Bibliophilia of Charles Bernstein’s Poems – “The Introvert”
The author’s acoustic illustrations activate the poem and the entire book with sound, which can be sampled by touch of the fingers.
Charles Bernstein
https://www.granarybooks.com/pages/books/2994/charles-bernstein-jiri-cernicky/the-introvert
Twelve unbound folios in a printed paper cover, 10 x 13 in. Handset in Garamond and printed letterpress on Rives BFK paper. Text by Bernstein, with original artwork in the form of intermedia components (titled “who takes the pulse of our hidden thoughts”) by Czech artist Cernicky. These components include small sensors, microphones, and battery-powered circuits, which play quiet music, emit crackling sounds, and amplify the sound of fingers on the page.
In the style of publisher Gervais Jassaud’s other Collectif Génération verbal/visual collaborations, the text and design are identical in each volume, yet each book contains a different artist’s unique and original artworks as illustration.
https://www.granarybooks.com/pages/books/2994/charles-bernstein-jiri-cernicky/the-introvert
