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Half-light collected poems 1965-2016

"The collected poems of the award winning American poet Frank Bidart"--

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Main Author:	Bidart, Frank, 1939- (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	American poetry > 20th century. American poetry > 21st century. Poetry.
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Summary:	"The collected poems of the award winning American poet Frank Bidart"-- Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His pages represent the human voice in all its extreme registers, whether it's that of the child-murderer Herbert White, the obsessive anorexic Ellen West, the tormented genius Vaslav Nijinsky, or the poet's own. And in that embodiment is a transgressive empathy, one that recognizes our wild appetites, the monsters, the misfits, the misunderstood among us and inside us. Few writers have so willingly ventured to the dark places of the human psyche and allowed themselves to be stripped bare on the page with such candor and vulnerability. Over the past half century, Bidart has done nothing less than invent a poetics commensurate with the chaos and appetites of our experience. Half-light encompasses all of Bidart's previous books, and also includes a new collection, Thirst, in which the poet austerely surveys his life, laying it plain for us before venturing into something new and unknown. Here Bidart finds himself a "Creature coterminous with thirst," still longing, still searching in himself, one of the "queers of the universe." Visionary and revelatory, intimate and unguarded, Bidart's Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2017 are a radical confrontation with human nature, a conflict eternally renewed and reframed, restless line by restless line.
Physical Description:	718 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780374125950 0374125953
Author Notes:	Frank Bidart was born in Bakersfield, California on May 27, 1939. He attended the University of California-Riverside and Harvard University. His first collection of poetry, Golden State, was published in 1973. His other collections of poetry included The Book of the Body, The Sacrifice, Star Dust, and Watching the Spring Festival. He received several awards including the Rebekka Bobbitt Prize for Desire, the National Books Critics Circle Award for Metaphysical Dog, and the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016. (Bowker Author Biography)