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Half-light

Collected Poems 1965-2016

By: Frank Bidart

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Half-light

Collected Poems 1965-2016

By: Frank Bidart

The collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voices Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His pages represent the human voice in all its extreme registers, whether it’s that of the child-murderer Herbert White, the obsessive anorexic Ellen West, the tormented genius Vaslav Nijinsky, or the poet’s own. And in that embodiment is a transgressive empathy, one that recognizes our wild appetites, the monsters, the misfits, the misunderstood among us and inside us. Few writers have so willingly ventured to the dark places of the human psyche and allowed themselves to be stripped bare on the page with such candor and vulnerability. Over the past half century, Bidart has done nothing less than invent a poetics commensurate with the chaos and appetites of our experience. Half-light encompasses all of Bidart’s previous books, and also includes a new collection, Thirst, in which the poet austerely surveys his life, laying it plain for us before venturing into something new and unknown. Here Bidart finds himself a “Creature coterminous with thirst,” still longing, still searching in himself, one of the “queers of the universe.” Visionary and revelatory, intimate and unguarded, Bidart’s Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2017 are a radical confrontation with human nature, a conflict eternally renewed and reframed, restless line by restless line.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374715181

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9780374715182

Metaphysical Dog

Poems

By: Frank Bidart

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Metaphysical Dog

Poems

By: Frank Bidart

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner A National Book Award Finalist Metaphysical Dog offers a vital, searching collection from one of finest American poets at work today In "Those Nights," Frank Bidart writes: "We who could get / somewhere through / words through / sex could not." Words and sex, art and flesh: In Metaphysical Dog, Bidart explores their nexus. The result stands among this deeply adventurous poet's most powerful and achieved work, an emotionally naked, fearlessly candid journey through many of the central axes, the central conflicts, of his life, and ours. Near the end of the book, Bidart writes: In adolescence, you thought your work ancient work: to decipher at last human beings' relation to God. Decipher love. To make what was once whole whole again: or to see why it never should have been thought whole. This "ancient work" reflects what the poet sees as fundamental in human feeling, what psychologists and mystics have called the "hunger for the Absolute"—a hunger as fundamental as any physical hunger. This hunger must confront the elusiveness of the Absolute, our self-deluding, failed glimpses of it. The third section of the book is titled "History is a series of failed revelations." The result is one of the most fascinating and ambitious books of poetry in many years. One of Publishers Weekly's Best Poetry Books A New York Times Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year

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102

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Macmillan + ORM

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0374713383

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9780374713386

Music Like Dirt

By: Frank Bidart

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Music Like Dirt

By: Frank Bidart

A single poem in sequence. Daring new work by a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominee.

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Sarabande Books

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1889330787

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9781889330785

Against Silence

Poems

By: Frank Bidart

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Against Silence

Poems

By: Frank Bidart

An urgent new collection from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and “one of the undisputed master poets of our time” (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR) Words, voices reek of the worlds from which they emerge: different worlds, each with its all but palpable aroma, its parameters, limitations, promise. Words—there is a gap, nonetheless always and forever, between words and the world— slip, slide, are imprecise, BLIND, perish. • Set up a situation,— . . . then reveal an abyss. For more than fifty years, Frank Bidart has given voice to the inner self, to the depths of his own psyche and the unforgettable characters that populate his poems. In Against Silence, the Pulitzer Prize winner’s eleventh collection of poetry, Bidart writes of the cycles we cannot escape and the feelings we cannot forget. Our history is not a tabula rasa but a repeating, refining story of love and hate, of words spoken and old cruelties enacted. Moving among the dead and the living, the figures of his life and of his past, Bidart calls reality forth—with nothing settled and nothing forgotten, we must speak.

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9780374603526

Against Silence

Poems

By: Frank Bidart

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Star Dust

Poems

By: Frank Bidart

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Star Dust

Poems

By: Frank Bidart

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 contract with the idea of truth. Star Dust is a 2005 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.

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Macmillan

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0374530335

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9780374530334

Half-light

Collected Poems 1965-2016

By: Frank Bidart

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Half-light

Collected Poems 1965-2016

By: Frank Bidart

Includes 3 separate interviews with the author.

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0374125953

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9780374125950

Desire

Poems

By: Frank Bidart

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Desire

Poems

By: Frank Bidart

The first half contains some of Bidart's most luminous and intimate work-poems about the art of writing, Eros, and the desolations and mirror of history (in a spectacular narrative based on Tacitus). The second half of the book exerts the overt lyricism of the opening section into even more ambitious territory-"The Second Hour of the Night" may be Bidart's most profound and complex meditation on the illusion of will,"--Amazon.com.

