Pretty savage dismantling of Seidel hete, Doug, Max, not least in terms of
its publishing timing.
http://towncrier.puritan-magazine.com/debate/ballad-of-ferguson/
Mind you, puritan magazine?
Bill
On Wednesday, 8 June 2016, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I confess Ive only read his poems in the LRB, & am not sure if I ‘like’
> them or not. He revels, with great irony, in his ‘place’ as a rich
> connoisseur of a rich life, but the interview suggests the ironies are
> meant to cut.
>
> What he says about wanting to be ‘heard’ in the poems is interesting, as
> he works end rhyme hard, for it sometimes seems to me obvious laughs…
>
> I don’t feel the need to read that much more of his work (have too many
> other works to read anyway).
>
> Doug
> > On Jun 6, 2016, at 7:54 PM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > Seidel: anything on line I find striking
> >
> > inc the Ferguson one, but scary,
> >
> > or am I too nervy?
> >
> > Max
> >
> >
> > On Jun 6, 2016, at 17:51, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> >> Well he is new to me, Max but like Seidel, in my own small way of
> course, I
> >> too
> >>
> >> feel, when I’m not writing, less well than when I am. When I am
> writing, I
> >> feel that my life is busy. That I’m a creature with a purpose. When I’m
> >> not, I feel a bit floaty. Sometimes, not always, that’s not a pleasant
> >> feeling. It’s something you have to put up with, of course – you can’t
> >> write all the time.
> >>
> >> Interesting about R D Laing and crowd being stony musicians. Have yet to
> >> read any of Seidel's poetry. Would you recommend starting with this
> latest!?
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
> >> On Tuesday, 7 June 2016, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/06/frederick-seidel-interview-widening-income-inequality
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/11/25/the-ballad-of-ferguson-missouri/
> >>>
> >>> Seidel I guess is very pained about what happened in Ferguson,
> >>>
> >>> but a lot of the time I just can’t follow him…
> >>>
> >>> Max in Seattle
>
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