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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bidart, Frank, 1939- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014.
Edition:First paperback edition.
Subjects:
American poetry > 20th century.
American poetry > 21st century.
Table of Contents:
  • Metaphysical dog
  • Writing "Ellen West"
  • Like
  • Those nights
  • Name the bed
  • Queer
  • History
  • Hunger for the absolute
  • Defrocked
  • He is Ava Gardner
  • Mourn
  • The enterprise is abandoned
  • Janáček at seventy
  • Threnody on the death of Harriet Smithson
  • Dream of the book
  • Inauguration day
  • Race
  • Glutton
  • Whitman
  • Three tattoos
  • As you crave soul
  • Things falling from great heights
  • O ruin o haunted
  • Plea and chastisement
  • Martha Yarnoz Bidart Hall
  • Late Fairbanks
  • Against rage
  • For the AIDS dead
  • Tyrant
  • Mouth
  • Rio
  • Presage
  • Elegy for earth
  • Of his bones are coral made
  • Poem ending with a sentence by Heath Ledger
  • Dream reveals in neon the great addictions
  • Ganymede
  • On this earth where no secure foothold is
  • For an unwritten opera.