[Frederick] Seidel told me during dinner, ruefully. "I got lots of extraordinarily unpleasant mail." At first, it would seem easy to understand why. In a poem that features an old man having sex with a very young woman, so frank a statement as "A naked woman my age is just a total nightmare" could seem uncomplicatedly cruel, could seem merely cruel. And yet, aging is a nightmare, totally so, a nightmare from which each of us--when we become, inevitably, "the train wreck" the poet has by poem's end--would only too gladly awake.from The New York Times: Laureate of the Louche
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