61. Bidart Wins Bobbitt Prize The 1998 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt Prize for poetry was awarded to frankbidart. Library frank bidart Awarded Bobbitt Prize. Bronze http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9812/bidart.html

LC INFORMATION BULLETIN December 1998 Library of Congress Home Page Frank Bidart Awarded Bobbitt Prize Bronze Bust Unveiled to Honor Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt by Yvonne French A Library love story involving LBJ's sister spawned a poetry prize 10 years ago. This year, that prize, the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt prize, was awarded Oct. 22 to Frank Bidart. Mr. Bidart won the prize for his book Desire (1997, Farrar, Straus and Giroux). To commemorate the 10th year of the biennial prize, three former winners also read. Photo by Yvonne French "This is a distinguished prize awarded to distinguished poets," said Dr. Billington. Said Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry Robert Pinsky: "There is a risk in establishing a poetry prize as a memorial. Prizes can be baloney. A prize is as good as the people who win it. This prize has a wonderful, wonderful record." The $10,000 privately funded poetry prize is given on behalf of the nation. The prize is donated by the family of the late Mrs. Bobbitt of Austin, Texas, in her memory, and established at the Library of Congress. While she was a graduate student in Washington during the 1930s, Rebekah Johnson met O.P. Bobbitt when they both worked in the cataloging department at the Library. Bobbitt had matriculated to Washington from Texas by train on a ticket purchased from the sale of a cow. They later married and returned to Texas. Sculptor David Deming with his bust of Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt.

62. Www.loc.gov/today/pr/1995/95-158 PR95158 frank bidart and Robert Pinsky Read at LC November 9, 1995 Contact CraigD'Ooge (202) 707-9189 BOSTON POETS frank bidart AND ROBERT PINSKY TO READ AT http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/1995/95-158

63. Gewanter Reviews Bidart's "Desire" Desire frank bidart Farrar, Straus Giroux, $20. by David Gewanter.The haunting dramas of frank bidart's latest book, Desire, add http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR23.2/gewanter.html

Desire Frank Bidart by David Gewanter The haunting dramas of Frank Bidart's latest book, Desire , add to a body of work already rivaling twentieth-century poetry's great spiritual inquiries: T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets and W. B. Yeats's A Vision . Eliot sought resolution, if not absolution, in Anglican dogma; he casts a drama of existential nihilism as the dark night from which the soul turning to God can escape. Yeats saw no hell below heaven and earth, but sought another realm of being. He adopted a Heraclitean exchange-mortals and immortals living each other's deaths-to lyrics such as "Sailing to Byzantium" and "The Gyres." Bidart's new poems explore the night-world of desire where, as an earlier poem claims, "WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE" ("Guilty of Dust"). The speakers-each an actor, victim, and witness to desire-recognize that by seeking love we discover what is within us: " I fulfill it, because I contain it " ("The Second Hour of the Night"). In this we find a Romantic ideal, love and self-love fused in the passion for "one of the sparrows which fly by," although our desires for the forbidden may prove stronger: "once you have seen a hand cut off, or / a foot, or a head, you have embarked, have begun … / The voyage" ("As the Eye to the Sun"). The soul's dilemma, then, is how to embrace a passion for what is horrifying and destructive when the consciousness of such desire could annihilate the self. Here Bidart covers familiar ground; indeed, his brilliant long poem "The Second Hour of the Night" offers us another nihilistic hero, Myrrha, to follow the memorable anti-selves of earlier poems, "Herbert White," "Ellen West," and "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky." In a narrative from Ovid, Myrrha lusts after her father; disguised, she enters his bedchamber:

64. The New York Review Of Books: Frank Bidart Bibliography of books and articles by frank bidart, from The New York Review of Books.The New York Review of Books frank bidart. November 8, 1984 TO THE DEAD http://www.nybooks.com/authors/3282

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65. PRICEFARMER.COM: Farm-Fresh Price Comparisons Of Books frank bidart. 7 Titles Sorted by Title Alphabetically. 1. Collected Poems (Hardcover)by Robert Lowell; frank bidart; David Gewanter November 2002 http://www.pricefarmer.com/cgi-bin/farm?author=Bidart, Frank

66. Poet Of The Week to be a misnomer if I start slacking off in my updating duties.) And so for yourreading fun, I present this weeks poet of the week frank bidart Personal note http://www.angelfire.com/nj2/fshk/poetoftheweek.html

Poet of the week Welcome to the poet of the week page. Here I will showcase the poets that I am most fond of, in an effort to expose a few of you less culturally enriched people out there to some of my favorite writing. (Please note that "poet of the week" may prove to be a misnomer if I start slacking off in my updating duties.) And so for your reading fun, I present this weeks poet of the week: Frank Bidart Personal note: I discovered Mr. Bidart almost by accident about a year ago while leafing through my copy of The Best of American Poetry 1998 . There is a poem called "The Second Hour of the Night" which I found very interesting, and unusual stylistically. Well, unusual is a bad word. But it was unique. I recently did a presentation for my creative writing class on Bidart, and read several of his books, all of which are very good. Here are some excerpts: Love Incarnate For the Twentieth Century Guilty of Dust Dark Night ... To The Dead Links Frank Bidart at the Academy of American Poets Here is a bio and a few poems by Bidart. back to the poetry page I don't have to take this, I'm going home!

