Frederick Seidel lives in New York City.
"The most frightening American poet ever--phallus-man, hangman of
political barbarism--Seidel is the poet the twentieth century
deserved."--Calvin Bedient, "Boston"" Review""He radiates heat. It
is apparent that he has asked himself frightful questions and has
not dodged the implications of their equally frightful answers . .
. A master of metaphor."--Louise Bogan, "The New Yorker""Beguiling
and magisterial."--Joel Brouwer, "The New York Times Book
Review""Profoundly beautiful . . . The writer willing to say the
unsayable."--Philip Connors, "n+1""The best verse out of the United
States since whenever."--Joe Fiorito, "The Toronto Star""Among the
two or three finest poets writing in English."--Alex Halberstadt, "
New York""""["Final Solutions"] seems to me one of the most moving
and powerful books of poetry to have come along in years."--Anthony
Hecht, "The New York Review of Books"""Area Code 212" [is] our new
"Waste"" Land," as monitory and radical . . . as Eliot's poem was
in 1922."--George Held, "The Philadelphia Inquirer""A triumphant
outsider in American poetry . . . He takes risks utterly
unthinkable, even as merely mutinous provocation, in an academic
workshop."--Ernest Hilbert, "Contemporary Poetry Review""["Life on
Earth"] is an exemplary book . . . One of the best by an American
poet in the past twenty years."--Michael Hofmann, "The Times
Literary Supplement""One of the world's most inspired and unusual
poets . . . His poems are a triumph of cosmic awe in the face of
earthly terror." --Hillel Italie, "USA"" Today""In American poetry
today there is no one with Frederick Seidel's sheer ambition,
comprehensive sense of our times, sophistication, nerve and skill .
. . One of the most vital and important poets we have."--Lawrence
Joseph, "The Nation""The excellent table manners combined with a
savage display of appetite: this is what everyone notices in
Seidel. Yet he wouldn't be so special or powerful a poet of what's
cruel, corrupt, and horrifying had he not also lately shown himself
to be a great poet of innocence."--Benjamin Kunkel, " Harper's
Magazine""In the desert of contemporary American poetry, Frederick
Seidel's work awaits the weary reader like an oasis."--James
Lasdun, "The Guardian""Here is the new kind of visionary, the
person who really wants to change the world fast, the person who
believes in something."--Adam Phillips, "Raritan""Frederick Seidel
is a ghoul, and he has produced this nascent century's finest
collection of English poems."--Michael Robbins, "Chicago""
Review""""Frederick Seidel, for fifty years and across ten
collections, has been writing our most serious, beautiful, and
essential poems, poems that are shocking in their art and
astonishing in their truth, and that remind us, in their forms, why
poetry was once a vital part of cultural life"--Wyatt Mason,
"Harper's ""Weekend Read"
“The most frightening American poet ever—phallus-man, hangman
of political barbarism—Seidel is the poet the twentieth century
deserved.”—Calvin Bedient, "Boston"" Review"“He radiates heat. It
is apparent that he has asked himself frightful questions and has
not dodged the implications of their equally frightful answers . .
. A master of metaphor.”—Louise Bogan, "The New Yorker"“Beguiling
and magisterial.”—Joel Brouwer, "The New York Times Book
Review"“Profoundly beautiful . . . The writer willing to say the
unsayable.”—Philip Connors, "n]1"“The best verse out of the United
States since whenever.”—Joe Fiorito, "The Toronto Star"“Among the
two or three finest poets writing in English.”—Alex Halberstadt, "
New York"" "“["Final Solutions"] seems to me one of the most moving
and powerful books of poetry to have come along in years.”
"Among the two or three finest poets writing in English." --"New
York "magazine "One of the world's most inspired and unusual
poets." --"USA Today ""Beguiling and magisterial." --Joel Brouwer,
"The New York Times Book Review "
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