Talking With Frank Bidart

May, 2013

One of America's greatest poets explores his work with James FrancoFrank Bidart is one of America's greatest liv­ing poets. As author of Music Like Dirt, the only chapbook to be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and winner of some of poetry's most prestigious awards, he still manages to stand apart from the poetry in-crowd. In this conver­sation with his friend playboy Contributing Editor James Franco, Bidart discusses how poetry works, how much it pays and his forth­coming book of poems, Metaphys...