| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
60 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"An urgent new collection from Frank Bidart, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Bidart writes of the cycles we cannot escape and the feelings we cannot forget"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"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, 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 old cruelties enacted. Moving among the dead and the living, the figures of his life and of his past, Bidart calls reality forth -- with nothing settled and nothing forgotten, we must speak." -- From publisher's description. |
| Contents |
Part One. Why the Dead Cannot Answer -- At the Shore -- Mourning What We Thought We Were -- Words Reek Worlds -- The Moral Arc of the Universe Bends Toward Justice -- Behind the Lion -- The Fifth Hour of the Night -- Part Two. The Ghost -- Poem with a Refrain from LeRoy Chatfield -- The Great, the One Subject -- Poem Beginning With Words by Lisel Mueller -- Dialogue With Flesh -- Coda -- On My Seventy-Eighth. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9780374603519 (hardcover) |
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0374603510 (hardcover) |
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