Black Balloons
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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.
Anthony Seidman
Anthony Seidman is the author of On Carbon-Dating Hunger and Where Thirsts Intersect (The Bitter Oleander, ) as well as I WILL NOT BE A BUTCHER FOR THE WEALTHY (Eyewear, 2017) and A SLEEPLESS MAN SITS UP IN BED (Eyewear, 2017). His poems, articles and translations have appeared widely in Mexico, and his work has been included in the anthologies Corresponding Voices (Point of Contact / Syracuse University), The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press) and Asymmetries: An Anthology of Peruvian Poetry (Cardboard House Press). He has recently published work in Bengal Lights, Drunken Boat, Nimrod, World Literature Today, and Modern Poetry In Translation. Seidman resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.
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