{"product_id":"half-light-collected-poems-1965-2016","title":"Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016","description":"WINNER OF THE 2018 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY\nWINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY\n\nThe collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voices\n\nGathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His pages represent the human voice in all its extreme registers, whether it’s that of the child-murderer Herbert White, the obsessive anorexic Ellen West, the tormented genius Vaslav Nijinsky, or the poet’s own. And in that embodiment is a transgressive empathy, one that recognizes our wild appetites, the monsters, the misfits, the misunderstood among us and inside us. Few writers have so willingly ventured to the dark places of the human psyche and allowed themselves to be stripped bare on the page with such candor and vulnerability. Over the past half century, Bidart has done nothing less than invent a poetics commensurate with the chaos and appetites of our experience.\n\nHalf-light encompasses all of Bidart’s previous books, and also includes a new collection, Thirst, in which the poet austerely surveys his life, laying it plain for us before venturing into something new and unknown. Here Bidart finds himself a “Creature coterminous with thirst,” still longing, still searching in himself, one of the “queers of the universe.”\n\nVisionary and revelatory, intimate and unguarded, Bidart’s Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2017 are a radical confrontation with human nature, a conflict eternally renewed and reframed, restless line by restless line.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0374125953\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0374125953.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Bidart, Frank\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41905217765434,"sku":"DBV.0374125953.G","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0374125953-0.jpg?v=1794111491","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/half-light-collected-poems-1965-2016","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}