Chekhov's Mistress
Adam Travis Interview with Frank Bidart at Bookslut
by Bud Parr
From an interview with Frank Bidart
Frank Bidart has published several books and many poems, but this interview focuses solely on three long poems, “The First Hour of the Night,” “The Second Hour of the Night,” and “The Third Hour of the Night.” The most recent “Third Hour” first appeared in the October 2004 issue of Poetry magazine, and is the concluding piece of Bidart’s new book Star Dust out last month from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. There are certainly many things that one might want to know about Frank Bidart and his work, but the “First” “Second” and “Third” hours are so astonishingly complex and beautiful that it would be a shame not to go completely into the subject. Unlike much poetry now, these long pieces are actually interesting. I mean epically interesting – they seem to matter in a very grand, historical kind of way. Though the poems are themselves good, much of the grandeur comes from…
Read the rest at Bookslut.
My only complaint would be that the interview is way to short to cover this topic.
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