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Article: Desire.(Book Review)
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- December 1, 1998
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Desire. By Frank Bidart. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. $20.00 (cl.)
Even from his first book, Golden State (1973), the American poet Frank Bidart had established his voice. In the preface to that book Richard Howard accurately described that voice as a "raised voice, the wounded utterance," whose "roots,'" says Howard thinking of Heidegger's essay Language, "are not in assent, which is silent, but in declaration, in contestation, which is the lesson of all speech." And when Bidart gives a reading--which is a special privilege to listen to--the pain of the poem that is the pain of the speaker that is the pain of the poet penetrates the intently ...
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