"Status of the Mourned, Hugh Seidman's seventh book, is, like each of his books, a masterpiece. Seidman's gift of making poems into objects of visionary intensity, fiery intellect, and almost tangible word-sounds, is unparalleled in our poetry. Confronting, at the boundaries of history, the horrors inflicted on the body politic, and presenting, with astonishing fervor and intimate exactness, poems powerful enough in dream power to raise the dead to a life that is forever living, Status of the Mourned is truly radical, deeply set in our oldest karma-that of hope and of love."
-Lawrence Joseph
