3 Ergebnisse.

The poet hurts, his "scab is a lake where bull shark flits toward chum." In punchy, clipped poetic prose, he parses out our commonweal psychic pain, each poem a blind alley in which he must retrace his steps to get to the next imagistic manifesto. As always, Seidman is a master of lacerating catalogues, each noun the flick-lash of a whip, regicide the endgame.

Poetry. California Interest. Absurd yet rational, Anthony Seidman'sI WILL NOT BE A BUTCHER FOR THE WEALTHY is an uncomfortable indictment of contemporary America, and truly, this collection shows the relevance of poetry as political criticism. Writing on the plight of post-industrial landscapes, colonial impositions, and US politics, Seidman's poems are situated in the Surrealist tradition of French and Spanish writers such as Lorca and Desnos...

Poetry. A SLEEPLESS MAN SITS UP IN BED, the third collection by the poet and translator Anthony Seidman, charts a cartography of the here and the beyond--from the fossils of trilobites to Aztec religious beliefs--and grounds itself in the political and artistic borderlands between the United States and Mexico. Drawing on the time the author spent living in Ciudad Juarez, this innovative collection converses with the great poets of the border r...