Against Silence

Poems

Against Silence
Frank Bidart
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1 Nov 2022
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9780374606473
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An urgent new collection from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and "one of the undisputed master poets of our time" (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR)Words, images reek of the worlds from which theyemerge: different worlds, each with its all but palpablearoma, its parameters, limitations, promise. Words-a gap, nonetheless always and forever,between words and the world-slip, slide, are imprecise, BLIND, perish. Set up a situation,-. . . then reveal an abyss. For more than fifty years, Frank Bidart has given voice to the inner self, to the depths of his own psyche and the unforgettable characters that populate his poems. In Against Silence, the Pulitzer Prize winner' s eleventh collection of poetry, he urges others to join the chorus. Bidart writes of the cycles we cannot escape and the feelings we cannot forget. Our history is not a tabula rasa, but a repeating, refining story of love and hate, of words spoken and cruelties enacted. Moving among the dead and the living, the figures of his life and of his past, Bidart calls forth-with nothing settled and nothing forgotten, we must speak.
Frank Bidart is a gift--we are lucky to have had him writing poetry for a half century. Against Silence is his eleventh collection, and continues his lifelong navigation of the uncertain spaces between haunting and love, and the fertile gap between words and the world. --Jonny Diamond, Lit HubAnother memorable contribution to Bidart' s oeuvre. --Publishers Weekly
Frank Bidart is the author of ten collections of poetry, including Metaphysical Dog, Watching the Spring Festival, Star Dust, Desire, and In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90. He has won many prizes, including the Wallace Stevens Award, the Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize and the 2017 National Book Award. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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ISBN-13: 9780374606473
Published: 1 Nov 2022
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Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 137mm
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
Pages: 80

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