67. Alphamusic - Franzen Jonathan Translate this page ( Tb) 528 Seiten Buch, 13.50 EUR weitere Artikel zu Franzen, Jonathan, Details.Franzen, Jonathan bidart, frank/Gewanter, David - Collected Poems 800 http://www.alphamusic.de/cgi-bin/suche.pl?fastsearch=Franzen, Jonathan

68. Readings: Acclaimed Poets Bidart And Pankey Here Readings. Acclaimed poets bidart and Pankey here. By Liam Otten frank bidart. frankbidart will read from his works March 11, followed by Eric Pankey on March 16. http://record.wustl.edu/archive/1999/02-25-99/articles/bidart.html

Readings Acclaimed poets Bidart and Pankey here By Liam Otten Frank Bidart Two nationally recognized poets will visit campus in March for the Reading Series sponsored by the Creative Writing Program in Arts and Sciences. Frank Bidart will read from his works March 11, followed by Eric Pankey on March 16. Both readings will take place at 8 p.m. in Hurst Lounge, Room 201 Duncker Hall. "Longtime director of the Writing Program at Washington University, Eric Pankey is one of the most prolific and elegant poets of his generation," said Steven Meyer, Ph.D., director of the Creative Writing Program. "Frank Bidart, one of the most important and respected poets of the day, is our major singer of emotional catastrophe." Bidart is the author of five volumes, including "The Golden State" (1973), "The Book of the Body" (1979), "The Sacrifice" (1983) and "In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-1990." His latest book, "Desire" (1997), was a finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry, the National Book Critic's Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Born in Bakersfield, Calif., in 1939, Bidart earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California Riverside and a master's degree from Harvard, where he was a student and friend of the poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. His numerous honors and awards include a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award, the Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America and The Paris Review's Bernard F. Conners Prize. He teaches at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass., and currently is editing a collection of Robert Lowell's poems.

69. Sarabande Books - Book Description Book Excerpt. Music Like Dirt By frank bidart. ISBN 1889330-78-7 (paper).Price $8.95 (paper). Pages 31. Trim 7 x 5. Publication date 04/2002. http://www.sarabandebooks.org/Authors/Frank Bidart/1010612361475

Book Excerpt Music Like Dirt By Frank Bidart ISBN: 1-889330-78-7 (paper) Price: $8.95 (paper) Pages: 31 Trim 7 x 5 Publication date: 04/2002 Music Like Dirt is the inaugural edition in Sarabande's Quarternote Chapbook Series that will feature a select group of poets by invitation only. James Tate will be the author of the second chapbook (April 2003) Frank Bidart writes of Music Like Dirt , "I wanted to make a sequence in which the human need to make is seen as not only central but inescapable. I wanted not a tract, but a tapestry in which making is seen in the context of the other processes—sexuality, mortality—inseparable from it." Since the publication, in 1973, of Golden State , Frank Bidart has patiently amassed as profound and original a body of work as any now being written in this country. He has given form for our age to what is most urgent and most private in the human soul: the ordeals of solitude and mortality and hunger and, recently, that action through which being speaks: the drive to make or create. Bidart's poems sound like no one else's; they look like no one else's: to accommodate the requirement of his art, that the voice be precisely enacted in its every variation and hesitation, Bidart has made of his form a theatre: if the voice must be confined to the page, it will exploit that page, extend its possibilities. His work has been, from the start, remarkable in its disdain for the soothing, the sentimental, the facile, the partial. He is, in the feeling of our jury, one of the great poets of our time.

