Description
A fierce and formally inventive exploration of longing, Desire examines the forces that draw people toward love, family, artistic perfection, and transcendent truth—even when fulfillment remains impossible. The collection opens with thirteen varied poems, including an elegy for artist Joe Brainard, before unfolding into “The Second Hour of the Night,” a haunting reimagining of Ovid’s tale of Myrrha and Cinyras. Across fractured voices, dramatic monologues, and shifting poetic forms, the work investigates obsession, fate, intimacy, artistic creation, and the painful ways desire both shapes and confines the self. Uncompromising and psychologically charged, it exemplifies the originality and passionate intensity of a major American poet.
Available Editions
paperback
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published Jan 1, 1997
61 pages
ISBN: 9780374138240
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Details
First Published
1997
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Desire by Frank Bidart.