{"product_id":"on-frank-bidart-liam-rector-9780472032006","title":"On Frank Bidart: Fastening the Voice to the Page","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrank Bidart has always defied expectation and convention without ever sounding conscious of such an effort or veering into self-parody. Bidart's poetry is often all at once deeply generous of spirit, terrifyingly beautiful, and verging on the ecstatic in its glimpse of great turbulence just beneath the surface. Rhythmically Bidart possesses an astute sense of the music of speech, both on the page and in the ear--proving again Frost's assertion that \"a dramatic necessity goes deep into the nature of the sentence.\" In the process Bidart forges a unique and uniquely American voice that combines, writes Seamus Heaney in one of this book's essays, \"a Dantesque severity with an immediacy of voice and a contemporaneity of idiom that [is] as alive to the resources of the tape-deck as it [is] to the tradition of \u003ci\u003eterza rima\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays from thirty-six poets and writers puts Bidart in perspective for his numerous longtime readers and is sure to draw new adherents to one of our greatest living poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors include: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSven Birkerts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Bishop\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Chabon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLouise Glück\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonald Hall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeamus Heaney\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Lehman \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Lowell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Pinsky\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdmund White\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand more\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Liam Rector\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472032003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472032006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.49h x 6.59w x 0.54d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2007 pg. 283","brand":"Liam Rector","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086692397311,"sku":"9780472032006","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ab1ee682-d840-4fe9-add4-0019c256f6f1.jpg?v=1769096060","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-frank-bidart-liam-rector-9780472032006","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}