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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

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Bleed Through
• Author: Michael Davidson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781566893398
• ISBN: 1566893399
• ID: 04815143
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Weight: 326 g
• Dimensions: 210 × 153 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. December 2013

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