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The poet hurts, his "scab is a lake where bull shark flits toward chum." In punchy, clipped poetic prose, he parses out our commonweal psychic pain, each poem a blind alley in which he must retrace his steps to get to the next imagistic manifesto. As always, Seidman is a master of lacerating catalogues, each noun the flick-lash of a whip, regicide the endgame.
About the author
Anthony Seidman is a poet and translator, born and raised in Los Angeles, and who has spent significant stretches of his life living in Ciudad Juarez and Mexicali, Mexico. He currently resides in the San Fernando Valley with his wife, author Nylsa Martinez, and his two children. His most recent books include That Beast in the Mirror (Black Herald Press: London-Chartres), a bilingual gathering of his poetry with translations rendered into French by poet Blandine Longre, and Cosmic Weather (Spuyten Duyvil, New York). Cardboard House Press published his translation of Contra Natura by Rodolfo Hinostroza in 2022, and additional poems, translations, reviews, and articles have appeared in such journals as Latin American Literature Today, Ambit, New American Writing, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry International, Rattle, as well as in literary magazines from Chile, Argentina, and Mexico.
