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Book SynopsisOffers a full-length collection of poems that takes you 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. In these poems, the author makes good on his claim that 'the poetry is not in speaking to the dead but listening to the dead'.
Trade Review"The English word 'calculate' has a double life: in standard English it means to 'reckon' or 'intend' and in dialect it means 'to guess.' These contrary, wayward definitions-the first so full of certainty, the second so full of ironic doubt-shimmer and clash on every page of Charles Bernstein's obsessive, brilliant new book of poems, Recalculating. Through responses, translations, adaptations, and occasional pieces, through little hymns and tragic litanies, Bernstein measures and dreams a circle: a community of readers and writers who spin within a world built from the living history of words." -Susan Stewart"
