Frank Bidart
Frank Bidart (born May 27, 1939) is an American poet and teacher.
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| Born | May 27, 1939 Bakersfield, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet, professor |
| Alma mater | University of California, Riverside Harvard University |
| Notable works | Golden State (1973) Desire (1997) Star Dust (2005) Metaphysical Dog (2013) |
| Notable awards | Bollingen Prize in Poetry (2007) National Book Award (2017) Pulitzer Prize (2018) |
Bidart was born in Bakersfield, California in 1939. He went to college at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard University. At Harvard he was a student and friend of poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.[1]
He has taught at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Masachusetts since 1972.[1]
In 2007 Bidart won Yale University's Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.[2] Metaphysical Dog won the National Books Critics Circle Award[3] and was a finalist for the National Book Award.[4] In 2017, Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 won the National Book Award.[5] It also won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2018.[6]
Poetry
- Golden State (1973)
- The Book of the Body (1977)
- The Sacrifice (1983)
- In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965–90 (1990)
- Desire (1997)
- Music Like Dirt (2002)
- Star Dust (2005)
- Watching the Spring Festival (2008)
- Metaphysical Dog (2013)
- Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016 (2017)
- Against Silence (2021)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "About Frank Bidart | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
- ↑ "Welcome | The Bollingen Prize for Poetry". bollingen.yale.edu. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
- ↑ "2013". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
- ↑ "Metaphysical Dog". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
- ↑ "Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
- ↑ "Poetry". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2023. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
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