Metaphysical dog / Frank Bidart.

Author/creator Bidart, Frank, 1939-
Format Book
EditionFirst edition.
PublicationNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Description113 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Uniform titlePoems. Selections
Contents Metaphysical dog -- Writing "Ellen West" -- Like -- Those nights -- Name the bed -- Queer -- History -- Hunger for the absolute -- Defrocked -- He is Ava Gardner -- Mourn -- The enterprise is abandoned -- Janáček at seventy -- Threnody on the death of Harriet Smithson -- Dream of the book -- Inauguration day -- Race -- Glutton -- Whitman -- Three tattoos -- As you crave soul -- Things falling from great heights -- O ruin o haunted -- Plea and chastisement -- Martha Yarnoz Bidart Hall -- Late Fairbanks -- Against rage -- For the AIDS dead -- Tyrant -- Mouth -- Rio -- Presage -- Elegy for earth -- Of his bones are coral made -- Poem ending with a sentence by Heath Ledger -- Dream reveals in neon the great addictions -- Ganymede -- On this earth where no secure foothold is -- For an unwritten opera.
Abstract Reflects what the poet sees as fundamental in human feeling, what psychologists and mystics have called the "hunger for the Absloute" - a hunger as any physical hunger. This hunger must confront the elusiveness of the Absolute, our self-deluding, failed glimpses of it.
General notePoems.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2012048069
ISBN9780374173616 (alk. paper)
ISBN0374173613 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS3552 .I33 M48 2013 ✔ Available Place Hold