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Watching the Spring Festival

by Frank Bidart


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Poet Frank Bidart uses the icons of American popular culture--Marilyn Monroe, The Great American Songbook, Hollywood--as lyrical entry points into timeless poetic themes of death, desire, and loss. WATCHING THE SPRING FESTIVAL was nominated for the National Book Award in 2008 and was a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.


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9780374286033 9780374286033, Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2008

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A first collection of lyrics by the Bollingen Prize-winning author of Star Dust evaluates the role of imminent mortality in forcing the self to question the relation between actual life and the promise of transformation, in a volume that explores such subjects as Marilyn Monroe, the ballet Giselle, and the nature of tragedy.

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"Bidart's tone is oracular and austere but always intimate. Full of rage even when most melancholy or sweet, his voice leaps off the page toward his subjects, and toward the reader."

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