“There is something missing in our definition, vision, of a human being: the need to make.”

Frank Bidart, who won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, explores this “need to make” in the twenty-part poem “Advice to the Players.” Yes, that’s right: twenty parts. He’s known for psychological complexity and paradoxical observations, and this poem provides both.  For example, he writes, “Horrible is the fate … Read More