"In the Western Night" brings together in one volume all of the poems to date, including many previously unpublished poems, of one of the most exciting and gifted poets writing today.
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Poems contemplate the art of writing, Eros, the desolations of history, and the illusion of will
The first full collection of Robert Lowell's work introduces readers to the literary genius of the nation's most important postwar poet, including several never-before-anthologized poems, with works frorm Land of Unlikeness, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lord Weary's Castle, and Day by Day, his final b[...]
In 2002, Frank Bidart published a sequence of poems, "Music Like Dirt," the first chapbook ever to be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. From the beginning, he had conceived this sequence as the opening movement in a larger structure--now, with "Star Dust," finally complete.
In this profound and[...]
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 [...]
In "Those Nights," Frank Bidart writes: "We who could get / somewhere through / words through / sex could not." Words and sex, art and flesh: In Metaphysical Dog, Bidart explores their nexus. The result stands among this deeply adventurous poet's most powerful and achieved work, an emotionally naked[...]