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Metaphysical Dog (2013)

by Frank Bidart(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0374173613 (ISBN13: 9780374173616)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

review 1: This was one of two books of poetry included in the 2013 New York Times 100 best books of the year. I think they could have made a better choice. Two poems in here I found interesting, "Whitman" and ""As You Crave Soul." The rest I really had no response to. They didn't seem to be saying anything interesting or coherent. Perhaps I should try again, but I already have several other collections of poetry waiting for my attention, so I'll pass on seconds this time.
review 2: Everybody already knows everything and so everybody is alike, turning into everybody else. Couples only stay together as long as they're necessary to each other. Words are flesh working to become idea. These are some of the thoughts explored in Bidart's Metaphysical Dog. They're poems i... moren which ideas come to the surface slowly. They're arrived at, and the reader is often surprised by them. The form of the poems is sometimes couplets, sometimes single lines. And they seem aphoristic, so that the spaces in the poems allow for and encourage reflection, so that the ideas Bidart seems to tease to the surface can make themselves known. He writes about love, and he writes about art, making us believe that words work--sometimes hard--to become idea. less

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