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Dylan Thomas famously wrote "Old age should burn and rave at close of day," advice expertly followed by Bidart, now 82, in this new (after the Pulitzer Prize—winning Half Light), smoldering collection of forthright lyric poems. In the book's longest poem, "The Fifth Hour of the Night," a bitter, unshakeable memory of childhood acquiescence in the face of a grandmother's racism ("I never forgave h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More