Desire - by Frank Bidart (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. <p/>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. <p/><i>Desire</i> is a 1997 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"[<i>Desire</i>] is insightful, disturbing, complex, personal, painstaking, and driven. Almost no poet since Robert Lowell . . . has written verse that so successfully exemplifies these qualities." --<i>Stephen Burt, The New Leader</i> <p/>"Cementing his reputation as a poet of astonishing originality, Bidart revisits classical encounters--the aftermath of a battle described by Tacitus, an incestuous romance in Ovid--and fashions them into a poetic idiom uniquely his own." --<i>David Lehman, People</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Frank Bidart's</b> poems are collected in<i> In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 </i>(FSG, 1990). In 1998 he won the Bobbitt Prize and received a Lannan Literary Fellowship. He teaches at Wellesley College.</p>
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