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Charles Bernstein is a leading voice in American poetry. Near/Miss, Bernstein’s first poetry collection in five years, is the apotheosis of his late style, thick with off-center rhythms, hilarious riffs, and verbal extravagance. This collection’s title highlights poetry’s ability to graze reality without killing it, and at the same time, implies that the poems themselves are wounded by the grief of loss. Performed by the poet, the book opens with a rollicking satire of difficult poetry and moves on to the stuff of contrarian pop culture and political cynicism.

Maupassant es, junto a Chèjov, el más importante autor de cuentos y relatos del siglo XIX Escribió más de 300 relatos y cinco novelas. Son especialmente destacables sus cuentos de terror, género en el que es reconocido como maestro, a la altura de Edgar Allan Poe.