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2021 selection · Poetry

Against Silence: Poems

by Frank Bidart

NPR Books We Love · Recommendation

Against Silence: Poems by Frank Bidart appears in NPR’s 2021 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around family matters, identity & culture, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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