Frederick Seidel

Jun 26, 2024 | nytimes.com | Frederick Seidel

SO WHAT: Poems, by Frederick SeidelFrederick Seidel's best poems balance on a razor's edge between diagnosing what's wrong and being in the wrong. Like his previous 18 volumes, "So What" concerns aesthetic pursuits and bodily trouble, deeply felt personal losses and the jangle of harm and horror in the world. At nearly 140 pages, the book includes poems that feel like rehashes of past techniques and touch points, with a depleted sense of urgency.

Jun 25, 2024 | lithub.com | Frederick Seidel

1937Article continues belowIt’s always about to rain exceptWhen it’s already raining, like now. They go from the pub to the cinema through the rain,To the newsreel and the Disney cartoon,With tickets that are half-priceOne day a week in the afternoon. It was the Basque city of Guernica last week,Weeping under airplanes dropping bombs. Walt Disney is not Picasso,But his art is gloriously sunny,But Mickey Mouse has already saidThe poems of Lorca will never be funny.

Jun 25, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Frederick Seidel

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May 30, 2024 | nybooks.com | Frederick Seidel

People walk aroundWith people in their head. What some lovely person did. What some lovely person said. Heartthrob in the head. I float to 86th Street with you in my heart. I’m a pigeon cooing to a crumb of bread,Except I’m kind of floating instead—And it’s not a crumb but a whole loaf of bread. I feel I’m in an ambulance and you’re about to save meWith a Kit KatAnd a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. I’m in an ambulanceWith my teeth comically chattering.

Feb 29, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | Jane Hirshfield |Frederick Seidel

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