Background
Seidman, Hugh was born on August 1, 1940 in Brooklyn. Son of Monas Seidman and Susan Grossman.
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Hugh Seidman's first book of poetry, Collecting Evidence, was chosen by Stanley Kunitz for the 1970 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize. In People Live, They Have Lives, Seidman continues his unflinching exploration of the human condition while avoiding the discursive trappings of much contemporary poetry. The precise use of language in the poem "Mouse" underscores his talent and skill: "Delicate elephant ears./ Pointed fox snout./ Chicken feet that scratched/ where the stove cable goes from his world to this one." Many of his poems are tender and austere explorations of age and of the relationship between a son and his parents: "What does a mother dream in a Brooklyn nursing home?/ Days measured by the Atlantic./ Each day like each day." (from "The Senile") and "What will a father will? Nothing but a son./ A face beside itself in the bedside shaving mirror." (from "Hospital"). The full range of Hugh Seidman's work may be sampled in Selected Poems: 1965-1995.
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Poetry. "An American original and even stronger than that, these last four decades, till these poems anchored by their extreme facts and debris-like assembling remind us of who this man Seidman has always been becoming, this maker made by his irreducible materials"--Joseph McElroy.
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Seidman, Hugh was born on August 1, 1940 in Brooklyn. Son of Monas Seidman and Susan Grossman.
Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1957. Bachelor of Science, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, 1961. Master of Science, University Minnesota, 1964.
Master of Fine Arts, Columbia University, 1969.
Member faculty New School for Social Research, 1976-1998. Visiting lecturer Board Cooperative Educational Services, 1969, 70. Visiting poet South Carolina, Connecticut and New York City public schools, 1970-1972, Yale University, New Haven, 1971, 73, Writer's Choice, New York City, 1988.
Poet-in-residence City College of New York, 1972-1975, Aspen (Colorado) Writers Conference, 1979, College William and Mary, 1982. Distinguished poet-in-residence Wichita State University, 1978. Assistant professor Washington College, 1979.
Participating poet New York State Poets-in-the Schools, 1978-1981. Visiting lecturer Columbia University, 1985. Consultant Creative Artists Public Service Grants, 1974-1976, Walt Whitman Award, 1975, 79.
Coordinator workshops in field.
(Hugh Seidman's first book of poetry, Collecting Evidence,...)
(Book by Seidman, Hugh)
(Poetry. "An American original and even stronger than that...)
Board directors Millay Colony for Arts, 1975-1979. Panelist Maryland Arts Council, 1978, Massachusetts Arts Council, 1977, coordinator Council Literature Magazines, 1975. Member American Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Author's Guild, Author's League, National Writers Union.
Married Jayne E. Holsinger, June 2, 1990.
