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    ( ‘THE DIFFICULT POEM ‘By Charles Bemstein. Bernstein read this ‘essay on September 9a the New School's _sraduate writing program in New York ity. His mast recent collection of poems ‘With Strings, published bythe University of Chicago Press. 1 of us from time to time encounter a dificult poem. Sometimes itis the Pocm ofa friend or a family member, and sometimes it isa poem we have writen ‘ourselves. The difficult poem bas created distress for both poets and readers for ‘many years. Experts who study difficult ‘poems often trace the modem prevalence ofthis problem tothe early years ofthe last century, when a great deal of social Aislocation precipitated the outbreak of 1912, one ofthe best-known epidemics of

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