I should declare an interest, as parliamentarians used to say. Years ago in New York City, I was introduced to Frederick Seidel by our mutual friend Richard Poirier. Some time after, Seidel invited me to join a small dinner party he was planning to give at Elio’s. I had never heard of that restaurant, but it turned out to be a fashionable, high-toned place on New York’s Upp (...)
September 21, 2009
Poetry
Songs of Himself
Poems 1959–2009Frederick SeidelFarrar, Straus and Giroux, $40, 509 pp.
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