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In 2002, Frank Bidart published a sequence of poems, Music Like Dirt , the first chapbook ever to be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. From the beginning, he had conceived this sequence as the opening movement in a larger structure--now, with Star Dust , finally complete. Throughout his work, Bidart has been uniquely alert to the dramatic possibilities of violence; in this, and in his sense of theater, he resembles the great Jacobean dramatists. It is no accident that Webster's plays echo in "The Third Hour of the Night," the brilliant long poem that dominates the second half of Star Dust . Bidart locates in Benvenuto Cellini the speaker truest to his own vision. Who better to speak of the drive to create, not as reverie or pleasure or afterthought, but as task and burden, thwarted by the world? In its scale, sonorities, extraordinary leaps, and juxtapositions, "The Third Hour of the Night" makes an astonishing counterbalance to the intense, spare lyrics that precede it. In this profound and unforgettable new book, the dream beyond desire (which now seems to represent human destiny) is rooted in the drive to create, a drive tormented at every stage by failure, as the temporal b

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Author

Frank Bidart; Bemis/Flaherty Collection of Gay Poetry

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374530334

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

3.95 / 5 (380 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14