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Macmillan

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0374525994

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9780374525996

Metaphysical Dog

Poems

By: Frank Bidart

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Poems

By: Frank Bidart

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In the Western Night

Collected Poems, 1965-1990

By: Frank Bidart

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In the Western Night

Collected Poems, 1965-1990

By: Frank Bidart

In the Western Night brings together in one volume all of the poems to date, including many previously unpublished poems, of one of the most exciting and gifted poets writing today.

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256

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374522715

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9780374522711

Two-Buck Chuck & The Marlboro Man

The New Old West

By: Frank Bergon

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Two-Buck Chuck & The Marlboro Man

The New Old West

By: Frank Bergon

Frank Bergon’s astonishing portrayals of people in California’s San Joaquin Valley reveal a country where the culture of a vanishing West lives on in many twenty-first-century Westerners, despite the radical technological transformations around them. All are immigrants, migrants, their children, or their grandchildren whose lives intertwine with the author’s, including several races and ethnicities: Chicanos, Mexicans, African Americans, Italians, Asians, Native Americans, Scots-Irish descendants of Steinbeck’s Okies, and Basques of the author’s own heritage. Bergon presents a powerful array of rural and small-town Westerners who often see themselves as part of a region and a way of life most Americans aren’t aware of or don’t understand, their voices unheard, their stories untold. In these essays, Westerners from the diverse heritage of the San Joaquin Valley include California’s legendary Fred Franzia, the maker of the world’s best-selling Charles Shaw wines dubbed “Two-Buck Chuck,” and Darrell Winfield, a Dust Bowl migrant and lifelong working cowboy who for more than thirty years reigned as the iconic Marlboro Man. Their voices help us understand the complexities of today’s rural West, where Old West values intersect with New West realities. This is the West (and America today)—a region in conflict with itself.

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University of Nevada Press

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1948908050

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9781948908054

Music Like Dirt

By: Frank Bidart

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Music Like Dirt

By: Frank Bidart

A single poem in sequence. Daring new work by a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominee.

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Molecular Oncology

By: Frank Joseph Rauscher (III)

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Molecular Oncology

By: Frank Joseph Rauscher (III)

Reviews the origins of molecular oncology, including technologies for cancer analysis, key pathways in human malignancies, and available pharmacologic therapies.

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985

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Cambridge University Press

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0521876621

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9780521876629

The Baffler

Twilight of the Century

By: Thomas C. Frank

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The Baffler

Twilight of the Century

By: Thomas C. Frank

Brilliantly designed and bursting with an eclectic range of material, the Baffler is a literary journal with a difference, juxtaposing visual images with a dynamic range of writings. From history to poetry, social and political commentary to fiction, THE BAFFLER is the critically acclaimed pubication for all avid followers of contemporary culture.

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1888984252

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9781888984255

James Franco

The Dangerous Book Four Boys

By: James Franco,Frank Bidart,Eric Boman,Jason Schmidt,Marianne Spurr

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The Dangerous Book Four Boys

By: James Franco,Frank Bidart,Eric Boman,Jason Schmidt,Marianne Spurr

Considered one of the finest actors of his generation, James Franco is also a multitalented writer and visual artist. Drawing from his experience in film and television work, Franco has produced a visually exciting and thought-provoking body of video works, multimedia installations, and large-scale sculptures. Drawn from the exhibition curated by Alanna Heiss and organized by the Clocktower Gallery, James Franco: The Dangerous Book Four Boys explores themes of childhood and nostalgia, games and destruction. Each experimental film, suite of drawings, and raw, childlike construction is presented as a window into the artist's mind. This dense and often diaristic survey reflects Franco's interest in the contemporary American landscape of adolescence and young adulthood.

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Skira

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0847838137

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9780847838134

My Life and Loves Illustrated by Frank Harris

By: Frank Harris

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My Life and Loves Illustrated by Frank Harris

By: Frank Harris

My Life and Loves is the autobiography of the Ireland-born, naturalized-American writer and editor Frank Harris (1856-1931). As published privately by Harris between 1922 and 1927, and by Jack Kahane's Obelisk Press in 1931, the work consisted of four volumes, illustrated with many drawings and photographs of nude women. The book gives a graphic account of Harris's sexual adventures and relates gossip about the sexual activities of celebrities of his day.

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ISBN 13

9798463462961

Book's by Frank Bidart

Half-light

Half-light

Metaphysical Dog

Metaphysical Dog

Music Like Dirt

Music Like Dirt

Against Silence

Against Silence

Against Silence

Against Silence

Star Dust

Star Dust

Half-light

Half-light

Desire

Desire

Metaphysical Dog

Metaphysical Dog

In the Western Night

In the Western Night

Two-Buck Chuck & The Marlboro Man

Two-Buck Chuck & The Marlboro Man

Music Like Dirt

Music Like Dirt

Molecular Oncology

Molecular Oncology

The Baffler

The Baffler

James Franco

James Franco

My Life and Loves Illustrated by Frank Harris

My Life and Loves Illustrated by Frank Harris

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