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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
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Davidson, Michael
- ISBN: 9781566893398
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.20 x 0.80
- Number Of Pages: 237
- Publication Year: 2013
Language:
English