Frank Bidart

Frank Bidart is the author of Metaphysical Dog (FSG, 2013), Watching the Spring Festival (FSG, 2008), Star Dust (FSG, 2005), Desire (FSG, 1997), and In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 (FSG, 1990). He has won many prizes, including the Wallace Stevens Award, the 2007 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His book Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize and the 2017 National Book Award. He teaches at Wellesley College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
National Book Awards Finalist
National Book Critics Circle Awards Winner
Pulitzer Prize Winner
National Book Awards Winner
Against Silence
Frank Bidart
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
An urgent new collection from the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and “one of the undisputed master poets of our time” (Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR)
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Available 09/14/2021
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Frank Bidart
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
WINNER OF THE 2018 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY
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Metaphysical Dog
Frank Bidart
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
Winner of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
A National Book Award Finalist
A vital, searching new collection...
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Watching the Spring Festival
Frank Bidart
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This is Frank Bidart's first book of lyrics—his first book not dominated by long poems. Narrative elaboration becomes speed and song. Less embattled than earlier work, less actively violent, these...
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Collected Poems
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled the definitive edition of Robert Lowell's work, from his first, impossible-to-find collection, Land of Unlikeness; to the early triumph of Lord...
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In the Western Night
Frank Bidart
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In the Western Night brings together in one volume all of the poems to date, including many previously unpublished poems, of one of the most exciting and gifted poets writing today.
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