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Metaphysical dog / Frank Bidart.

by Bidart, Frank, 1939-

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.

American poetry -- 20th century

American poetry -- 21st century.

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.

113 pages ; 22 cm

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.

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Poems. Selections

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0374173613 (alk. paper)

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