theparisreview:“This poet was asserting what felt like an...

theparisreview:

“This poet was asserting what felt like an ancient right, a right to sing out of the deepest self—to write painfully ugly things, and to write painfully beautiful things, but not to write a single thing that he didn’t mean, that didn’t scare him.”

From our Spring Revel, John Jeremiah Sullivan’s remarks on the poet Frederick Seidel.