Anthony Seidman

I just had to search and see if I'd already covered him, Anthony Seidman. He's an incredible talent--I saw his work "Hart Crane in the Islands" here in Rattle issue 22, winter 2004 and then his 2013 poetry volume Natural History of Asphalt; it's reviewed here in HTMLGiant [it's a great review, so read it if you like Seidman].

He's like Hemingway on verse. I love his style, imagery and ideas. Here's an excerpt from "Hart Crane in the Islands":

He kept a rum bottle on the mahogany desk. All day, the rhythm, like calibrated pistons pumping, [..]

and the smoke and lachrymae of the Americas into his blue estuary.

Mornings spent on the sun dazzled shore. Late afternoons peeling mangos in an esplanade beneath 

the green shade of trees; and then, slowly, the colors of the aquatic dusk. [...]