“My line is childlike but not childish. It is very difficult to fake... to get that quality you need to project yourself into the child's line. It has to be felt."
When I began this poem, to see myself as a piece of history, having a past which shapes, and informs, and thus inevitably limits— at first this seemed sufficient, the beginning of freedom ... The way to approach freedom was to acknowledge necessity:— I sensed I had to become not merely a speaker, the “eye,” but a character ... Frank Bidart