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15%OFFCalvin Bedient - The Multiple - 9781890650667 - V9781890650667
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The Multiple

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Description for The Multiple Paperback.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Omnidawn Publishing United States
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Richmond, CA, United States
ISBN
9781890650667
SKU
V9781890650667
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Reviews for The Multiple
"Always happiest shifting tonal and emotional gears at wrenching speeds, and always honest (and gutsy) enough to let the ugliest and most unsettling faces of eros peak through the strings of his lyre, Bedient asks us, in this newest volume, to awaken yet further to the hard ancient truth of the plucked string, to the sweet and sour overtones of ... Read more

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