Recalculating - Hardcover

Bernstein, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226925285 ISBN 13: 9780226925288

Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2013

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Long anticipated, Recalculating is Charles Bernstein’s first full-length collection of new poems in seven years. As a result of this lengthy time under construction, the scope, scale, and stylistic variation of the poems far surpasses Bernstein’s previous work. Together, the poems of Recalculating take readers on a journey through the history and poetics of the decades since the end of the Cold War as seen through the lens of social and personal turbulence and tragedy.

 

The collection’s title, the now–familiar GPS expression, suggests a change in direction due to a mistaken or unexpected turn. For Bernstein, formal invention is a necessary swerve in the midst of difficulty. As in all his work since the 1970s, he makes palpable the idea that radically new structures, appropriated forms, an aversion to received ideas and conventions, political engagement, and syntactic novelty will open the doors of perception to exuberance and resonance, from giddiness to pleasure to grief. But at the same time he cautions, with typical deflationary ardor, “The pen is tinier than the sword.” In these poems, Bernstein makes good on his claim that “the poetry is not in speaking to the dead but listening to the dead.” In doing so, Recalculating incorporates translations and adaptations of Baudelaire, Cole Porter, Mandelstam, and Paul Celan, as well as several tributes to writers crucial to Bernstein’s work and a set of epigrammatic verse essays that combine poetics with wry observation, caustic satire, and aesthetic slapstick.

 

Formally stunning and emotionally charged, Recalculating makes the familiar strange—and in a startling way, makes the strange familiar. Into these poems, brimming with sonic and rhythmic intensity, philosophical wit, and multiple personae, life events intrude, breaking down any easy distinction between artifice and the real. With works that range from elegy to comedy, conceptual to metrical, expressionist to ambient, uproarious to procedural, aphoristic to lyric, Bernstein has created a journey through the dark striated by bolts of imaginative invention and pure delight. 

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Charles Bernstein lives in New York and is the Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as coeditor of  L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, the Electronic Poetry Center, and PennSound and cofounder of the SUNY-Buffalo Poetics Program. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among his many publications are three books also published by the University of Chicago Press: Girly Man, With Strings, and My Way: Speeches and Poems.

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RECALCULATING

By CHARLES BERNSTEIN

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Copyright © 2013 Charles Bernstein
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ISBN: 978-0-226-92528-8

Contents

Autopsychographia...........................................................................3The Truth in Pudding........................................................................4Poem Loading................................................................................12Talk to Me..................................................................................13From Stone..................................................................................28Sane as Tugged Vat, Your Love...............................................................29Two Stones with One Bird....................................................................30Sad Boy's Sad Boy...........................................................................31Design......................................................................................32Blue Tile...................................................................................33The Honor of Virtue.........................................................................34Blown Wind..................................................................................35The Duck Hunters............................................................................36Loneliness in Linden........................................................................37Umbra.......................................................................................38Dea%r Fr~ien%d..............................................................................39Fold........................................................................................40Ku(na)hay...................................................................................415 for MP....................................................................................43Brush Up Your Chaucer.......................................................................46The Importance of Being Bob.................................................................49Every True Religion Is Bound to Fail........................................................51The Twelve Tribes of Dr. Lacan..............................................................52Do Not Desensitize..........................................................................53Sea Drift...................................................................................54On Election Day.............................................................................55Last Words..................................................................................57Pompeii.....................................................................................65I will not write imitative poetry...........................................................66All Set.....................................................................................67The Sixties, with Apologies.................................................................68Prose.......................................................................................69Not on My Watch.............................................................................70In Res Robin, Nibor Resalb Inscripsit Mentastrum (XXC)......................................71Stupid Men, Smart Choices...................................................................72Lenny Paschen Redux.........................................................................73Trouble near Me.............................................................................74Later.......................................................................................76Irreconcilable Disrepair....................................................................77sorrow where there is no pain...............................................................78A Theory's Evolution........................................................................79Todtnauberg.................................................................................80How Empty Is My Bread Pudding...............................................................81["There once was a Young Woman of Whitechapel"].............................................92Transegmental Drift.........................................................................93Incantation by Laughter.....................................................................94Great Moments in Taches Blanches............................................................95You Say Insipid, I Say Inscripsit...........................................................99["To empty earth falling unwilled"].........................................................100A Long Time 'til Yesterday..................................................................101Joint Dark Energy Mission...................................................................102To a Begging Redhead........................................................................105The Moment Is You...........................................................................108This Poem Is in Finnish.....................................................................110Breathtails.................................................................................111The Jew.....................................................................................120Manifest Aversions, Conceptual Conundrums, & Implausibly Deniable Links.....................123And Aenigma Was His Name, O!................................................................127Armed Stasis................................................................................128Unready, Unwilling, Unable..................................................................129Recipe for Disaster.........................................................................134After Leminski..............................................................................135Catullus 85.................................................................................136Psychology of Composition (VII).............................................................137Venereal Muse...............................................................................138Poems for Rehab.............................................................................139Won't You Give Up This Poem to Someone Who Needs It?........................................140The Most Frequent Words in Girly Man........................................................141Death on a Pale Horse.......................................................................153Up High Down Low Too Slow (2)...............................................................154Charon's Boat...............................................................................155If You Say Something, See Something.........................................................156["Tomorrow, dawn"]..........................................................................157Today Is the Last Day of Your Life 'til Now.................................................158Time Served.................................................................................159Synchronicity All Over Again................................................................160Le pont Mirabeau............................................................................161Morality....................................................................................162The...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of Chicago Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0226925285
• ISBN 13: 9780226925288
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 189
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