{"product_id":"desire-poems-9780374525996","title":"Desire: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eNominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI hate and--love. The sleepless body hammering a nail nails itself, hanging crucified.--from \"Catullus: Excrucior\" In Frank Bidart's collection of poems, the encounter with desire is the encounter with destiny. The first half contains some of Bidart's most luminous and intimate work-poems about the art of writing, Eros, and the desolations and mirror of history (in a spectacular narrative based on Tacitus). The second half of the book exts the overt lyricism of the opening section into even more ambitious territory-\"The Second Hour of the Night\" may be Bidart's most profound and complex meditation on the illusion of will, his most seductive dramatic poem to date. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDesire\u003c\/i\u003e is a 1997 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrank Bidart's\u003c\/b\u003e poems are collected in\u003ci\u003e In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 1990). In 1998 he won the Bobbitt Prize and received a Lannan Literary Fellowship. He teaches at Wellesley College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Strauss \u0026 Giroux-3pl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50668969361682,"sku":"9780374525996","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_37296d89-46ae-4735-9c40-f6aa09d96b83.jpg?v=1733753859","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/desire-poems-9780374525996","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}