Bidart, Frank

Frank Bidart s recent full-length collections of poetry include "Watching the Spring Festival" (FSG, 2008), "Star Dust" (FSG, 2005), "Desire" (FSG, 1997), and "In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965 90" (FSG, 1990). He has won many prizes, including the Wallace Stevens Award, the 2007 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry and, most recently, The 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for "Metaphysical Dog". He teaches at Wellesley College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.