Frank Bidart
Frank Bidart’s recent full-length collections of poetry include 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 for American Poetry and, most recently, The 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Metaphysical Dog. He teaches at Wellesley College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Half-light
Frank Bidart
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voices
Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body...
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Half-light
Frank Bidart
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The collected works of one of contemporary poetry’s most original voices
Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body...
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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
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Metaphysical Dog
Frank Bidart
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
A National Book Award Finalist
A vital, searching new collection from one of finest American poets at work today
In...
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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
Robert Lowell; Edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter; Introduction by Frank Bidart
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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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Star Dust
Frank Bidart
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
In 2002, Frank Bidart published a sequence of poems, Music Like Dirt, the first chapbook ever to be a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. From the beginning, he had conceived this sequence as...
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Desire
Frank Bidart
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
I hate and--love. The sleepless body hammering a nail nails itself, hanging crucified.--from "Catullus: Excrucior" In Frank...
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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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