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style="width:197px;height:232px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px" data-sz="f" name="za-ahivn20umhM:" class="rg_i" jsaction="load:str.tbn"><div class="rg_ilm _aOd"><div class="rg_ilmbg"><span class="rg_ilmn"> 425 × 500 - everseradio.com </span></div></div></a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Dear Fellow Poeticians,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">this Friday the WGCP will meet from 3PM - 5 PM in WHC in room 116 for our preliminary discussion of Frank Bidart’s most recent collection, <i class="">Metaphysical Dog. </i>We turned up 3 additional copies of the book and they have been left in WHC 116—go grab a copy if you missed your chance earlier. Also now at the Whitney Humanities Center are photocopies of a new long poem (39 pages!) that Bidart has sent to us to look at and discuss. This poem hasn’t been published yet (though <i class="">Poetry Magazine</i> has announced they will soon be publishing it). Thus, we have a sneak preview. 15 copies of this are at the WHC 116, so pick one up. Again, these go fast, so I might now wait.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bidart himself will join us on Dec 5th at 3 PM to help us continue our discussion of his work. In a review of Metaphysical Dog that appeared in Slate Jonathan Farmer has this to say: "Part of [Bidart’s] genius over the years (this is his eighth collection, reaching back to 1973’s <em class="">Golden State, </em>and
he now claims a rightful place in the ranks of American masters) has
been his ability to present the drama of that which cannot change.” <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/06/metaphysical_dog_a_new_book_of_poems_by_frank_bidart_reviewed.html" class="">http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/06/metaphysical_dog_a_new_book_of_poems_by_frank_bidart_reviewed.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Below, I will paste his bio, pulled from the Academy of American Poets.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The WGCP is open to all guests and visitors, so please do feel free to pass word of these sessions to any interested parties.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Onward,</div><div class="">Richard Deming, Co-Coordinator </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bidart reading at the NBA ceremony, 2013: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2gt1nY4NcY" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2gt1nY4NcY</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">++++</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Frank Bidart was born in Bakersfield, California on May 27, 1939 and
educated at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard
University, where he was a student and friend of <a href="http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/robert-lowell" class="">Robert Lowell</a> and <a href="http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/elizabeth-bishop" class="">Elizabeth Bishop</a>.</div><p class="">His first volume of poetry, <i class="">Golden State</i> (G. Braziller, 1973), was selected by poet <a href="http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/richard-howard" class="">Richard Howard</a> for the Braziller Poetry series, but it wasn’t until the publication of <i class="">The Sacrifice</i> (Random House, 1983) that Bidart’s poetry began to attract a wider readership. Bidart’s early books are collected in <i class="">In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90</i> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990).</p><p class="">His recent volumes include <em class="">Metaphysical Dog: Poems</em> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013); <em class="">Watching the Spring Festival: Poems </em>(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008); <i class="">Star Dust</i> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005); <i class="">Music Like Dirt</i> (Sarabande Books, 2002); and <i class="">Desire</i>
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997), which was nominated for a Pulitzer
Prize, and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the
National Book Critic’s Circle Award. He is also the co-editor of Robert
Lowell’s <i class="">Collected Poems</i> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003).</p><p class="">About
his work, the former U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Glück has said, “More
fiercely, more obsessively, more profoundly than any poet since <a href="http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/john-berryman" class="">Berryman</a>
(whom he in no way resembles) Bidart explores individual guilt, the
insoluble dilemma.” And about his career as a poet, she said, “Since the
publication, in 1973, of <i class="">Golden State</i>, Frank Bidart has patiently amassed as profound and original a body of work as any now being written in this country.”</p><p class="">His honors include the <a href="http://www.poets.org/academy-american-poets/prizes/wallace-stevens-award" class="">Wallace Stevens Award</a>,
the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Foundation Writer’s Award, the Morton
Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters,
the Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America, and <i class="">The Paris Review</i>‘s
first Bernard F. Conners Prize for “The War of Vaslav Nijinsky” in
1981. In 2007, he received the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.</p><p class="">Bidart was elected a <a href="http://www.poets.org/academy-american-poets/chancellors" class="">Chancellor</a>
of the Academy of American Poets in 2003. He lives in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, where he has taught at Wellesley College since 1972.</p><hr class=""><p class=""><strong class="">Selected Bibliography</strong></p><p class=""><em class="">Metaphysical Dog: Poems </em>(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013)<br class=""><em class="">Watching the Spring Festival: Poems </em>(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008)<br class=""><em class="">Star Dust </em>(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005)<br class=""><em class="">Music Like Dirt </em>(Sarabande Books, 2002)<br class=""><em class="">Desire </em>(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997)<br class=""><em class="">In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90</em> (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990)<br class=""><em class="">The Sacrifice </em>(Random House, 1983)<br class=""><em class="">Golden State </em>(G. Braziller, 1973)</p></body></html>