Star Dust (book)

Star Dust is a collection of poetry by Frank Bidart, first published in book form by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2005. The book was a 2005 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.^[1]

The book is split into two sections. The first section, Music Like Dirt, is a sequence of poems that became the first chapbook to ever be nominated for the Pulitzer Prize when it was originally published in 2002.^[2] The second section includes The Third Hour of the Night, a dark and violent poem about Italian Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini. It is part of a project by Bidart that, so far, includes two similarly titled poems. Third Hour was first published in the October 2004 issue of Poetry, taking up almost the entire issue.^[3][4]

Star Dust also includes notes on some poems by Bidart, and later editions also include an interview with the author conducted by Bookslut.^[5]

References

1. ↑ http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2005.html#.Us1tgIXDKKI
2. ↑ http://us.macmillan.com/stardust/FrankBidart
3. ↑ http://www.bookslut.com/features/2005_06_005720.php
4. ↑ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/146745
5. ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=6or6hwKikbIC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=interview&f=false

External links

• Full text of The Third Hour of the Night at Poetry
• Bookslut interview