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Author: BIDART, FRANK Matches Found: 87 Bidart, Frank Poet's Biography 87 poems available by this author 2 First Line: When %once, pursuing the enslaving enemies and enslaving protectors Last Line: Using the means in which he beliebed, %this system in which in every sentence you can insert not ADOLESCENCE First Line: He stared up into my eyes with a look Last Line: I still remember his look ADVICE TO THE PLAYERS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: There is something missing in our definition, vision, of a human being: ADVICE TO THE PLAYERS First Line: There is something missing in our definition, vision of a human Last Line: Go make you ready AN AMERICAN IN HOLLYWOOD Recitation by Author Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Movies; Cinema ANOTHER LIFE First Line: In a dream I never exactly dreamed Last Line: Fresco of my life AS THE EYE TO THE SUN First Line: To plotinus what we seek is vision Last Line: But once you have seen a hand cut off you have begun BORGES AND I First Line: We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them Last Line: With much blank white space BY THESE WATERS Poem Text First Line: What begins in recognition Last Line: By these waters on my knees I have wept Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men BY THESE WATERS First Line: What begins in recognition Last Line: By these waters on my knees I have wept Subject(s): Homosexuality CALIFORNIA PLUSH Poem Text First Line: He only thing I miss about los angeles Subject(s): Cities And Towns; Los Angeles, California COIN FOR JOE, WITH THE IMAGE OF A HORSE; C. 350-325 BC First Line: Coin %chip of the closed -- lost world, toward whose unseen grasses Last Line: Closed world - angel CONFESSIONAL Poem Text First Line: Is she dead? Last Line: No, I didn't forgive her Subject(s): Forgiveness; Gays & Lesbians; Clemency; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men CONFESSIONAL First Line: Is she dead? Subject(s): Forgiveness; Homosexuality CURSE First Line: May breath for a dead moment cease as jerking your Last Line: The skin of another, what I have made is a curse DARK NIGHT Poem Text First Line: In a dark night, when the light Subject(s): John Of The Cross, Saint (1542-1591) ELEGY: 4. LIGHT First Line: I am asleep, dreaming a terrible dream, so I awake Last Line: The lights in that room do not go on ELEGY: 5. LINEAGE First Line: I went to a mausoleum today, and found Last Line: I want to be buried in a mausoleum at eye-level ELLEN WEST Poem Text First Line: I love sweets Subject(s): Eating Disorders ELLEN WEST First Line: I love sweets FOR BILL NESTRICK Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Out of the rectitude and narrow care of those who Subject(s): Scholarship & Scholars FOR BILL NESTRICK (1940-96) First Line: Out of the rectitude and narrow care of those who Last Line: Mysterious lapse your brilliant %appetite for the moment FOR THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Bound, hungry to pluck again from the thousand / technologies of ecstasy Last Line: In all but szigeti’s hands Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men FOR THE TWENTIETH CENTURY First Line: Bound, hungry to pluck again from the thousand %technologies of ecstasy Last Line: Newspaper clippings, become words %not their own words. The art of the performer Subject(s): Homosexuality GOLDEN STATE Poem Text First Line: To see my father Subject(s): Family Life; Death - Fathers; Divorce; Relatives GOLDEN STATE First Line: To see my father GUILTY OF DUST Poem Text First Line: Up or down from the infinite c e n t e r GUILTY OF DUST First Line: Up or down from the infinite center Last Line: What you love is your fate HAMMER Poem Text Recitation First Line: To be both author of Last Line: This statue, and the statue itself Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Self HAMMER First Line: To be both author of Last Line: Dreams it can descend upon itslef Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Self HAMMER First Line: The stone arm raising a stone hammer Last Line: To be both author of %this statue, and the statue itself HAPPY BIRTHDAY First Line: Thirty-three, goodbye Last Line: They didn't plan it that way HEART BEAT Poem Text First Line: Ear early tuned to hear beneath the call to end HEART BEAT First Line: Ear early tuned to hear beneath the call to end Last Line: Beneath the melody the ground-bass less life less life HERBERT WHITE Poem Text First Line: When I hit her on the head, it was good Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Divorce; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness HOMO FABER First Line: Whatever lies still uncarried from the abyss Last Line: Dies with me IF I COULD MOURN LIKE A MOURNING DOVE Poem Text First Line: It is what recurs that we believe Last Line: Solemn my love to you, frank Subject(s): Love; Mourning; Bereavement IF I COULD MOURN LIKE A MOURNING DOVE First Line: It is what recurs that we believe Last Line: Solemn my love to you, frank Subject(s): Love; Mourning IF SEE NO END IS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: What none knows is when, not if. IN MEMORY OF JOE BRAINARD Poem Text First Line: The remnants of a vast, oceanic IN MEMORY OF JOE BRAINARD First Line: The remnant of a vast, oceanic Last Line: Made of earth, and will betray it IN THE WESTERN NIGHT: 1. THE IRREPARABLE Poem Text First Line: First, I was there where unheard Last Line: Massed above the towers, rushing Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN THE WESTERN NIGHT: 1. THE IRREPARABLE First Line: First, I was there where unheard Last Line: Massed above the towers, rushing Subject(s): Homosexuality IN THE WESTERN NIGHT: 2. IN MY DESK Poem Text First Line: Two cigarette butts - / left by you Last Line: Now the envelope is in my desk Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN THE WESTERN NIGHT: 2. IN MY DESK First