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MINESWEEPER IBD

NEW MICHIGAN PRESS
02 / 2023
9781934832899
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Sinopsis

Minesweeper is not only poetry, but an exceptional pieceáof art of extraordinary caliber. Minesweeper sweeps us off ouráfeet with its state-of-the-art bilingual-hyphenated, prepotentáfield of precocity and its intense algorithmic / microchipicátenderness / terseness / ingemination. ItâÇÖs so supremely well-balanced, so playful, so brilliant. While breaking our hearts with piquant line breaks, Jed Munson relentlessly surprises us with his accelerated gravity of recombineable, scrabblic,ávulnerable inventions and cataclysmic candidness. It is aáchapbook that defies our limitations and flourishes withádynamic, energetic wit. -VI KHI NAO'Do not forget,' Wittgenstein once cautioned, 'that a poem, even though it is composed in the language of information, is not usedáin the language-game of giving information.' One would never forget such a thing when reading Jed MunsonâÇÖs ludic lucubrations, which are as razor-sharp as they are full of risk and rambunctiousness. Engaging with MunsonâÇÖs Minesweeper is to get swept up in a poetics of polyglot playfulness. When the odds are stacked against us, it is heartening to know that there is a fine newáplayer in town. Game on. -MICHAEL LEONGJed MunsonâÇÖs poems in Minesweeper get the far outápresent, the present present, the remembered present,á& the shadow present, at minimum, together freaking the scene and sensed. They make rhythm and interruption be bound to one another as a multi-lingualárecord of consciousness, and this happens across aárange of tones, textures, and forms in space constantlyámoving. I dig their angry and amused pleasure ináhandling and unhandling the steady intermittenceáof listening.á-ANSELM BERRIGAN[Winner of the 2022 DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press Chapbook Contest]

PVP
9,05