Frank Bidart

Apr 18, 2024 | nybooks.com | Frank Bidart |Kay Redfield Jamison |Robert Lowell |William Wordsworth

The Heart Is Strange: New Selected Poems by John Berryman, edited and with an introduction by Daniel Swift The Dream Songs by John Berryman, with an introduction by Michael Hofmann 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman, with an introduction by Henri Cole Berryman’s Sonnets by John Berryman, with an introduction by April Bernard

Oct 19, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Frank Bidart

"When I hit her on the head, it was good, and then I did it to her a couple of times,— but it was funny,—afterwards, it was as if somebody else did it... Everything flat, without sharpness, richness or line. Still, I liked to drive past the woods where she lay, tell the old lady and the kids I had to take a piss, hop out and do it to her...