The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of TinLogan, William
9780374138240
Desire
Frank Bidart
ISBN 10: 0374138249 / 0-374-13824-9
ISBN 13: 9780374138240
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 13: 9780374138240
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
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In Frank Bidart's new 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: its range is as wide as its unifying theme is specific. Here are lyrics of heartbreaking directness and candor, including 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 extends 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.
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"...Bidart's main achievement is to have developed a style--erratic, unstable, the sound of the speaking voice as it cracks--that can accommodate his wild narrators....Bidart identifies with the deep, violent struggle of his narrators, and tries to make his readers identify with it, too. To a considerable extent, he succeeds."
Adam Kirsch, New Republic, 10/27/1997
Review:"It is, in a sense, the worst case that could be made against desire: Sex makes people miserable; it leads them to destroy others and themselves. Yet Bidart converts his poem into an affirmation of embodied love....That it is a gay man who has created this book, many years into the age of AIDS, makes the balm a little more bitter, a little more sweet."
Langdon Hammer, Nation, 11/24/1997
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