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The collected works of one of contemporary poetrys most original voicesGathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His pages represent the human voice in all its extreme registers, whether its that of the child-murderer Herbert White, the obsessive anorexic Ellen West, the tormented geniu s Vaslav Nijinsky, or the poets own. And in that embodiment is a transgressive empathy, one that recognizes our wild appetites, the monsters, th...[Read more]