Winner of the 2004 Green Rose Prize

“Hugh Seidman’s flexible, deft prosody, and his wry, bittersweet address to the sad, foolish predicaments of contemporary American life, are proof, yet again, of his importance. In an age of what Henry James called ‘tremendous trash,’ his work fairly shines with authenticity and integrity.”

—Gilbert Sorrentino

“An American original and even stronger than that, these last four decades, till these poems anchored by their extreme facts and debris-like assembling remind us of who this man Seidman has always been becoming, this maker made by his irreducible materials.”

—Joseph McElroy

Praise for Selected Poems: 1965-1995:

“Whether adding new elegies for both father and mother, rethinking our use of napalm thirty years ago, or looking at photos of present-day atrocities, Seidman’s voice contains a unique combination of ecstasy and anguish.”

—American Book Review

Praise for People Live, They Have Lives:

“Seidman writes tough poems . . . They take their corners sharply, often going way over the speed limit. Yet they can stop on a dime, purr, suddenly levitate, and leave the reader gasping for air.”

—Norman Finkelstein, Denver Quarterly

New Issues Poetry & Prose, Western Michigan University, Dept. of English,
1903 W. Michigan Ave., Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5331
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