Frederick Seidel
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Polypropos
Wikipedia Poem, No. 745 contemporary show-offs hair and little punchy verbs in all the right places some high round oogleables sweet averroes retweets roxane gay are we desirable astride rare machinery life jackhammered by rounded-off cobbles wet at four a.m. pardner don’t get on a bike blazing in medias res down a texas highway…
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A Conversation About Frederick Seidel Between an Elementary School Teacher and a Hungry Upper West Side Pigeon
Wikipedia Poem, No. 665 either upon this trace of tree an endless sea and home how do ye murmur out in barren mazes or cyclades or the islands of king solomon one-off i want to become and that i want to become and then i want to become a legendary cameo pinned on i want who…
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Frederick Seidel
Wikipedia Poem, No. 446 self ego oneself I myself me my humble self number one yours truly yourself himself herself itself yourselves inner self inner man subliminal sub conscious self superego better self ethical self other self alter ego alter alterum consume spend expend use up absorb assimilate digest ingest eat eat up swallow swallow…
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Wikipedia Poem, No. 255
carrion she depends on charity tossing love from the third century braced below by remains clarity skeletal american military air base arms force her forward heart unsuccessfully toward the hungry police at river edge coup shed night like a shroud upend martial chaos and circle overhead Source: Arango, Tim, and Ceylan Yeginsu. “President of Turkey Urges Resistance…
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“Dante’s Beatrice” by Frederick Seidel (2006)
I ride a racer to erase her. Bent over like a hunchback. Racing leathers now include a hump That protects the poet’s spine and neck. I wring the thing out, two hundred miles an hour. I am a mink on a mink ranch determined not To die inside its valuable fur, inside my racesuit. I…
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