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Book SynopsisAn 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, voices reek of the worlds from which they
emerge: different worlds, each with its all but palpable
aroma, its parameters, limitations, promise.
Wordsthere is 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, 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
