Great Regulars: The moment of recall triggered

by the later poem gives you the actual experience of remembrance that is what this book is largely about. And it is vital to know how [Frank] Bidart's poems work in order to fully appreciate what he is trying to get across in them.

Together, the poems provide a kind of spectrographic analysis of the crystal that is the self, and if the "Ulanova" poem is the centerpiece of the collection, the poem that seems best to encapsulate it is "Seduction."

from Frank Wilson: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Remembering, reconnecting, Bidart reveals himself

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