Frank Bidart

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Frank Bidart (b. 1939 in Bakersfield, California) is an American academic and award-winning poet.

In 1957, he began to study at the University of California at Riverside and went on to Harvard, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. He began studying with Lowell and Reuben Brower in 1962.[1]

He has taught at Wellesley College since 1972 and is currently (as of 2007) a professor of English there. He has also taught at nearby Brandeis University.

Frank Bidart was the 2007 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.

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[edit] Poetry

  • Golden State (1973)
  • The Book of the Body (1977)
  • The Sacrifice (1983)
  • In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965–90 (1990)
  • Desire (1997) received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and the 1998 Bobbitt Prize for Poetry; nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award
  • Music Like Dirt (Sarabande Books, 2002), the only poetry chapbook ever nominated for a Pulitzer Prize
  • Star Dust (2005), in two sections
  • Watching the Spring Festival (2008)[2], Bidart's first book of lyrics

[edit] Other

[edit] Awards and honors

  • Wallace Stevens Award
  • Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award
  • Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
  • Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America
  • The Paris Review's first Bernard F. Conners Prize for "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky" in 1981
  • Elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2003
  • Bollingen Prize in American Poetry (2007)

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ [1]Web page biography of Bidart at The Academy of American Poets Web site, accessed January 5, 2007
  • Rae Armantrout; John Ashbery; et al. (2002). The Best American Poetry 2002. Scribner Poetry. ISBN 0-7432-0386-0. 

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