eBook Watching the Spring Festival: Poems download
by Frank Bidart

Author: Frank Bidart
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition (April 1, 2008)
Language: English
Pages: 72
ePub: 1432 kb
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Category: Literature
Subcategory: Poetry
Bidart’s recent books include Watching the Spring Festival (2008), his first book of lyric poems; and Metaphysical Dog (2013), which won the National Books Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Bidart’s recent books include Watching the Spring Festival (2008), his first book of lyric poems; and Metaphysical Dog (2013), which won the National Books Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. His Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 won the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Poems by Frank Bidart. The Fourth Hour of the Night. See All Poems by Frank Bidart.
Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2008). This is a simply extraordinary collection of poems by Frank Bidart, who is quickly becoming recognized, alongside Louise Glück, as an influential master in contemporary poetry. The jacket copy for Watching the Spring Festival mentions that Bidart's poetry here is less violent than his previous work.
Watching the Spring Festival book. Mortality-imminent, not theoretical- This is Frank Bidart's first book of lyrics-his first book not dominated by long poems. Narrative elaboration becomes speed and song. This is Frank Bidart's first book of lyrics-his first. Less embattled than earlier work, less actively violent, these new poems have, by conceding time's finalities and triumphs, acquired a dark radiance unlike anything seen before in Bidart's long career.
Watching the Spring Festival. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This is Frank Bidart's first book of lyrics-his first book not dominated by long poems. National Book Awards Finalist. Mortality-imminent, not theoretical-forces the self to question the relation between the actual life lived and what was once the promise of transformation.
Watching the Spring Festival (2008).
Frank Bidart Bidart was the 2007 winner of Yale University's Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. His chapbook, Music Like Dirt, later included in the collection Star Dust, was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. Watching the Spring Festival (2008). Metaphysical Dog (2013), nominated for the National Book Award in Poetry and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
This is Frank Bidart's first book of lyrics-his first book not dominated by long poems.
Frank Bidart, American English educator, poet. Watching the Spring Festival: Poems.
Bidart's early books are collected in In the Western Night: Collected .
Bidart's early books are collected in In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990). Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017) Metaphysical Dog: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013) Watching the Spring Festival: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) Star Dust (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005) Music Like Dirt (Sarabande Books, 2002) Desire (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997) In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990) The Sacrifice (Random.
Frank Bidart’s latest poems look back at the precedents - literary . Bidart’s new book returns to the rough, terse and sometimes shocking phrasings that won him attention decades ago.
Frank Bidart’s latest poems look back at the precedents - literary, cinematic and sexual - that shaped him as an adult.