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Watching The Spring Festival: Poems (2008)

by Frank Bidart(Favorite Author)

3.8 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0374286035 (ISBN13: 9780374286033)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

review 1: Read this book for a poetry class and wasn't much enthralled.I found the selections a bit convoluted, and I never felt the desire to slow down and really concentrate on any poem in particular, let alone reread any of them (which is usually my gauge for a good collection of poems). This is my first time reading Frank Bidart, and I might give some of his other work another chance, but this book just wasn't for me.
review 2: I sort of forget how weird Bidart is when I'm not reading him, because his name has been in the background of my life for so long that it's almost comforting. His books, for all their wonderful qualities, are not a comfort.Even when they are funny, as they often are, they are unsettling, pregnant with the sense that I'm missing something essen... moretial when I can't reassemble the poem. For what appears to be abstract, Bidart is able to invest the poems with a palpable sense of how important they are. No poems of playing around, these, even when they are funny. So what does it all mean? I'll leave it at this: I'm not sure if I could tell this book from another Bidart book, tell whether one was better than another, or even if they were different. I'm not sure that's an endorsement, but I think, too, that he writes a distinctive enough kind of verse that he will find the readers he needs, and he will be writing the kinds of poems he writes whenever I find myself in the mood for those kinds of poems. less

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