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Dodging
Paperback
Publisher Price: $26.00
ISBN13: 9780226856803
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Apr 23 2027
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.00
Language: English
A new, expansive collection by one of the most provocative and inventive poets of our time.
In Dodging, Charles Bernstein pushes his poetics toward new kinds of formal and tonal attentions. This multifaceted work brings together comic velocity, pointed political critique, and passages of lyric intensity. Bernstein calls these poems too late written late in life as irreversibility presses against reflection, regret, and renewed resistance--a situation in which dodging is not evasion but survival, a way of moving through political catastrophe and personal loss without being silenced by either.
The collection unfolds in three interrelated fits--a term suggesting bursts of composition, rhythmic surges, and formal groupings--titled Dodging, Struggle, and Reflection. These sections move from a series of flashes and fragments, then to assembled riffs and collaborations with poet Tracie Morris, and finally turn to refractions and aphorisms that embrace active contradiction. Together they trace a shifting field of contrasts: between satire and elegy, volatility and concentration, comedy and grief.
Both fundamentally true to Bernstein's voice and radically radiant in its range, Dodging is a work that moves restlessly across forms and tones--by turns sly, searching, and unguarded, where humor and grief occupy the same ground.
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