As a reader, do you think it’s hard to appreciate Frank Bidart’s ability to tell stories due to its content? Bidart claims he started writing poetry “trying to be ‘universal’ by making the entire poem out of assertions and generalization about the world—with a very thin sense of a complicated, surprising, opaque world outside myself that resisted the patterns [he] was asserting.” Do you think Bidart was successful i making his poems less general and narrow-minded after writing pieces such as this and Ellen West?