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Praised in recent years as a calculating, improvisatory, essential poet by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, and as the foremost poetcritic of our time by Craig Dworkin, Charles Bernstein is a leading voice in American poetry. Near/Miss, Bernsteins first poetry collection in five years, is the apotheosis of his late style, thick with offcenter rhythms, hilarious riffs, and verbal extravagance.This collections title highlights poetrys 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 poetryproudly declaring itself a totally inaccessible poemand moves on to the stuff of contrarian pop culture and political cynicismfull 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 paintersincluding Amy Sillman, Rackstraw Downes, and Etel Adnanand 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.
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