Frank Bidart

Troubled and troubling characters

by Keith Taylor

posted 3/1/2004

Frank Bidart has always startled his readers. His first book of poems began with a long dramatic monologue in the voice of a homicidal pedophile. His second book ended with another monologue, at least partially in the voice of a young woman suffering from anorexia. Alternate passages in that poem are told in the voice of the attending physician or analyst trying

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