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Desire: Poems

Desire: Poems

Bidart, Frank

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $15.00

ISBN10: 0374525994
ISBN13: 9780374525996
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Mar 30 1999
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.22 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.29
Language: English
Awards: Boston Book Review

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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