Frank Bidart: Quick Facts

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Born	May 27, 1939 (age 87) • Bakersfield • California
Title / Office	American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1992)
Awards And Honors	Pulitzer Prize (2017) • Bollingen Prize (2007)
Notable Works	“Confessional” • “Golden State” • “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016” • “Herbert White” • “In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965–90” • “Metaphysical Dog” • “Music Like Dirt” • “Star Dust” • “The Book of the Body” • “The Sacrifice” • “Watching the Spring Festival”