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Bidart, Frank Desire
New York Farrar Straus & Giroux 1997 0374138249 / 9780374138240 Hardcover Good Hardcover
Second printing. This book is in excellent condition. DJ is not price clipped. Light scuffing on the DJ. Inside is clean and excellent. Review: Desire, Frank Bidart's first book since In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-1990, is in two parts. Part I is a collection of short poems; Part II consists of a single poem, "The Second Hour of the Night," a sequel to "The First Hour of the Night" that ends In the Western Night. Bidart, a poet who makes a large arc between the universal and the idiosyncratic, has learned that the transformations themselves, rendered without comment, have the capacity to chill your blood. The source for "The Second Hour of the Night" is Ovid's story of Myrrha and her father Cinyras, one of the least-known but most suggestive tales--a reversal of the Oedipus myth. Bidart's tormented dramatization of Ovid's version reads like an investigation into the deepest layers of the story. While both poets turn the doomed heroine into a plant, Bidart looks into causes and motivatio Orders normally ship in 1-2 business days depending on what time payment is completed.
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