About this Item
This is a signed copy of the first edition, in excellent condition. In 2013, when this wonderful collection of his poetry came out, Frank Bidart signed a limited number of first editions to benefit The Threepenny Review, and we have a few left. Seller Inventory # 003790
Bibliographic Details
Title: Metaphysical Dog
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
A National Book 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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