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Attacking his subject matter with fierce precision, confronting the world on the same tough terms as an investigative journalist would, Breskin traverses the globe in search of the conjunctions and elisions that reveal the world. His poems go into all the darkened interstitial spaces, and crack them and lever them wide apart: scary, open, free. 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An ex-journalist, Breskin set out to cover this most strange and historic election, under the pressure of a reporter's daily deadline, by writing one poem a day. He created a deliberately awkward, rollickingly restrictive form - seven beats per line, 11 lines per poem - and, noting our preference for the convenience of sound-bite news and junk-food polls over more nutritious fare, called them 7-11s. The result is \u003ci\u003eCampaign\u003c\/i\u003e, a fierce, prescient, oddly moving and scathingly funny book. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo one is spared (not Ted, not Marco, not Carly, not Hillary nor Bernie nor The Donald, not the Pope nor Scalia nor even Jeb ) as Breskin shines a searching light on the hubris and folly of our would-be leaders. Yet he also captures what is fine about America and Americans, even under siege. 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