- Why did Frank Bidart choose to address this specific topic of anorexia in his poem? Did he feel like it was a topic that was commonly overlooked at the time and thus needed some attention brought to it?
- I know that Edmund White regarded the poem as “a work that displays Bidart’s talents at their most exacting, their most insistent” but was Bidart’s reason for writing the poem more personal than to display his talents? Did someone in his family possible suffer from anorexia and is that why he chose to write such a dramatic monologue.
Ellen West by Frank Bidart – Question on the Reading
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