Description
This landmark collection gathers Frank Bidart’s poems from 1965 to 1990, tracing the evolution of a fiercely original voice across lyric, dramatic, narrative, and experimental forms. Moving through the psychological, bodily, and moral landscapes of modern existence, the poems confront desire, suffering, identity, artistic creation, and the struggle to find meaning in a fractured world. Its culminating sequence reimagines the Egyptian sun god’s nightly journey through the underworld as a powerful structure for exploring humanity’s benighted condition and the possibility of renewal. Intense, theatrical, and formally inventive, the collection established Bidart as one of the most uncompromising and innovative poets in contemporary American literature.
Available Editions
paperback
Farrar Straus Giroux
Published Jan 1, 1990
243 pages
ISBN: 9780374176600
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Details
First Published
1990
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for In the Western Night by Frank Bidart.