#frederick seidel

[firstfullmoon]

Your life is anything you want it to— And loves you more than it can show or tell.

Frederick Seidel, from “Vermont”

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Diane Ackerman. Robert Lowell. George Abbe. Anne Sexton. Lola Ridge. George Meredith. Sylvia Plath. Frederick Seidel. Charlotte Mew. Countee Cullen. Betty Adcock. Anne Sexton.

[laylaslibrary]

I went to sleep last night so I could see you.

-Frederick Seidel, from “The Last Poem in the Book,” These Days (Alfred A. Knopf, 1989)

[majestativa]

À nos mains un désir d’outre destin, quelle crainte à nos lèvres demain? (In our hands desire that transcends. What fear on our lips tomorrow?)

— René Char, Selected Poems of René Char, transl by Frederick Seidel, (1992)

[texaschainsawmascara]

Dark Paradise - Lana Del Rey / Hey Mama (Grammy Version) - Kanye West / The Last Poem in the Book, These Days - Frederick Seidel (Alfred A. Knopf) / Sleepover - Hayley Kiyoko / R.E.M. - Ariana Grande / Fairytale (Let Me Live My Life This Way) - Rebecca Ferguson / In Real Life - Demi Lovato / Gone - Jerry Cantrell / Song for Eric - Tori Amos / Growing Pains, Dog Days - Ethel Cain

[thefudge]

Bestie you seems to have great taste and i need to know what’s your favorite poetry books

aww thank you! i have pretty standard taste in poetry books, i dig a lot of the usual suspects, and i can't really list them all, but i CAN recommend two poetry books i read recently and really loved:

gregory orr, orpheus & eurydice: a lyric sequence ("everything had lost its voice and listened now inside,/ listened to Orpheus")

frederick seidel, evening man - the poem "boys" from this collection will always twist a knife in me, especially that last line "thank god for your daddy, boy"

[jbfletcher]

City

Right now, a dog tied up in the street is barking With the grief of being left, A dog bereft. Right now, a car is parking.

The dog emits Petals of a barking flower and barking flakes of snow That float upward from the street below To where another victim sits:

Who listens to the whole city And the dog honking like a car alarm, And doesn't mean the dog any harm, And doesn't feel any pity.

-- Frederick Seidel

[asoftepiloguemylove]

"I went to sleep last night so I could see you."

Frederick Seidel, The Last Poem in the Book, "These Days"

[poem-today]

A poem by Frederick Seidel

The Owl You Heard

The owl you heard hooting In the middle of the night wasn’t me. It was an owl. Or maybe you were So asleep you didn’t even hear it. The sprinklers on their timer, programmed to come on At such a strangely late hour in life For watering a garden, Refreshed your sleep four thousand miles away by Hissing sweetly, Deepening the smell of green in Eden. You heard the summer chirr of insects. You heard a sky of stars. You didn’t know it, fast asleep at dawn in Paris. You didn’t hear a thing. You heard me calling. I am no longer human.

Frederick Seidel

Listen to the author reading his poem.

[jonathanjudge]

[funituregonewrong]

Frederick Seidel reads his poem "Bologna"

[theblackestofsuns]

Poems 1959-2009 (2009)

Frederick Seidel

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

[undercoveroutcast]

“I went to sleep last night so I could see you.”

- Frederick Seidel ‘The Last Poem in the Book’, These Days

[septemberkisses]

To be loved is to be known; to be seen.

Excerpts Sources:

Is it okay to say this? - Trista Masteer // Blasted - Sarah Kane // Reassurances to Hades - Kristina Haynes // The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - T.J. Reid // My Mother/Madame Edwarda/The Dead Man - Georges Bataille //"The Last Poem in the Book," These Days (Alfred A. Knopf, 1989); Over and over again - Frederick Seidel // My Mother/Madame Edwarda/The Dead Man - Georges Bataille // Adult Children of Emotionaly Immature Parents - Lindsay C. Gibson // She Satisfies A Fear with the Rhetoric of Tears - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz // My Life Is Pathetic! - Heather Havrilesky

[majestativa]

Recognized only by the eyelids of my lover. Nights of savage newness found for me again the flaming saliva that connects and perfumed the fevered connection.

— René Char, Selected Poems of René Char, transl by Frederick Seidel, (1992)

[daremna]

sources:

1. The Inferno, Canto 24, Gustave Dore 2. Nathaniel Orion G.K. 3. Supervert, Necrophilia Variations 4. Cassandra Clare, Dark Artifices 5. Death and the Maiden, Takato Yamamoto 6. William Shakespeare, As You Like It 7. @thatantisocialbitch 8. The Silent Voice (1989), Alfred Lord 9. author unknown 10. (the playwrights will write your names in the darkness of the sky) 11. Émile Jean Horace Vernet, The Angel of Death (1852) 12. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1937) 13. Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace 14. Eliza Crewe, Crushed 15. Yoshitaka Amano, The Endless Desire 16. Maram Rimawi 17. Farouq Jwaideh 18. Mary Shelley, Mathilda 19. Włodzimierz Błocki, Kiss of Death (1902) 20. Psalm 139:8 21. Jason Chan, Fall 22. Asmita Sengupta 23. Frederick Seidel, The Last Poem in the Book 23. Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid 24. Anne Bachelier 25. Konstantin Makovsky, Demon and Tamara