A National Book Award FinalistA National Book Critics Circle Award
Finalist A vital, searching new collection from one of finest
American poets at work today In Those Nights, Frank Bidart writes:
We who could get / somewhere through / words through / sex could
not. Words and sex, art and flesh: In Metaphysical Dog, Bidart
explores their nexus. The result stands among this deeply
adventurous poet's most powerful and achieved work, an emotionally
naked, fearlessly candid journey through many of the central axes,
the central conflicts, of his life, and ours. Near the end of the
book, Bidart writes: In adolescence, you thought your work ancient
work: to decipher at last human beings' relation to God. Decipher
love. To make what was once whole whole again: or to see why it
never should have been thought whole. This ancient work reflects
what the poet sees as fundamental in human feeling, what
psychologists and mystics have called the hunger for the
Absolute--a hunger as fundamental as any physical hunger. This
hunger must confront the elusiveness of the Absolute, our
self-deluding, failed glimpses of it. The third section of the book
is titled History is a series of failed revelations. The result is
one of the most fascinating and ambitious books of poetry in many
years. One of Publishers Weekly's Best Poetry Books of 2013 A New
York Times Notable Book of 2013 An NPR Best Book of 2013
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