Desire: Poems
by Frank Bidart
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Author: Frank BidartEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-03-30
ISBN: 0374525994
Number of pages: 84
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Book Reviews of Desire: Poems
Book Review: Okay, but not worth buying
Summary: 3 Stars
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This is a very short book. I enjoyed some of its first half when I read it. Then, but for two poems, I didn't even care to read the rest more than once. I tried, but it had little to no emotional impact. I love, love, love his interpretation of Catullus's Odi Et Amo -- love it. I'd say it's worth the price of admission, but... there it is right in the book description above, to be easily printed out and saved (and only one version is in this book). I couldn't get into the second half at all, the long (half-book length) poem based on Ovid's work. I liked the idea more than its execution; I was bored.
The book is good; his style is good, but somehow only two poems stuck with me; "Odi Et Amo" (called Catullus: Excrucior here) and the one the other reviewer mentioned, with the line, "I wake and sleep and wake and sleep...." I think reading the same number of poems of his, on the internet, would suffice. If you love the Catulus poem like I do -- in its original, there are other English-speaking poets who've also written interesting interpretations -- I particularly like Ezra Pound's.
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