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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, 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

Against Silence

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
      Published 1 November 2022
      ISBN-13 9780374606473
      978-0374606473
      ISBN-10 0374606471

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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, 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

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