On Frank Bidart: Fastening the Voice to the PageLiam Rector, Tree Swenson University of Michigan Press, 2007 - 216 Seiten Frank Bidart has always defied expectation and convention without ever sounding conscious of such an effort or veering into self-parody. Bidart's poetry is often all at once deeply generous of spirit, terrifyingly beautiful, and verging on the ecstatic in its glimpse of great turbulence just beneath the surface. Rhythmically Bidart possesses an astute sense of the music of speech, both on the page and in the ear--proving again Frost's assertion that "a dramatic necessity goes deep into the nature of the sentence." In the process Bidart forges a unique and uniquely American voice that combines, writes Seamus Heaney in one of this book's essays, "a Dantesque severity with an immediacy of voice and a contemporaneity of idiom that [is] as alive to the resources of the tape-deck as it [is] to the tradition of terza rima." This collection of essays from thirty-six poets and writers puts Bidart in perspective for his numerous longtime readers and is sure to draw new adherents to one of our greatest living poets. Contributors include: Sven Birkerts Elizabeth Bishop Michael Chabon Louise Glück Donald Hall Seamus Heaney David Lehman Robert Lowell Robert Pinsky Edmund White and more |
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... poem , and it happens to the poet's tone of voice . When the poem begins in italics , that typeface marks the lines off not only from ordinary language ( the white space that frames any poem does that ) ; it marks them off from the ...
... Poems , 1965–1990 concluded with a long poem called " The First Hour of the Night . " A companion poem , " The Second Hour of the Night , " appeared at the end of the book Desire , published in 1997. That these poems were linked in the ...
... poem , gram- matical and otherwise . This is not just clever wordplay . Dramatically , the poem is a cir- cle , as a first glance at the syntax suggests : the same actions cycle ad infinitum , giving the lie to the illusion of ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Frank Bidarts Voice | 22 |
The Tumult in the Heart Keeps Asking Questions | 38 |
Urheberrecht | |
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