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Dear Editor,
What good fortune for Frederick Seidel, after fifty years of poems, to meet the likes of another poet and kindred spirit, Michael Hofmann [“So Goddamn Glamorous,” September 2009]. When Hofmann says that Seidel was “never a reviewer” however, he overlooks Seidel’s first appearance in Poetry. In January 1965 he reviewed, to what was then John Berryman’s good fortune, 77 Dream Songs.
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