{"product_id":"9781566893398-bleed-through","title":"Bleed Through","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew and Selected Poems\u003cbr\u003eThe best of Davidson's forty-year career, these poems grapple with larger philosophical questions through the sieve of language and form.\u003cbr\u003eGhost 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55420525052278,"sku":"9781566893398","price":15.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28271786.jpg?v=1742884146","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781566893398-bleed-through","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}