Frank Bidart writes of Music Like Dirt, "I wanted to make a sequence in which the human need to make is seen as not only central but inescapable. I wanted not a tract, but a tapestry in which making is seen in the context of the other processes--sexuality, mortality--inseparable from it." "Bidart has patiently amassed as profound and original a body of work as any now being written in this country. He has given form for our age to...