“The stratagems by which briefly youameliorated, even seeminglyuntwisted what still twists within you —you loved their taste and lay thereon your sidenursing like a puppy.”
Frank Bidart“Understand that when the beast within yousucceeds again in paralyzing into unendingincompletion whatever you again had the temerity totry to makeits triumph is made sweeter by confirmation of itsrectitude. It knows that it aloneknows you.”
Frank Bidart, Star Dust“I'm not a fool, I knew from the beginningwhat couldn't happen. What couldn't ”
Frank Bidart, Metaphysical Dog“Though the body is itsgenesis, a poem is the vision of a p”
Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival: Poems“The stratagems by which briefly youameliorated, even seeminglyuntwisted what still twists within you —you loved their taste and lay thereon your sidenursing like a puppy.”
Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival: Poems“Though the body is itsgenesis, a poem is the vision of a processCarved in space, vision your poor eye's singlearmor against winter spring summer fall”
Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival: Poems