{"product_id":"against-silence-poems-9780374606473","title":"Against Silence: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn 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) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWords, voices reek of the worlds from which they\u003cbr\u003eemerge: different worlds, each with its all but palpable\u003cbr\u003earoma, its parameters, limitations, promise. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWords--there is a gap, nonetheless always\u003cbr\u003eand forever, between words and the world-- \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eslip, slide, are imprecise, BLIND, perish.\u003cbr\u003e -\u003cbr\u003eSet up a situation, --\u003cbr\u003e. . . then reveal an abyss. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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 \u003ci\u003eAgainst Silence\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374606473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80","brand":"Frank Bidart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42362477576373,"sku":"9780374606473","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_840e9882-3b5b-4909-b7aa-b894ee6853c4.jpg?v=1662436009","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/against-silence-poems-9780374606473","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}