Desire by Frank Bidart

Frank Bidart,
Desire, poems: Bidart's long-awaited new collection-his first book since
In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90-contains some of his most luminous and intimate work to date. The first half include poems about the art of writing, Eros, and the desolations and mirror of history (in a narrative based on Tacitus). The second half goes into even more ambitious territory, with 'The Second Hour of the Night' serving as a seductive meditation on the illusion of will. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)