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Bleed Through: New and Selected Poems

Bleed Through: New and Selected Poems

Davidson, Michael

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ISBN10: 1566893399
ISBN13: 9781566893398
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: Dec 3 2013
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
The best of Davidson's forty-year career, these poems grapple with larger philosophical questions through the sieve of language and form.

Ghost texts--the overheard conversation, the remembered line, the daily paper--clamor to enter the poems in Michael Davidson's Bleed Through. Here, the page is a plane for working out aesthetic problems, engaging the reader's intellect and love of beauty. Each new word or phrase calls forth another; attentions create their own nimbus of associations. Davidson's poems are a kind of battleground, where larger philosophical questions are grappled with through the sieve of language and form, but they are also a response to the vital use people make of everyday speech. Faced with hearing loss, he questions the acoustical models--voice, ear, rhyme, rhythm, text--upon which poetry depends and takes as his subject the problems and questions of our cultural history.

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