{"product_id":"9780374530334","title":"Star Dust : Poems","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eStar Dust\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Frank Bidart\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2002, Frank Bidart published a sequence of poems, \u003ci\u003eMusic Like Dirt\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eStar Dust\u003c\/i\u003e, finally complete.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 being fights for its survival by making an eternal life. Bidart is a poet of passionate originality, and \u003ci\u003eStar Dust\u003c\/i\u003e shows that the forms of this originality continue to deepen and change as he constantly renews his contract with the idea of truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStar Dust\u003c\/i\u003e is a 2005 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bidart is dazzled, confounded and compelled by words, and he wants us to feel the same way . . . [He] has a fastidious sense of poetic craft, but he has faith in primal energies too . . . What Bidart proposes, to balance the moral and aesthetic risks that he takes in \u003ci\u003eStar Dust\u003c\/i\u003e, is the largest possible conception of poetry's powers.” —\u003ci\u003eLangdon Hammer, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Key poems that speak directly to our age--a kind of post-millennium poetry of engagement . . . Marvelous.” —\u003ci\u003eMegan Harlan, San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShort-listed National Book Awards - Finalist (2005), Nominated Triangle Awards - Nominee (2006)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374530334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40667529281742,"sku":"9780374530334","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_45fce950-3665-4fa9-a599-792de2664f1b.jpg?v=1639712704","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374530334","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}