Star Dust Poems

Name: Star Dust Poems
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ISBN: 9780374530334

ISBN-10: 0374530335

ISBN-13: 9780374530334

Edition: N/A

Authors: Frank Bidart

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In 2002, Frank Bidart published a sequence of poems, Music Like Dirt, the first chapbook ever to be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. From the beginning, he had conceived this sequence as the opening movement in a larger structure--now, with Star Dust, finally complete. In this profound and unforgettable new book, the dream beyond desire (which now seems to represent human destiny) is rooted in the drive to create, a drive tormented at every stage by failure, as the temporal being fights for its survival by making an eternal life. Bidart is a poet of passionate originality, and Star Dust shows that the forms of this originality continue to deepen and change as he constantly renews his…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 5/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 96
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.286




Music Like Dirt


For the Twentieth Century


Music Like Dirt


Young Marx


For Bill Nestrick (1940-96)


Little Fugue


Advice to the Players


Stanzas Ending with the Same Two Words


The Poem is a Veil


Luggage


Hammer


Injunction


Heart Beat


Legacy


Lament for the Makers





Curse


Knot


Phenomenology of the Prick


The Soldier Who Guards the Frontier


Romain Clerou


Hadrian's Deathbed


Song


Star Dust


The Third Hour of the Night


Notes


An Interview with Frank Bidart