Metaphysical Dog

{{short description|2013 poetry collection by Frank Bidart}}

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| image = Metaphysical Dog.jpg |

| name = Metaphysical Dog

| author = Frank Bidart

| country = United States

| language = English

| genre = Poetry

| publisher = Farrar, Straus and Giroux

| release_date = 30 April 2013

| pages = 128 pp

| media_type = Print (hardcover)

| isbn = 978-0-374-17361-6

}}

Metaphysical Dog is the eighth book of collected free verse poems by American poet Frank Bidart.{{cite web|title=Metaphysical Dog|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-374-17361-6|publisher=Publishers Weekly|accessdate=18 November 2014}} It was published in 2013 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux and won the National Book Critics Circle Award;{{cite web|title=National Book Critics Circle Announces Award Winners for Publishing Year 2013|url=http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/national-book-critics-circle-announces-award-winners-for-publishing-year-20|publisher=National Book Critics Circle Award|accessdate=18 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140314062439/http://bookcritics.org/blog/archive/national-book-critics-circle-announces-award-winners-for-publishing-year-20|archive-date=14 March 2014|url-status=dead}} it was also nominated for the National Book Award in Poetry.{{cite web|title=2013 National Book Award Finalist, Poetry|url=http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2013_p_bidart.html#.VGtcG_nF-So|publisher=National Book Awards|accessdate=18 November 2014}}