Metaphysical dog / Frank Bidart.
| Author/creator | Bidart, Frank, 1939- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. |
| Description | 113 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Poems. 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 note | Poems. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2012048069 |
| ISBN | 9780374173616 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0374173613 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS3552 .I33 M48 2013 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |