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Farrar Strauss Desire Farrar Strauss by Frank Bidart
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 Bidarts collection of poems the encounter with desire is the encounter with destiny. The first half contains some of Bidarts 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 Bidarts 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.show more