{"product_id":"half-light-collected-poems-1965-2016-paperback","title":"Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrank Bidart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2018 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe collected works of one of contemporary poetry's most original voices\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGathered 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHalf-light \u003c\/i\u003eencompasses all of Bidart's previous books, and also includes a new collection, \u003ci\u003eThirst\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVisionary and revelatory, intimate and unguarded, Bidart's \u003ci\u003eHalf-light: Collected Poems 1965-2017\u003c\/i\u003e are a radical confrontation with human nature, a conflict eternally renewed and reframed, restless line by restless line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Bidart\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eMetaphysical Dog\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2013), \u003ci\u003eWatching the Spring Festival\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2008), \u003ci\u003eStar Dust\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2005), \u003ci\u003eDesire\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 1997), and \u003ci\u003eIn the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 1990). He has won many prizes, including the Wallace Stevens Award, the 2007 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches at Wellesley College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 736\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 21, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755624038688,"sku":"9780374537692","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/929c8ee7eb43486033b153d542ca8ac9.webp?v=1780063897","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/half-light-collected-poems-1965-2016-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}