Charles Bernstein
Summer 2024 | Poetry
Three Poems
Betrayal
Unsavory people like him
Just want you to do things for them
Only to Swiftboat you in the end
Michael Davidson, Archiviste
The material pre-conditions abound as if to astound
Midst the flurry of putatively transient autopoiesis
Cathecting in boxes as the band plays cover versions
Of cover versions. Collected is not necessarily not
Neglected. But it holds hope like a porcelain vase
Tempers its inscription with repeated use.
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Charles Bernstein’s most recent books are Topsy-Turvy (2021) and Pitch of Poetry (2016), both from the University of Chicago Press. His work was the subject of The Poetry of Idiomatic Insistences, edited by Paul Bove, the Fall 2021 issue of boundary 2.