Frank Bidart biography
Date of birth : 1939-05-27
Date of death : -
Birthplace : Bakersfield, California, U.S.
Nationality : American
Category : Arts and Entertainment
Last modified : 2011-06-01
Credited as : Poet, The Book of the Body, Pulitzer Prize, Bollingen Prize
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In 1957, he began to study at the University of California at Riverside and went on to Harvard, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. He began studying with Lowell and Reuben Brower in 1962.
Frank Bidart was the 2007 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. His chapbook, Music Like Dirt, later included in the collection Star Dust, is the only chapbook to be nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
Author of books:
Golden State (1973, poetry)
The Book of the Body (1977, poetry)
The Sacrifice (1983, poetry)
In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965–90 (1990, poetry)
Desire (1997, poetry)
Music Like Dirt (2002, poetry)
Star Dust (2005, poetry)
