Against Silence
by Frank Bidart
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. 63 pages.
Poetry
Words—there is a gap, nonetheless always
and forever, between words and the world—
In Against Silence, the Pulitzer Prize winner's eleventh collection of poetry, Bidart Writes of the cycles we cannot escape and the feelings we cannot forget. These bitesize poems make for a quick read, but they take a while to digest. Bidart writes about aging and death, memories, and the cycles we cannot escape, the feelings we cannot forget.
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