Desire: Poems - Paperback
by Frank Bidart
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plISBN-13:9780374525996ISBN-10:374525994UPC:9780374525996Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanAward:1998 Boston Book Review Winner - Poetry AwardSize:8.29 x 5.50 x 0.22 inchesWeight:0.21Product ID:SCWWVG1566
Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
I hate and--love. The sleepless body hammering a nail nails itself, hanging crucified.--from "Catullus: Excrucior" In Frank Bidart's collection of poems, the encounter with desire is the encounter with destiny. The first half contains some of Bidart's most luminous and intimate work-poems about the art of writing, Eros, and the desolations and mirror of history (in a spectacular narrative based on Tacitus). The second half of the book exts the overt lyricism of the opening section into even more ambitious territory-"The Second Hour of the Night" may be Bidart's most profound and complex meditation on the illusion of will, his most seductive dramatic poem to date. Desire is a 1997 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.Languages:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plISBN-13:9780374525996ISBN-10:374525994UPC:9780374525996Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanAward:1998 Boston Book Review Winner - Poetry AwardSize:8.29 x 5.50 x 0.22 inchesWeight:0.21Product ID:SCWWVG1566
Frank Bidart's poems are collected in In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 (FSG, 1990). In 1998 he won the Bobbitt Prize and received a Lannan Literary Fellowship. He teaches at Wellesley College.
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
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🏆 1998 Boston Book Review Winner - Poetry Award
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