Half-light : collected poems 1965-2016 / Frank Bidart.
2017
PS3552.I33 A6 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
Half-light : collected poems 1965-2016 / Frank Bidart.
Author
Bidart, Frank, 1939- author.
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Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780374125950 (hardcover)
0374125953 (hardcover)
9780374715182 (electronic book)
0374125953 (hardcover)
9780374715182 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Language
English
Description
718 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number
PS3552.I33 A6 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
811/.54
Summary
"The collected poems of the award winning American poet Frank Bidart"-- Provided by publisher.
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.
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Awards
National Book Award, 2017.
Pulitzer Prize, 2018.
Pulitzer Prize, 2018.
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Table of Contents
Western night : poems 1965-90. In the western night : 1990
Sacrifice : 1983
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). Hunger for the absolute
History is a series of failed revelations
Thirst (new poems, 2016)
Interviews [with]. Mark Halliday
Adam Travis
Shara Lessley.
Sacrifice : 1983
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). Hunger for the absolute
History is a series of failed revelations
Thirst (new poems, 2016)
Interviews [with]. Mark Halliday
Adam Travis
Shara Lessley.