Music Like Dirt
by Frank Bidart
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Frank Bidart writes ofMusic Like Dirt, "I wanted to make a sequence in which the human need to make is seen as not only central but inescapable. I wanted not a tract, but a tapestry in which making is seen in the context of the other processes--sexuality, mortality--inseparable from it." "Bidart has patiently amassed as profound and original a body of work as any now being written in this country. He has given form for our age to what is most urgent and most private in the human soul: the show more ordeals of solitude and mortality and hunger and, recently, that action through which being speaks: the drive to make or create. Bidart's poems sound like no one else's; they look like no one else's. . . . He is, in the feeling of our jury, one of the great poets of our time."--Louise Gl#65533;ck, jury chair, 2001 Wallace Stevens Award The Academy of American Poets The inaugural edition in Sarabande's Quarternote Chapbook Series which will feature a select group of poets by invitation only Frank Bidart's collections of poetry includeDesire(1997), which received the 1998 Bobbitt Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress and the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, and was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Pulitzer Prize; In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90(1990);The Sacrifice(1983);The Book of the Body(1977); andGolden State(1973). Among his many honors are the Lila Acheson Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund 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 the Lannan Literary Award. He teaches at Wellesley College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. show lessTags
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Frank Bidart was born in Bakersfield, California on May 27, 1939. He attended the University of California-Riverside and Harvard University. His first collection of poetry, Golden State, was published in 1973. His other collections of poetry included The Book of the Body, The Sacrifice, Star Dust, and Watching the Spring Festival. He received show more several awards including the Rebekka Bobbitt Prize for Desire, the National Books Critics Circle Award for Metaphysical Dog, and the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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