Reader
Date
Sponsors
UA Poetry Center
Reading Series
Location
Modern Languages Auditorium
Frank Bidart
With intense emphasis and concentration, Frank Bidart reads the first two poems and the long last poem of his collected works, In the Western Night (1990).
Tracks
Audio file
Audio file
Track Title
"To the Dead"
Reader
Citation
Bidart, Frank. In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990.
Audio file
Track Title
"Dark Night"
Reader
Description
Poem by St. John of the Cross, translated by Frank Bidart.
Citation
Bidart, Frank. In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990.
Audio file
Track Title
"The First Hour of the Night"
Reader
Description
Recording includes pp. 183-209 of this long poem.
Citation
Bidart, Frank. In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990.