Metaphysical Dog

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner A National Book Award Finalist Metaphysical Dog offers a vital, searching collection from one of finest American poets at work today In "Those Nights," Frank Bidart writes: "We who could get / somewhere through / words through / sex could not." Words and sex, art and flesh: In Metaphysical Dog , Bidart explores their nexus. The result stands among this deeply adventurous poet's most powerful and achieved work, an emotionally naked, fearlessly candid jour