[New-Poetry] Best American poet: Seidel

[JforJames at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/10/2006 10:17:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net writes:

Didn't know he was a student of Vendler's.   Does he write poetry himself, do 
you  know?



Kirsch did publish a book of poem in the near past. I've not read it...so  
can't say
much. I seldom agree with his reviews...but I'm happy someone/anyone is  
placing 
poetry book reviews in major periodicals.
 
Seidel I've followed a little for a few reasons. He came from St.  Louis, 
after TS Eliot
and before me. There is an oddity to his poetry,  a  quirkiness, often driven 
by 
fractured diction or a skewed perspective...these things I find intriguing.  
I don't 
associate him with rhyme...but maybe I don't hear rhyme the way others  do.
He writes about things no one else would and he probably shouldn't have. 
He's published quite a few collections...but I don't know if I've seen  a 
Selected. 
He's not the chatty New York poet talking with a bagel hanging out
of the side of his mouth. The last book of his I read was My Tokyo  and
that's got to be decade old...so I can't say I'm entirely up to speed  on his
recent work. Somehow I think of him as 'outsider poet' even though  he's
published by FSG.
Finnegan
 
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