Seidel is the great controversialist of American poetry. Dubbed a
'transgressive adventurer,' a 'demonic gentleman,' a 'triumphant
outsider,' a 'great poet of innocence,' and 'an example of the dangerous
Male of the Species', his sly, witty and wide-eyed poems seem earnest
one moment and flippant the next, and will see him rotating his caustic
fire from high-society cocktail parties to street-level poverty,
genocide to Obamacare, New York to Syria. He's never more than a
turn-line from humour, and it is often when he is at his funniest that
he is also at his most shocking.
The Independent said of
his last collection: 'There is no contemporary poet writing in English
as witty, as shrewd, as touching and as debonair as Frederick Seidel.
That's a lot of praise, but he surely merits it.'
Widening Income Inequality,
Seidel's new collection, is a rhymed magnificence of sexual,
historical, and cultural exuberance. Rarely has poetry been this dapper,
or this dire, or this true.
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