[New-Poetry] Best American poet: Seidel

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I'm curious if everything he does is such sing songy doggerel as the stuff quoted in the article. I mean, I can see that being a nice effect sometimes, but i think a whole book of it would be kind of tedious.

On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, David Graham wrote:

> Who's the best contemporary American poet?  Well, according to Adam Kirsch, it 
> just may be Frederick Seidel.
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> http://www.nysun.com/article/44784
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> I looked at all the anthologies on my shelf and did not find any of his work, 
> with the exception of one piece in Jorie Graham's edition of *Best American 
> Poetry*.  I have probably run across some poems in journals over the years, but 
> frankly nothing that made me want to seek out more.  I've located a handful of 
> piece online today, and I confess I've found nothing that tallies even remotely 
> with Kirsch's claim.
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> Any Seidel fans out there?
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