Thursday, September 13, 2012

Indeterminate man …

… Is Frederick Seidel the Best Jewish American Poet You’ve Never Heard Of? – Tablet Magazine. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… it was a kind of shame that the real, bodily Seidel stepped out of the shadows of his work. A large part of the transgressive power of his poems comes from the indeterminacy of the man who speaks in them.

See also: Frederick Seidel's sordid glory.

(Hat tip, Dave lull.)

2 comments:

  1. Hi Frank, I am not a big reader of poetry but to me, these poems sound unnecessarily cynical. Maybe there's a reason but why create art that repeats the obvious?

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  2. I am actually not a fan of Seidel's poetry.

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