Signed! Watching the Spring Festival: Poems by Frank Bidart (2008, Farrar ...

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A book in excellent condition. Cover is shiny and undamaged, and the dust jacket is included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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“signed and dedicated on front endpaper, no apparent flaws”
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ISBN
9780374286033
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374286035
ISBN-13
9780374286033
eBay Product ID (ePID)
63163713

Product Key Features

Book Title
Watching the Spring Festival
Number of Pages
72 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
General
Genre
Poetry
Author
Frank Bidart
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
9.5 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-040513
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Synopsis
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 through the eyes of one of China's greatest poets, Tu Fu). At the center of the book is an ambitious meditation on the Russian ballerina Ulanova, "Giselle," and the nature of tragedy. All this gives new dimension and poignance to Bidart's recurring preoccupation with the human need to leave behind some record or emblem, a made thing that stands, in the face of death, for the possibilities of art. Bidart, winner of the 2007 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, is widely acknowledged as one of the significant poets of his time. This is perhaps his most accessible, mysterious, and austerely beautiful book.
LC Classification Number
PS3552.I33W38 2008

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