AGAINST SILENCE

For more than fifty years, Frank Bidart has given voice to the inner self, to the depths of his own psyche and the unforgettable cha racters that populate his poems. In Against Silence, the Pulitzer Prize winners eleventh collection of poetry, he urges others to j oin the chorus. Bidart writes of the cycles we cannot escape and the feelings we cannot forget. Our history is not a tabula rasa, bu t a repeating, refining story of love and hate, of words spoken and cruelties enacted. Moving among the dead and the living, the fig ures of h...[Read more]