9780374525996
Desire
Frank Bidart
ISBN 13: 9780374525996
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Softcover
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Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. 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 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.
Review:
"...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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