Bleed Through: New and Selected Poems

By Michael Davidson

The best of Davidson's forty-year career, these poems grapple with larger philosophical questions through the sieve of language and form.

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566893399
• ISBN13: 9781566893398
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Coffee House Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.2"