#frankbidart

[strandbooks]

Congratulations to all the #NationalBookAward winners (and finalists)! 🏆📚🏆 The winners are 📖Fiction: Jesmyn Ward - Sing Unburied Sing 📖Nonfiction: Masha Gessen- The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia 📖Poetry: Frank Bidart- Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 ​📖Young People's Lit: Robin Benway - Far From the Tree​ •• @nationalbookfoundation #jesmynward #mashagessen #frankbidart #robinbenway #bookawards (at Strand Book Store)

[poemmedicine]

From “The Third Hour of the Night”

Frank Bidart

Unless teeth devour it it rots: now is its season. My teeth have sunk into firm-skinned pears so succulent time stopped. When my wife, dead now ten years, pulls her dress over her petticoats and hair, the air crackles, her hair rising tangles in ecstasy. We are electric ghosts.                   • You hear the strange cricket in the oven sing, and ask what it sings. This is what it sings. Because Benvenuto in my native tongue means welcome, write here lies an artist who did not recoil from residence on earth — but, truly named, welcomed it. But I mis-spoke: not wife. Servant: model: mother of my child, also now dead.

[ramirollona]

#desire #FrankBidart #voyageofthesablevenus #RobinCosteLewis (en Peru) https://www.instagram.com/p/CU6AOw-LGr1/?utm_medium=tumblr

[kaloogamagazine]

"But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal." #FrankBidart #quote #poetry / this is a throwback to when I was obviously having an incredibly good time with @liselini____ @lukscht friends and family at their perfectly-sized beautiful #greekwedding #tbt #tb (at Greece) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsv9YmIHqJc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vpj0l9zk47ua

[bgsqd]

#publishingtriangle awards finalists reading @bgsqd tonight at 7! #frankbidart @livesofgreatmen #petergajdics #catherinehernandez #matthewlansburgh #paulamartinac #maureennmclane #alistairmccartney @charifshan See you tonight! (at Bureau of General Services-Queer Division)

[hepoosclouds]

狗。"How dare being / give him this body." #frankbidart (at Orange, California)

[hepoosclouds]

butt on couch and front legs straddling /space to rest on an ottoman, barking till / his masters clean his teeth with dental floss :: metaphysical dog(s) 🐩🐕 #frankbidart (at Orange, California)

[vmkirin]

This is something to chew on. #embracechange #evolve #frankbidart #mantra