Frank Bidart's New Poems Sing Hymns to a Meaningless Universe

Charleston City Paper | August 6, 2008
His excellent new book, Watching the Spring Festival, reflects a man feeling his age, the slip of time, and the tug of oblivion. It attempts to confront the paradox of being while trying to inscribe something lasting, and also expressing unblinkingly man's cosmic dilemma -- that maybe, just maybe, there is no exit.

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