cfc's review against another edition
5.0
I've enjoyed dipping into this volume ever since a friend of mine -- a devoted but not academic poet -- brought Frederick Seidel ("the Laureate of the Louches," as an excellent NYTimes Magazine portrait of Seidel put it a few years ago) to my attention. Seidel is intelligent and entertaining. Robert Lowell heralded his first book as the best book of poetry published in the U.S. in decades. That was long ago, of course (1970s?), so you might ask, what happened to the guy? Well, he's kept writing and living in NYC, but few have noticed his gifts. Very few poets excite me like this. I'm glad Steve passed it along.
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