9780374531720
Watching the Spring Festival
Frank Bidart
ISBN 13: 9780374531720
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Softcover
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This is Frank Bidart's first book of lyrics--his first book not dominated by long poems. Narrative elaboration 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 unlike anything seen before in Bidart's long career. Mortality--imminent, not theoretical--forces the self to question the relation between the actual life lived and what was once the promise of transformation. This plays out against a broad landscape. The book opens with Marilyn Monroe, followed by the glamour of the eighth-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. Bidart, winner of the 2007 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, is widely acknowledged as one of the significant poets of his time. This is perhaps his most accessible, mysterious, and austerely beautiful book.
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 poems are intense to the point of nearly setting the paper they're printed on aflame. Nothing short of paying superhuman, all-consuming attention to one's own thoughts tells as much about what it's like to live inside a contemporary mind."
Craig Morgan Teicher, Publishers Weekly, 01/05/2009
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