Desire: Poems
MIA KARTS BOOKS
Book details
- Author
- Frank Bidart
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus and Giroux
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- United States
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780374525996
- ISBN-10
- 0374525994
- Vendor: Mia Karts
Desire: Poems
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ISBN: 0374525994
Author: Bidart, Frank
Condition: New
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.
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