Description
A fierce and searching collection, *Star Dust* explores the human impulse to make, shape, and give meaning to experience—and the ways that impulse can also distort or wound. Its first section, *Music Like Dirt*, presents compressed, intense poems, while the second gathers lyrics alongside *The Third Hour of the Night*, a dark narrative work inspired by the volatile life of Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini. Moving among art, myth, violence, desire, guilt, and memory, the collection inhabits extreme states of consciousness without offering easy resolution. Characterized by dramatic voices, formal daring, and roiling emotional intensity, these poems exemplify Frank Bidart’s uncompromising originality and powerful contribution to contemporary American poetry.
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paperback
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published Jan 1, 2005
84 pages
ISBN: 9780374269739
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Details
First Published
2005
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Star Dust by Frank Bidart.