Metaphysical dog
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.
| Uniform Title: | Poems. Selections |
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| Main Author: | Bidart, Frank, 1939- |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2013.
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| Physical Description: |
113 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
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. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Poems. 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. 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. |
| Physical Description: |
113 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780374173616 0374173613 |