Against Silence Poems
Against Silence Poems by Frank Bidart is a new collection published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in November 2022. This edition features 80 pages of poetry that explores the complexities of the inner self and the intricate relationships between words and the world. Bidart, a Pulitzer Prize winner, delves into themes of memory, history, and the emotional cycles that shape human experience.
In this collection, Bidart presents a tapestry of voices and memories, reflecting on the interplay of love and hate, as well as the enduring impact of past cruelties. The poems navigate the tension between the living and the dead, revealing a landscape where nothing is settled and everything is intertwined. Readers will find a profound examination of the human condition, marked by Bidart’s distinctive style and insight into the nuances of language and emotion.
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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.
Words—there is a gap, nonetheless always
and forever, between words and the world—
slip, slide, are imprecise, BLIND, perish.
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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 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.
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