That's interesting; I'm not so sure about Seidel's poetry. I've read a
few in the LB, as well as the review there, & what poems I have seen
simply dont reach me. He's doing something possiby quite interesting
with 'confessional' (or is it a very interestingly perverse self-
praise?), but my general response to the poems Ive seen was So what?
Personal taste & all that....
I remember reading my father's volume of Aubrey with some delight when
I was a teenager....
Especially the story of Sir Walter Raleigh & the maid....
Doug
On 7-Feb-10, at 8:54 PM, Max Richards wrote:
> In the late 17th century, the Englishman John Aubrey described sin-
> eating like
> so:
> “When the Corps was brought out of the house, and layd on the Biere,
> a Loafe of
> Breade was brought out, and delivered to the Sinne-eater over the
> Corps . . . in
> consideration whereof he tooke upon him (ipso facto) all of the
> Sinnes of the
> Defunct, and freed him (or her) from walking after they were dead.”
>
> In Aubrey’s telling, the sin-eaters were poor people at society’s
> margin, in
> particular “a long, leane, ugly, lamentable poor raskal” who lived
> alone,
> presumably surrounded by the many sins he had spent a lifetime
> taking on.
>
> [from David's Orr's NYT review of Frederick Seidel's CP]
>
> !!
>
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