9780374286033
Watching the Spring Festival
Frank Bidart
ISBN 13: 9780374286033
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hardcover
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A first collection of lyrics by the Bollingen Prize-winning author of
Review:
"Bidart's tone is oracular and austere but always intimate. Full of rage even when most melancholy or sweet, his voice leaps off the page toward his subjects, and toward the reader."
Chicago Tribune, 10/19/2008
Review:"Bidart's art is at its most powerful when it points away from meaning and approaches the unspeakable."
Time Out (New York), 07/03/2008
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Book Description: FSG. 1 Cloth(s), 2007. hard. Book Condition: New. This is Frank Bidart's first book of lyrics, and the first book by the Bollingen Prize winner that is not dominated by long poems. Narrative elaboration here becomes speed and song. Less embattled than earlier work, less actively violent, these new poems have, by conceding time's finalities and triumphs, acquired a dark radiance that is new in Bidart's long career. The book opens with Marilyn Monroe, followed by the glamour of the 8th-century Chinese imperial court (seen through the eyes of one of China's greatest poets, Tu Fu). At the center of the book is an ambitious meditation on the Russian ballerina Ulanova, 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. 58. Bookseller Inventory # 11930 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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