{"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Bidart \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of many collections of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eMetaphysical Dog, Watching the Spring Festival, Star Dust, Desire\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-1990\u003c\/i\u003e. He has won many prizes, including the Wallace Stevens Award, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His book \u003ci\u003eHalf-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize and the 2017 National Book Award. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50660908302610,"sku":"9780374606473","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f2ce9448-9fc5-4af8-a6f2-9d6f54819fa6.jpg?v=1733479071","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/against-silence-poems-9780374606473","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}