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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... shape or duration : their form is never determined in advance . Bidart's line is simply a mini- mum condition of appearance , a primary spatial unit that requires only that tone take shape on the page . Frost speaks of “ breaking the ...
... shapes , " lines from a Kris Kristofferson song ( " The Yoke " ) and the anonymous chants and commands of a phone - sex ... shape of Bidart's ambition and the current level of his ambitiousness , as well as indicating some possible direc ...
... shape cut by the arc of our lives . For Bidart , each life is an object like an artwork , and living is iden- tical with making . His image of the lifework - a " shape " that is “ cut ” —invokes sculpture , but it also calls to mind the ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Frank Bidarts Voice | 22 |
The Tumult in the Heart Keeps Asking Questions | 38 |
Urheberrecht | |
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