Watching the Spring Festival
This is Frank Bidart's first book of lyrics-his first book not dominated by long poems. Narrative elaboration becomes speed and song. 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.Mortality-imminent, not theoretical-forces the self to question the relation between the actual life lived and what was once the promise of transformation. This plays out against a broad landscape. The book opens with Marilyn Monroe, followed by the glamour of the eighth-century Chinese imperial court (seen throug…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Frank, Bidart
- ISBN: 978-0-374-53172-0
- EAN: 9780374531720
- Produktnummer: 19454038
- Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 70 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.4 cm 102 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 102
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