Frank Bidart (b. 1939 in Bakersfield, California) is an American poet. In 1957, he began to study at the University of California at Riverside. In 1962, he began studying with Robert Lowell and Reuben Brower at Harvard. 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... City nickname:Californias Country Music Capital County Kern County, California Area - Total - Water 296. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The University of California (UC) is a public university system within the State of California. ... Riverside is a name common to a number of cities and counties. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Robert Lowell Robert Lowell (March 1, 1917–September 12, 1977), born Robert Traill Spence Lowell, Jr. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ...
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Rae Armantrout; John Ashbery; et al. (2002). The Best American Poetry 2002, Scribner Poetry. ISBN 0-7432-0386-0.
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Frank Bidart reads his poems at the 2001 Ohio University Spring Literary Festival, RealAudio
FrankBidart was born in Bakersfield, California, in 1939 and educated at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.
Bidart's first volume of poetry, Golden State (1973), was selected by poet Richard Howard for the Braziller Poetry series, but it wasn't until the publication of The Sacrifice (1983) that Bidart's poetry began to attract a wider readership.
Bidart was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 2003.
Bidart uses syntax and punctuation to capture the nuances of the speaker’s voice, and weaves quotations from literature, philosophy and history into his poems.
FrankBidart is the author of five collections of poetry.
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