''Star Dust ''is a collection of poetry by

Frank Bidart Frank Bidart (born May 27, 1939) is an American academic and poet, and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Biography Bidart is a native of California and considered a career in acting or directing when he was young. In 1957, he began to s ...

, first published in book form by

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in 2005. The book was a 2005

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Finalist for Poetry. 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

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when it was originally published in 2002. The second section includes ''The Third Hour of the Night'', a dark and violent poem about Italian Renaissance artist

Benvenuto Cellini Benvenuto Cellini (, ; 3 November 150013 February 1571) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, and author. His best-known extant works include the ''Cellini Salt Cellar'', the sculpture of ''Perseus with the Head of Medusa'', and his autobiography ...

. 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 Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

'', taking up almost the entire issue. ''Star Dust ''also includes notes on some poems by Bidart, and later editions also include an interview with the author conducted by

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References

External links

Full text of ''The Third Hour of the Night ''at ''Poetry''

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