Frank Bidart (Introduction of Collected Poems)

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	Star Dust 4.02 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Desire: Poems 4.05 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-1990 4.14 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Watching the Spring Festival: Poems 3.80 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Music Like Dirt: A Chapbook 4.05 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Golden State (The Braziller Series of Poetry) 4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Book of the Body 4.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Sacrifice 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Israel & the Dead Sea Scrolls 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1978 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Collected Poems by Robert Lowell, David Gewanter (Editor), Frank Bidart (Introduction) 4.10 avg rating — 635 ratings — published 1973 — 7 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Frank Bidart

“then the voice in my head said

WHETHER YOU LOVE WHAT YOU LOVE

OR LIVE IN DIVIDED CEASELESS
REVOLT AGAINST IT

WHAT YOU LOVE IS YOUR FATE ”
― Frank Bidart, In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-1990

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“But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.”
― Frank Bidart

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“We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them change them and are changed.”
― Frank Bidart, Desire: Poems

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