“And so I roll it around and around in my head like a Lemon Ball that won’t dissolve. There is something about how close the poem comes to sentiment, how frank it is about his death, that is upsetting. It is what I love about Seidel’s work: it upsets me. I bring it out in my mind to make myself feel. “Spin” upsets whomever I recite it to. The last time, in class, there was a long pause before a student said, “Why did you do that to us?”
A question to be asked of any great work of art.”
—Andrew Sean Greer, “Frederick Seidel’s Spin,” Paris Review
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