Praised in recent years as a "calculating, improvisatory, essential
poet" by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, and as "the foremost
poet-critic of our time" by Craig Dworkin, Charles Bernstein is a
leading voice in American poetry. Near/Miss, Bernstein's first
poetry collection in five years, is the apotheosis of his late
style, thick with off-center rhythms, hilarious riffs, and verbal
extravagance. This collection's title highlights poetry's ability
to graze reality without killing it, and at the same time implies
that the poems themselves are wounded by the grief of loss. The
book opens with a rollicking satire of difficult poetry-proudly
declaring itself "a totally inaccessible poem"-and moves on to the
stuff of contrarian pop culture and political cynicism-full of
malaprops, mondegreens, nonsequiturs, translations of translations,
sardonically vandalized signs, and a hilarious yet sinister feed of
blog comments. At the same time, political protest also rubs up
against epic collage, through poems exploring the unexpected
intimacies and continuities of "our united fates." These poems
engage with works by contemporary painters-including Amy Sillman,
Rackstraw Downes, and Etel Adnan-and echo translations of poets
ranging from Catullus and Virgil to Goethe, Cruz e Souza, and
Kandinsky. Grounded in a politics of multiplicity and dissent, and
replete with both sharp edges and subtle intimacies, Near/Miss is
full of close encounters of every kind.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2018 |
| Authors: |
Charles Bernstein
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
192 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-57069-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-226-57069-X |
| Barcode: |
9780226570693 |
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