Calvin Bedient's fourth collection, The Multiple, meets an
unspeakably excessive reality with an unremitting intensity of its
own. The "multiple" in question is the imbroglio of entwinements
and failed copulas within us and all around us, the reality
underlying and giving the lie to our stereotypes. Dazzlingly
resourceful--witty, multi-tonal, musical, propositional,
painterly--the poems thump the increasingly empty box of cultural
goods, an inheritance that isn't really ours. We are left with a
naked need for creativity in a cosmos whose gift of time is a gift
of chaos. If in a universe that is "not-one . . . the rhapsodic is
the avenue to the truth," as Alain Badiou says, the quality of the
rhapsodic in The Multiple is as cacophonous and unforgiving as it
is lyrical and hooked. The truth is extreme, this aggressively
uncensored book says, as it battles to give equal power to a savage
voice and a soaring voice. Strong in their invisible architecture,
these are poems of wild openness and sheer aliveness.
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