Frank Bidart Poetry

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Frank Bidart (b. 1939 in Bakersfield, California) is an American poet. In 1957, he began to study at the University of California at Riverside. In 1962, he began studying with Robert Lowell and Reuben Brower at Harvard. He is currently a professor of English at Wellesley College.

Frank Bidart has published five books of poetry. The first three are collected, with new poems, in In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990). His fifth volume, Desire (FSG),... about Frank Bidart

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By Lexi 19 May, 2009
I admire your poem. It's moving in just little words oh but how your words have more meaning than what others tend to see to feel to listen.