Frank Bidart’s new National Book Award-winning Half-Light collects all of his poems from 1965 to 2016. In what follows, I take for granted that the book comprises an important and outstandingly original poetic achievement. Instead of attempting a review of this huge book, I’m going to obsess about one of the most recent poems in it.
Author: Mark Halliday
Mark Halliday has taught in the creative writing program at Ohio University since 1996. His sixth book of poems, Thresherphobe, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2013, and his new book Losers Dream On is due from Chicago very soon.