Desire - Poems (Paperback, 1st pbk. ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 1999
First published:	March 1999
Authors:	Frank Bidart
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	61
Edition:	1st pbk. ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-374-52599-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-374-52599-4
Barcode:	9780374525996

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