Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016

WINNER OF THE 2018 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY The collected works of one of contemporary poetryÆs most original voices 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 itÆs that of the child-murderer Herbert White, the obsessive anorexic Ellen West, the tormented genius Vaslav Nijinsky, or the poetÆs 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 BidartÆs 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 ôCreature coterminous with thirst,ö still longing, still searching in himself, one of the ôqueers of the universe.ö Visionary and revelatory, intimate and unguarded, BidartÆs Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2017 are a radical confrontation with human nature, a conflict eternally renewed and reframed, restless line by restless line.

• | Author: Frank Bidart
• | Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux
• | Publication Date: Aug 21, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 736 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Poetry
• | ISBN-10: 0374537690
• | ISBN-13: 9780374537692