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Born in May 27, 1939 / United States / English

Poems by Frank Bidart

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Adolescence

... what he was doing was something I'd alwayscrave in later life, just as he did ...

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Dark Night

... ceased and left me, forgotten in the grave of forgotten lilies ...

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Herbert White

... under me, a little girl was just lying there in the mud:and I knew I couldn't have done that,-- ...

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California Plush

... And I can't not think of the remorse of Oedipus,who tries to escape, to expiate the past ...

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For The Twentieth Century

... ..Callas, Laurel & Hardy, Szigetiyou are alive again,—the slow movement of K ...

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Guilty Of Dust

... *then the voice in my head saidWHETHER YOU LOVE WHAT YOU LOVEOR LIVE IN DIVIDED CEASELESS ...

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Homo Faber

... Whatever lies still uncarried from the abyss within ...

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If I Could Mourn Like A Mourning Dove

... two weeks before you died inpain worn out, after my usual casual sign-off ...

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Love Incarnate

... He ate it submissively, as if afraid as LOVE wept ...

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Overheard Through The Walls Of The Invisible City

... tion.—Until telling those who swarm around him begins again(we are the wheel to which we are bound) ...

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Self-Portrait, 1969

... .. Once, instead, ...

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To The Dead

... owly and shakily sobered up,sick, throbbing with remorse and self-loathing,insight like ashes: clung ...

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If? See No End In Is

... The prospect is mixed but elsewhere the forecast is no ...

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The Return

... —  one showed where Varus received his first wound, and  ...

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Golden State

... I quit the ciggeretts but went through ten days of hell quitting and my back had been giving me hell ...