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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).
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Audio file
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Introduction
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Description
by Alison Hawthorne Deming
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Audio file
Track Title
"To the Dead"
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Citation
Bidart, Frank. In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990.
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Audio file
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"Dark Night"
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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.
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Audio file
Track Title
"The First Hour of the Night"
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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.
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