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Bidart, Frank, 1939-
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American poetry -- 20th century.
American poetry -- 21st century.
National Book Awards.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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Bidart, Frank, 1939-
American poetry -- 20th century.
American poetry -- 21st century.
National Book Awards.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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Half-light : collected poems 1965-2016 / Frank Bidart.
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Bidart, Frank, 1939-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2017.
Call #:
811
.54
B584h
Subjects
American poetry -- 20th century.
American poetry -- 21st century.
National Book Awards.
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
ISBN:
9780374125950 (hc)
0374125953 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
718 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
In the western night : poems 1965-90. In the western night : 1990 -- The sacrifice : 1983 -- The book of the body : 1977 -- Golden State : 1973 -- First hour of the night : 1990 -- Desire (1997) -- Star dust (2005). Music like dirt -- Watching the spring festival (2008) -- Metaphysical dog (2013) -- Thirst (new poems, 2016) -- Interviews [with]. Mark Halliday -- Adam Travis -- Shara Lessley.
Summary:
Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His pages represent the human voice in all its extreme registers, whether it's that of the child-murderer Herbert White, the obsessive anorexic Ellen West, the tormented genius Vaslav Nijinsky, or the poet's own. And in that embodiment is a transgressive empathy, one that recognizes our wild appetites, the monsters, the misfits, the misunderstood among us and inside us. Few writers have so willingly ventured to the dark places of the human psyche and allowed themselves to be stripped bare on the page with such candor and vulnerability. Over the past half century, Bidart has done nothing less than invent a poetics commensurate with the chaos and appetites of our experience. Half-light encompasses all of Bidart's previous books, and also includes a new collection, Thirst, in which the poet austerely surveys his life, laying it plain for us before venturing into something new and unknown. Here Bidart finds himself a "Creature coterminous with thirst," still longing, still searching in himself, one of the "queers of the universe." Visionary and revelatory, intimate and unguarded, Bidart's Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2017 are a radical confrontation with human nature, a conflict eternally renewed and reframed, restless line by restless line.
Awards:
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 2018.
Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, 2017.
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