| Bleed Through: New and Selected Poems Contributor(s): Davidson, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1566893399 ISBN-13: 9781566893398 Publisher: Coffee House Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Literary Collections | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2013003666 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.2" (0.70 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Physically Challenged |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. From The Second City: in the second cityI live out the dream of the firstliving neither for its access and glamour nor dying from its disregardsimply talking towards the twin spiresof an ancient cathedrallike a person becoming like a person |