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71. Frank Hecker - Interests - Poetry frank bidart, In the Western Night and Desire . (I got interested in readingCatullus through frank bidart's free adaptations of two of his poems. http://www.hecker.org/interests/poetry.html

Frank Hecker Interests Frank Hecker - Interests - Poetry I rediscovered poetry as an adult by reading Adrienne Rich (go figure), who is still one of my favorites. Here's what I've been reading in the past year: Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad . This is well-worth reading, especially if modern translations of Homer leave you cold. It also has great footnotes, with frequent flashes of Pope's wit. Frank Bidart, In the Western Night and Desire . In my opinion one of the best American poets working today. Jorie Graham, The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994 . This book won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize in poetry, but having read several of Graham's books I have to confess that I find her a maddeningly inconsistent poet. Some of the poems in Unified Field are excellent (for example, "Self-Portrait as the Gesture between Them") and others are complete clunkers ("Breakdancing" comes to mind). (Graham's strengths and weaknesses are reminiscent of Wallace Stevens'. A good rule of thumb: skip any poem that attempts to address social or cultural issues.) The Poems of Catullus , translated by Charles Martin;

72. Threepenny: Bidart, Curse A poem by frank bidart, expressed as a curse on behalf of the dead ofSeptember 11, in the Spring 2002 issue of The Threepenny Review. http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/bidart_sp02.html

Spring 2002 Curse May breath for a dead moment cease as jerking your head upward you hear as if in slow motion floor collapse evenly upon floor as one hundred and ten floors descend upon you. May what you have made descend upon you. May the listening ears of your victims their eyes their breath enter you, and eat like acid the bubble of rectitude that allowed you breath. May their breath now, in eternity, be your breath. Now, as you wished, you cannot for us not be. May this be your single profit. Of your rectitude at last disenthralled, you seek the dead. Each time you enter them they spit you out. The dead find you are not food. Out of the great secret of morals, the imagination to enter the skin of another , what I have made is a curse. Frank Bidart , who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, recently won the Wallace Stevens Award from the American Academy of Poets. Previous poems of his that appeared in The Threepenny Review Home Page Current Issue Past Issues Reading Room ... Contact Us

73. Bidart, Frank Web Directory. Top / Arts / Literature / Authors / B / bidart, FrankFrank bidart An Academy of American Poets poetry exhibit on http://www.reference.com/Dir/Arts/Literature/Authors/B/Bidart,_Frank/

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74. Stonehill College Press Release POET frank bidart READS FROM HIS WORK Awardwinning poet frank bidartvisited Stonehill on March 6 to read from his collection of work. http://www.stonehill.edu/media_relations/articles/bidart.htm

POET FRANK BIDART READS FROM HIS WORK Award-winning poet Frank Bidart visited Stonehill on March 6 to read from his collection of work. Presented by the English department, Bidart recited his poetry to a room filled with more than 150 students and faculty members. Bidart studied at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, most notably the Academy of American Poets' Wallace Stevens Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, and the Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his newest volume of poetry, Desire (1997), Bidart is currently editing an edition of Robert Lowell's collected poems. His new chapbook, Music Like Dirt , will be published in April by by Sarabande Books. Poet Louise Glück remarked of Bidart, he "has given form for our age to what is most urgent and private in the human soul: the ordeals of solitude and mortality and hunger and, recently...the drive to create...His work has been, from the start, remarkable in its disdain for the soothing, the sentimental, the facile, the partial. He is...one of the great poets of our time."

75. Ellen West Ellen West Cracking the Shell of the World frank bidart, (p. 173). Notes onfrank bidart (quotations from the Contemporary Authors article on bidart). http://mason.gmu.edu/~lsmithg/275west.htm

Ellen West : "Cracking the Shell of the World" Frank Bidart 1) How many voices do you hear in "Ellen West"? Mark the places in your text where you hear/see the voice changing. What clues (in vocabulary, in layout on the page, in line length, in punctuation, etc. alert you to a change in the voice? 2) As you all displayed so dramatically in the performances of "My Last Duchess"voice also changes in tone throughout a monologue, sometimes angry, sometimes thoughtful, sometimes cold and controlled. How does Ellen's voice change within her sections of the poem. Where is she angry or despairing, or self-doubting or confident or.... 3) Helen Vendler catalogues some of the components Bidart pours into his dramatic monologues. How many of these can you see in Ellen West and where do you find them? 4) What do you think Vendler means by 'cinematic' in her comment on Bidart's construction of the monologue?

76. Graduate Services - Modern Authors Collection Berry, Wendell 1934. Berryman, John 1914-1972. Betjeman, Sir John 1906-1984. *bidart,frank 1939-. Bishop, Elizabeth 1911-1979. Blackmur, Richard P. 1904-1965. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/GRAD/xmac.html

77. The Poetry Book Society - Search Results Bertolucci, Attilio (1) Betjeman, John (1) Betjeman, John ed (1) Bevan, AC (1) Bewick,Elizabeth (1) Bhatt, Sujata (5) bidart, frank (1) Bills, Gary (1) Bird http://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/catalogue_authors.asp?offset=50

