Frank Bidart

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Frank Bidart (2013)

Frank Bidart (born May 27, 1939 in Bakersfield , California ) is an American poet and university professor who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2018 for his volume of poetry Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 and the National Book Award for Poetry received. He has also received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for other works , and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1992 .

Life

After attending school, Bidart began an undergraduate degree at the University of California, Riverside , graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). During postgraduate studies at Harvard University , he made friends with writers Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop . In 1972 he took over a professorship at Wellesley College and has taught there ever since.

1973 appeared with Golden State Bidart's first collection of poems, which were selected by the poet Richard Howard for the series of poetry published by the New York publisher George Braziller. In 1981 he received the Bernard F. Conners Prize, first awarded by the literary magazine The Paris Review, for "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky". However, it did not reach a larger readership until ten years later with the volume The Sacrifice , published in 1983 by Random House . In 1990 Farrar, Straus and Giroux published a collection of his early poems under the title In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 . He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992 . His 1997 volume of poetry, Desire , also published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award for Poetry, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Bidart, who received the 2000 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets , became Chancellor of the Academy in 2003 and was one of the co-editors of the Collected Poems by Robert Lowell , published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux . He was also a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006 and received the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry in 2007 . In 2008 he won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry for Watching the Spring Festival: Poems . His volume of poetry, Metaphysical Dog: Poems , which was published in 2013 , won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was also nominated for the National Book Award for poetry. In 2017, Bidart was awarded a Griffin Poetry Prize for life's work. In 2017, his volume of poetry Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 was published, which received the National Book Award for poetry in 2017 and the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 2018 .

Publications

  • Golden State , 1973
  • The Book of the Body , 1977
  • The Sacrifice , 1983
  • In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-1990 , 1990
  • Desire , 1997
  • Music Like Dirt , 2002
  • Star Dust , 2005
  • Watching the Spring Festival: Poems , 2008
  • Metaphysical Dog: Poems , 2013
  • Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016 , 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter B. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved May 15, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ 2013 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS AND FINALISTS
  4. ↑ 2017 - Frank Bidart , accessed October 20, 2018
  5. ↑ 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS AND FINALISTS
  6. ^ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Winners
personal data
SURNAME Bidart, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Bakersfield , California