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Frank Bidart

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Frank Bidart


Born
in Bakersfield, CA, The United States
May 27, 1939

Genre
Poetry


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 for American Poetry, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He teaches at Wellesley College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Average rating: 4.03 · 6,509 ratings · 479 reviews · 49 distinct works • Similar authors
Metaphysical Dog
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Half-Light: Collected Poems...
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Star Dust
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Desire: Poems
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In the Western Night: Colle...
4.22 avg rating — 346 ratings — published 1990 — 7 editions
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Watching the Spring Festiva...
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Against Silence: Poems
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The Sacrifice
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Music Like Dirt
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Golden State
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“God said: GOD MADE YOU. GOD DOES NOT CARE IF YOU ARE "GUILTY" OR NOT. I said: I CARE IF I AM GUILTY! I CARE IF I AM GUILTY!... God was silent. Everything was SILENT.”
― Frank Bidart, Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
tags: god, guilt
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“then the voice in my head said

WHETHER YOU LOVE WHAT YOU LOVE

OR LIVE IN DIVIDED CEASELESS
REVOLT AGAINST IT

WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE ”
― Frank Bidart, In the Western Night: Collected Poems, 1965-1990
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“1. Man is a MORAL animal.

2. You can get human beings to do anything — IF you convince them it is moral.

3. You can convince human beings anything is moral.”
― Frank Bidart, Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
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