78. Boston frank bidart. frank bidart was born in Bakersfield, California, in1939 and educated at the University of California at Riverside http://www.unitedpoets.org/boston_01.htm

UnitedPoets BOSTON, MA : coordinator: Beth Woodcome : A number of poets will read in Boston, including Robert Pinsky (thirty-ninth Poet Laureate of the United States), Frank Bidart ( Lannan Foundation Award and was a finalist for Pultzer Prize, National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award), Franz Wright acclaimed translator of Rilke and author of many books of poems, most recently “The Beforelife” (Knopf) and Fred Marchant , author of “Full Moon Boat”(Greywolf Press) and “Tipping Point” (Wordworks Press) and Joan Houlihan a Senior Poetry Editor for the Del Sol Review whose column, "Boston Comment" appears periodically on webdelsol.com and is featured often on "Arts and Letters Daily". November 12th at 7:00pm at The Boston Playwrights' Theatre at Boston University. It will be in the Front Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Ave. Robert Pinsky Frank Bidart Franz Wright Joan Houlihan Joan Houlihan is a poet, columnist, and former teacher of creative writing and literature at Pima College in Tucson, Arizona. Her provocative and popular column, “The Boston Comment,” focuses on controversial issues in contemporary poetry and appears regularly on Web del Sol. She is the Senior Poetry Editor of Del Sol Review, and new Editor-in-Chief of Perihelion magazine. Her own work has appeared or is forthcoming in: The Gettysburg Review, Fine Madness, Larcom Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Poetry International, Black Warrior Review and The Marlboro Review, among others.

79. Boston Reading PR Thirtyninth Poet Laureate of the United States,Robert Pinsky, National Book AwardFinalist frank bidart, AGNI editor Askold Melnyczuk and renowned poets Franz http://www.unitedpoets.org/bospr01.htm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 15, 2001 POETS FOR PEACE, an international arts campaign, announces: A Reading to Provide Immediate Assistance to the Red Cross and other relief organizations, and to help the children of New York and Washington. Thirty-ninth Poet Laureate of the United States,Robert Pinsky, National Book Award Finalist Frank Bidart, AGNI editor Askold Melnyczuk and renowned poets Franz Wright, Lucie Brock-Broido, Fred Marchant will join Joan Houlihan, Sean Singer and Daniel Bosch in a reading for Poets For Peace on November 12th at 7:00pm at The Boston Playwrights' Theatre at Boston University. It will be in the Front Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Ave. POETS FOR PEACE, an international community of writers dedicated to fostering world peace through the healing power of poetry, today announces a reading by Robert Pinsky, Frank Bidart, Franz Wright, Askold Melnyczuk, Lucie Brock-Broido, Fred Marchant, Joan Houlihan, Sean Singer and Daniel Bosch as part of a nationwide literary campaign to benefit the people of New York and Washington. The reading will be held in The Boston Playwrights' Theatre at Boston University. It will be in the Front Theatre, 949 Commonwealth Ave. on November 12th at 7:00pm. All donations will go directly to The Red Cross, United Way, and other relief organizations.

80. KU Libraries Literary Audiocassette And CD Holdings frank bidart and CK Williams. Intro. by Lawrence Joseph. bidart, frank. See Academyof American Poets Audiotape Archive. Bishop, Elizabeth. Elizabeth Bishop. http://www2.lib.ku.edu/~biblio/humanitieslit/literature/audio.htm

Literary Audiocassette, CD, and LP Holdings Available at Watson Library Reserve Desk unless otherwise noted. Poetry in Blue Fiction in Green; Drama in Orange; Nonfiction in Purple Literary works are unabridged, except as noted. A-J K-R S-Z The Academy of American Poets Audiotape Archive Each of these cassettes features a poet reading her or his own work and lasts approximately one hour. The reading is preceded by a brief introduction by another poet. John Ashbery. Intro. by David Lehman. PS 3501 .S475 A6 1994 W. H. Auden Intro. by Marianne Moore. PR 6001 .U4 A6 1964b Frank Bidart and C.K. Williams. Intro. by Lawrence Joseph. PS 3552 .I33 A6 1992 Louise Bogan Intro. by John Hall Wheelock. PS 3503 .O195 A6 1968b Kamau Brathwaite and Allen Ginsberg. Received April 12, 2000. Joseph Brodsky Translations read by Mark Strand. PG 3479.4 .R64 A2 1980 Amy Clampitt Intro. by Seamus Heaney. PS 3553 .L23 A6 1987 Intro. by Jane Flanders. PS 3553 .L45 A6 1983 Robert Duncan PS 3507 .U629 A6 1990z From 2 readings: 1978 (intro. by Lauren Shakely) and 1994 (intro. by Cyrus Cassells). PS 3556 .O68 A6

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