Overview
Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. I hate and--love. The sleepless body hammering a nail nails itself, hanging crucified.--from "Catullus: Excrucior" In Frank Bidart's collection of poems, the encounter with desire is the encounter with destiny. The first half contains some of Bidart's most luminous and intimate work-poems about the art of writing, Eros, and the desolations and mirror of history (in a spectacular narrative based on Tacitus). The second half of the book exts the overt lyricism of the opening section into even more ambitious territory-"The Second Hour of the Night" may be Bidart's most profound and complex meditation on the illusion of will, his most seductive dramatic poem to date. Desire is a 1997 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.
- | Author: Frank Bidart
- | Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- | Publication Date: Mar 30, 1999
- | Number of Pages: 84 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0374525994
- | ISBN-13: 9780374525996
