Sinossi
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- Pagine: 184
- Data di uscita: 09-02-2018
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• "I hate and -- love. The sleepless body hammering a nail nails itself, hanging crucified." • "There is a king inside the king that the king does not acknowledge. Four steps forward then one back, then three back, then four forward: the illusion of movement without movement, because you know that wh Leggi tutto
Bidart's explorations of desire in terms of contemporary love contrasting with ancient myth interlacing work based on Tacitus and Illiad, particularly in the second section, the massive 33-page poem entitled The Second Hour of the Night based on the myth of Myrrha. Bidart's sparse writing really wor Leggi tutto
An intriguing collection split between modern love and ancient lore. About half of the poems circle around love and the loss of the beloved. Less interesting to me were the poems focusing on ancient wars and myths, although the myth covered in the extensive Second Hour of the Night reaches heights o Leggi tutto
Its beauty is hard to look at ('as the eye to the sun'); lifting the scab over sex and death ('when we wake to desire'). I will read and read again.
Each of them knows what will happen here:– . . . she can delay, he can delay because what is sweet about deferral is that what arrives despite it, is revealed as inevitable:–
i cant stand the form, otherwise i would give this book more of a chance
This is Bidart’s 5th book of poems, counting as 4th a “collected” summation. The book is divided into two parts, the first a series of 13 pieces ranging from less than half a page to five pages in length, the second consisting of a single 33-page poem entitled “The Second Hour of the Night.” This is Leggi tutto
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