{"product_id":"minesweeper-9781934832899","title":"Minesweeper","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jed Munson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: New Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: New Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: American - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMinesweeper\u003c\/em\u003e is not only poetry, but an exceptional piece of art of extraordinary caliber. \u003cem\u003eMinesweeper \u003c\/em\u003esweeps us off our feet with its state-of-the-art bilingual-hyphenated, prepotent field of precocity and its intense algorithmic \/ microchipic tenderness \/ terseness \/ ingemination. It's 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, vulnerable inventions and cataclysmic candidness. It is a chapbook that defies our limitations and flourishes with dynamic, energetic wit. -\u003cstrong\u003eVI KHI NAO\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Do not forget,\" Wittgenstein once cautioned, \"that a poem, even though it is composed in the language of information, is not used in the language-game of giving information.\" One would never forget such a thing when reading Jed Munson's ludic lucubrations, which are as razor-sharp as they are full of risk and rambunctiousness. Engaging with Munson's \u003cem\u003eMinesweeper\u003c\/em\u003e 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 new player in town. Game on. -\u003cstrong\u003eMICHAEL LEONG\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJed Munson's poems in \u003cem\u003eMinesweeper \u003c\/em\u003eget the far out present, the present present, the remembered present, \u0026amp; the shadow present, at minimum, together freaking the scene and sensed. They make rhythm and interruption be bound to one another as a multi-lingual record of consciousness, and this happens across a range of tones, textures, and forms in space constantly moving. I dig their angry and amused pleasure in handling and unhandling the steady intermittence of listening. -\u003cstrong\u003eANSELM BERRIGAN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Winner of the 2022 \u003cem\u003eDIAGRAM\u003c\/em\u003e\/New Michigan Press Chapbook Contest]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46376654012567,"sku":"9781934832899","price":825.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781934832899.webp?v=1768758812","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/minesweeper-9781934832899","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}