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Bleed Through: New and Selected Poems
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Bleed Through: New and Selected Poems
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Ghost textsthe overheard conversation, the remembered line, the daily paperclamor to enter the poems in Michael Davidson’s
. 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 modelsvoice, ear, rhyme, rhythm, textupon which poetry depends and takes as his subject the problems and questions of our cultural history.