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Frank Bidart (born 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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Works
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
Other
- Editor, with David Gewanter, of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems (2003)
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)
Notes
- ^ [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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Biography
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