Description
This daring collection of poems explores the volatile intersections of language and desire, art and the body, memory and mortality. Moving through family, gender, sexuality, aging, and the persistent human hunger for transcendence, the poems confront the distance between what we long to understand and what remains ultimately elusive. In stark, repetitive, and emotionally unguarded verse, the poet searches personal history, literature, and lived experience for patterns that might lead toward acceptance. Ambitious, dark, and deeply intimate, the collection stands as a powerful meditation on the limits of the physical world—and the revelations found in probing those limits.
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paperback
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Published Jan 1, 2013
113 pages
ISBN: 9780374173616
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Details
First Published
2013
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Metaphysical Dog by Frank Bidart.