Line: Two cigarette butts - %left by you Last Line: Now the envelope is in my desk Subject(s): Homosexuality IN THE WESTERN NIGHT: 3. TWO MEN Poem Text First Line: The man who does not know himself, who Last Line: You, through the waters (you are cruel) fleeing Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN THE WESTERN NIGHT: 3. TWO MEN First Line: The man who does not know himself, who Last Line: You chip of the incommensurate %closed world angel Subject(s): Homosexuality IN THE WESTERN NIGHT: EPILOGUE. A STANZA FROM HORACE Poem Text First Line: At night in dreams I hold you INJUNCTION Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: As if the names we use to name the uses of buildings INJUNCTION First Line: As if the names we use to name the uses of buildings Last Line: The wall. Outside %time. Nail it LADY BIRD First Line: Neither an invalid aunt who hd been asked to care for a sister's Last Line: The living, and wish for the dead LAMENT FOR THE MAKERS First Line: Not bird not badger not beaver not bee Last Line: Teach me, masters who by making were %remade, your art LAMENT TO THE MAKERS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Not bird not badger not beaver not bee Subject(s): Dunbar, William (1465-1520); Family Life; Relatives LEGACY Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When to the desert, the dirt, LEGACY First Line: When to the desert, the dirt, %comes water Last Line: There was no gift %outright we were never the land's LITTLE FUGUE Poem Text First Line: At birth you were handed a ticket Subject(s): Life LITTLE FUGUE First Line: At birth you were handed a ticket Last Line: Beneath every journey the ticket to this %journey in one direction LOVE INCARNATE Poem Text First Line: To all those driven berserk or humanized by love Subject(s): Love LOVE INCARNATE First Line: To all those driven berserek or humanized by love Last Line: Submissively, as if afraid, as love wept LUGGAGE Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: You wear your body as if without Last Line: Rise like grief before you Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Self; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LUGGAGE First Line: You wear your body as if without Last Line: Rise like grief before you Subject(s): Homosexuality; Self MUSIC LIKE DIRT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: I will not I will not I said but as my body turned in the solitary MUSIC LIKE DIRT First Line: I will not I will not I said but as my body turned in the solitary Last Line: Bed it said but he loves me which broke my will NOW IN YOUR HAND: 1. VICTOR HUGO: PREFACE TO LES MISERABLES First Line: So long as, on this earth, in our civilization, fixed there by its laws Last Line: Books such as the one now in your hand will not, I think be,perhaps, %useless OVERHEARD THROUGH THE WALLS OF THE INVISIBLE CITY First Line: Telling those who swarm around him his desire Last Line: (we are the wheel to which we are bound) POEM IN THE STANZA OF THE RUBAIYAT First Line: 1. Spirit %the present and the future are the past Last Line: Substancelessness to stone, is this night one %more thing you'll try to kill in you to live? POEM IS A VEIL First Line: V e I l,-as if silk that you in fury must thrust repeatedly Last Line: Catches, clinging to its physiognomy RETURN First Line: As the retreating bructeri began to burn their own Last Line: Germanicus, retreated into pathless country ROMAIN CLEROU First Line: When I asked if she was in pain he said Last Line: Martha. His name was clerou: dr. Romain clerou SACRIFICE First Line: When judas writes the history of solitude Last Line: Death fought, before giving in Subject(s): Guilt; Homosexuality SECOND HOUR OF THE NIGHT First Line: On such a night Last Line: This is the end of the second hour of the night SELF-PORTRAIT, 1969 First Line: He's still young -; thirty, but looks younger Last Line: Crash. What reaches him except disaster? SONG Poem Text First Line: You know that it is there, lair STANZAS ENDING WITH THE SAME TWO WORDS Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: At first I felt shame because I had entered Subject(s): Death; Dead, The STANZAS ENDING WITH THE SAME TWO WORDS First Line: At first I felt shame because I had entered Last Line: You were still hungry at your death THE OLD MAN AT THE WHEEL Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: Measured against the immeasurable THE POEM IS A VEIL Poem Text Recitation by Author Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE RETURN Poem Text First Line: As the retreating bructeri began to burn their own THE SACRIFICE Poem Text First Line: When judas writes the history of solitude Last Line: Death fought; before giving in Subject(s): Guilt; Cancer (disease); Suicide; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men THE SECOND HOUR OF THE NIGHT: 3 Poem Text First Line: On such a night, at such an hour, THE THIRD HOUR OF THE NIGHT Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: When the eye Subject(s): Sculpture & Sculptors THE YOKE Poem Text First Line: Don't worry -- I know you're dead Last Line: Turn your face again Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Bereavement TO THE DEAD Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: What I hope (when I hope) is that we'll Subject(s): Death; Dead, The YOKE First Line: Don't worry -- I know you're dead Last Line: Turn your face again Subject(s): Death; Homosexuality; Mourning YOU REMAIN First Line: You remain, bride whose recourse has been silence, and absence: Last Line: Muse, autodidact, collector, %renew its inmate dedicated to you YOUNG MARX Poem Text Recitation by Author First Line: That man's own life is an object for him. That animals Subject(s): Marx, Karl (1818-1883) YOUNG MARX First Line: That man's own life is an object for him. That animals Last Line: Jesus, too many sins were committed in his name |
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