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kittehloaf's review against another edition
4.0
This poetry book is all about human experiences (I know...cliche, right?) but Bidart writes about them in the most beautiful way. I really enjoyed this.
plato_nico's review against another edition
5.0
rip Walt Whitman, you would have loved Metaphysical Dog by Frank Bidart.
kayla_can_read's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
Very fun and nicely done existing suffering through it while enjoying immensely
caramels's review against another edition
3.0
“You mourn not
what is not, but what never could have been.”
what is not, but what never could have been.”
nick_jenkins's review against another edition
5.0
Bidart carries intensity and spaciousness within his poems better than any other poet I've read. Partly this has to do with the way his poems look on the page, but there is something even back of the poems which mixes these two qualities in some taut ratio that seems to me enigmatic, even magical.
absalomabsalom's review against another edition
4.0
some loose, clean words which i felt the shape of more than the actual tedious, reworking act of reading. but obviously extremely beautiful worrying and sometimes frighteningly needle-specific but also probably not. my conceit of dog body and thoughts and sadnesses are not completely original and the door through which we are all pushed out into the light is self-loathing, terror, and mother
ajchurch's review against another edition
2.5
poetry is something I'll keep trying until it lands. The poem "Queer" probably stands for a whole star in this rating because that was. So much.