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.
Check out Bidart's books at Barnes & Noble
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