{"product_id":"metaphysical-dog","title":"Metaphysical Dog","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMetaphysical Dog\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eFrank Bidart\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780374534622\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2014\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e128\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA National Book Award Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMetaphysical Dog\u003c\/i\u003e offers a vital, searching collection from one of finest American poets at work today\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Those Nights,\" Frank Bidart writes: \"We who could get \/ somewhere through \/ words through \/ sex could not.\" Words and sex, art and flesh: In \u003ci\u003eMetaphysical Dog\u003c\/i\u003e, Bidart explores their nexus. The result stands among this deeply adventurous poet's most powerful and achieved work, an emotionally naked, fearlessly candid journey through many of the central axes, the central conflicts, of his life, and ours. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNear the end of the book, Bidart writes: \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In adolescence, you thought your work\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e ancient work: to decipher at last\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e human beings' relation to God. Decipher\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e love. To make what was once whole\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e whole again: or to see \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e why it never should have been thought whole.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis \"ancient work\" reflects what the poet sees as fundamental in human feeling, what psychologists and mystics have called the \"hunger for the Absolute\"--a hunger as fundamental as any physical hunger. This hunger must confront the elusiveness of the Absolute, our self-deluding, failed glimpses of it. The third section of the book is titled \"History is a series of failed revelations.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe result is one of the most fascinating and ambitious books of poetry in many years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Poetry Books\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book\u003cbr\u003eAn NPR Best Book of the Year\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Metaphysical Dog | Frank Bidart | Paperback | 9780374534622 | Used: Like New | Poetry 1741425 (temp: 17)","offer_id":48168906326168,"sku":"1741425","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/91AlFONHQCL.jpg?v=1771981506","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/metaphysical-dog","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}