The 50 Best American Poetry Books of the Decade so Far

By Jonathon Sturgeon on Apr 21, 2015 - Flavorwire

No poem in the preceding decade captured the spirit of the times more than Frederick Seidel’s “December.” The product of a Faustian pact, it fixed itself in a fiendish dialectic, a self-canceling logic that likewise trapped the reader like a dying fly — in the politics of the War on Terror, in the axiomatic hell of the Bush presidency. … Read More