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Akron Series in Poetry

Other books by Barry Seiler:
- Frozen Falls
- The Waters of Forgetting

"From the genuine horror of Sam Peckinpah to the tragic lyricism of Sam Cooke, Barry Seiler's Black Leaf explores Americana with a poetic that announces to the reader that the mantra of what we know ourselves to be is all there is. Seiler takes Auden's origin of poetry in language and makes the subject happen. Black Leaf is exquisite poetry of subtle and ironic commitment, steeped in a love and respect for language."
-Afaa M. Weaver

Barry Seiler, a native of the Bronx, resides in New Jersey and upstate New York. With a B.A. in English from Queens College and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of California at Irvine, Seiler teaches at Rutgers University. His poetry has been awarded the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize and a Distinguished Artist grant from the New Jersey Council on the Arts. He has published three chapbooks and two full-length collections, most recently The Waters of Forgetting, the first volume in the Akron Series in Poetry.