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001 ocn317413123
003 OCoLC
005 20210325224435.0
008 090330r20092008nyu 000 p eng d
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050 4 $aPS3552.I33$bW38 2009
082 00 $a811/.6$222
100 1 $aBidart, Frank,$d1939-$eauthor.
245 10 $aWatching the spring festival /$cFrank Bidart.
250 $a1st paperback ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2009.
300 $avi, 61 pages ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
386 $aMen$2lcdgt
386 $aBay Staters$2lcdgt
386 $aUniversity and college faculty members$2lcdgt
500 $a"Poems"--Cover.
586 $a"National Book Award finalist"--Cover.
505 00 $tMarilyn Monroe --$tTu Fu watches the spring festival across serpentine lake --$tOld man at the wheel --$tLike lightning across an open field --$tYou cannot rest --$tPoem ending with three lines from "Home on the range" --$tAn American in Hollywood --$tSeduction --$tCatullus: Id faciam --$tSong of the mortar and pestle --$tValentine --$tWith each fresh death the soul rediscovers woe --$tSanjaya at 17 --$tWinter spring summer fall --$tUlanova at forty-six at last dances before a camera giselle --$tUnder Julian, c362 A.D. --$tCandidate --$tCoat --$tTo the republic --$tGod's catastrophe in our time --$tLittle O --$tWatching the spring festival --$tHymn --$tIf see no end in is --$tSong --$tCollector.
520 $aMortality--imminent, not theoretical--forces the self to question the relation between the actual life lived and what was once the promise of transformation. This plays out against a broad landscape. The book opens with Marilyn Monroe, followed by the glamour of the eighth-century Chinese imperial court (seen through the eyes of one of China's greatest poets, Tu Fu). At the center of the book is an ambitious meditation on the Russian ballerina Ulanova, Giselle, and the nature of tragedy. All this gives new dimension and poignance to Bidart's recurring preoccupation with the human need to leave behind some record or emblem, a made thing that stands, in the face of death, for the possibilities of art.Mortality--imminent, not theoretical--forces the self to question the relation between the actual life lived and what was once the promise of transformation. This plays out against a broad landscape. The book opens with Marilyn Monroe, followed by the glamour of the eighth-century Chinese imperial court (seen through the eyes of one of China's greatest poets, Tu Fu). At the center of the book is an ambitious meditation on the Russian ballerina Ulanova, Giselle, and the nature of tragedy. All this gives new dimension and poignance to Bidart's recurring preoccupation with the human need to leave behind some record or emblem, a made thing that stands, in the face of death, for the possibilities of art.
650 0 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century.
650 7 $aAmerican poetry.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00807348
648 7 $a1900-1999$2fast
655 7 $aPoems.$2rbgenr
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0807/2007040513-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0807/2007040513-d.html
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