false 186655 1 0 1102012 0374269734 9780374269739 14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180995681m/1102012.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180995681s/1102012.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1102012.Star_Dust_Poems 4.04 115 Music Like Dirt, the first chapbook ever to be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. From the beginning, he had conceived this sequence as the opening movement in a larger structure--now, with Star Dust, finally complete.

Throughout his work, Bidart has been uniquely alert to the dramatic possibilities of violence; in this, and in his sense of theater, he resembles the great Jacobean dramatists. It is no accident that Webster's plays echo in "The Third Hour of the Night," the brilliant long poem that dominates the second half of Star Dust. Bidart locates in Benvenuto Cellini the speaker truest to his own vision. Who better to speak of the drive to create, not as reverie or pleasure or afterthought, but as task and burden, thwarted by the world? In its scale, sonorities, extraordinary leaps, and juxtapositions, "The Third Hour of the Night" makes an astonishing counterbalance to the intense, spare lyrics that precede it.

In this profound and unforgettable new book, the dream beyond desire (which now seems to represent human destiny) is rooted in the drive to create, a drive tormented at every stage by failure, as the temporal being fights for its survival by making an eternal life. Bidart is a poet of passionate originality, and Star Dust shows that the forms of this originality continue to deepen and change as he constantly renews his contract with the idea of truth.
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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.
]]> 186655 4.10 480 44 1997 404566 0374522715 9780374522711 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174463084m/404566.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174463084s/404566.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/404566.In_the_Western_Night_Collected_Poems_1965_1990 4.22 91 In the Western Night brings together in one volume all of the poems to date, including many previously unpublished poems, of one of the most exciting and gifted poets writing today.
]]> 186655 4.10 480 44 1990 2625849 0374286035 9780374286033 10 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2625849.Watching_the_Spring_Festival_Poems 4.06 48 Giselle, and the nature of tragedy. All this gives new dimension and poignance to Bidart’s recurring preoccupation with the human need to leave behind some record or emblem, a made thing that stands, in the face of death, for the possibilities of art.</div><div> </div><div>Bidart, winner of the 2007 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, is widely acknowledged as one of the significant poets of his time. This is perhaps his most accessible, mysterious, and austerely beautiful book.</div></div>]]> 186655 4.10 480 44 2008 404703 1889330787 9781889330785 1 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174463766m/404703.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174463766s/404703.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/404703.Music_Like_Dirt 4.18 45 His work has been, from the start, remarkable in its disdain for the soothing, the sentimental, the facile, the partial. He is, in the feeling of our jury, one of the great poets of our time."

]]> 186655 4.10 480 44 2002 404704 0571120180 9780571120185 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/404704.The_Book_of_the_Body 4.64 11 186655 4.10 480 44 1979 669431 0807606766 9780807606766 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669431.Golden_State 4.30 10 186655 4.10 480 44 1973 669536 0394716388 9780394716381 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/669536.The_sacrifice 4.29 7 186655 4.10 480 44 1983