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Against Silence: Poems

By Frank Bidart
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By Frank Bidart
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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.

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