Metaphysical Dog - Couverture rigide

Bidart, Frank

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0374173613 ISBN 13 : 9780374173616

Editeur : Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2013

Synopsis

Book by Bidart Frank

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

Praise for Metaphysical Dog. At seventy-three years old, Bidart has a light, mellifluous voice that could lend succor to the shell shocked. Exceedingly generous and gentle, he also wields a supercharged intelligence, a tentacled erudition that reaches deep into what Matthew Arnold dubbed the best that is known and thought in the world . . . Metaphysical Dog . . . [is] his most intimate testimonial of the poetic mind in reciprocity with the personal man.--William Giraldi, Poets & Writers. My favourite book of the spring--and likely of many springs to come--is Metaphysical Dog by Frank Bidart, our great poet of rage--rage at the self, rage at the world--and acceptance. This collection engages his entire body of work, echoing the lyric fluency of his incomparable 2008 collection Watching the Spring Festival, assessing his legendary long poem Ellen West, from 1977's The Book of the Body, and even harking back to the visionary terrain of his debut, Golden State. Metaphysical Dog is a book of devastating beauty and genuine terror--an unrelenting inquiry into some of the darkest corners of existence. No writer means as much to me as Frank Bidart, and I'm conscious of the inadequacy of this attempt to describe his work. But how do you write about unspeakable eloquence? How can you explain art that has taught you how to live? --Jared Bland, The Globe and Mail. At seventy-two, the future is what I mourn, Bidart announces in this starkly inspiring eighth collection. The poet's spiky free reverse remains direct, sometimes even frightening, and clearer than ever before about mortality--his own death, and the deaths of his friends and his parents; and yet, perhaps in the spirit of anticipatory mourning, familiar interests--in old and new movies, terse metaphysical argument, and sex, especially sex between men are all present. 'The true language of ecstasy is the forbidden language of the mystics, he says in Defrocked --Various

Présentation de l'éditeur

A vital, searching new collection from one of finest American poets at work today . In Those Nights, Frank Bidart writes: We who could get / somewhere through / words through / sex could not. Words and sex, art and flesh: In Metaphysical Dog, Bidart explores their nexus. The result stands among this deeply adventurous poet's most powerful and achieved work, an emotionally naked, fearlessly candid journey through many of the central axes, the central conflicts, of his life, and ours. Near the end of the book, Bidart writes: In adolescence, you thought your work ancient work: to decipher at last human beings' relation to God. Decipher love. To make what was once whole whole again: or to see why it never should have been thought whole. This ancient work reflects what the poet sees as fundamental in human feeling, what psychologists and mystics have called the hunger for the Absolute--a hunger as fundamental as any physical hunger. This hunger must confront the elusiveness of the Absolute, our self-deluding, failed glimpses of it. The third section of the book is titled History is a series of failed revelations. The result is one of the most fascinating and ambitious books of poetry in many years.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0374173613
• ISBN 13: 9780374173616
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 112