works are: "Whether child or adult is spoken of, this book sees a person's concerns with dignity and compassion." (February 1982) Books of Poetry From Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems and Hail, American Development Essays Some of his many essays and broadsides include: "Is Beauty the Making One of Opposites?"', The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. XIV, No. 2, December 1955 (see Terrain Gallery). "Husbands and Poems", Today's Japan, 1960. "Alcoholism; or, You Got to Find the World Interesting", Definition, 1962. "The Ordinary Doom", A Book of Nonfiction, (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1965), pp. 250–255. "Assonance Is Like This", New York Quarterly, no. 2 (1970), pp. 82–90. Comments on Siegel's work William Carlos Williams wrote of the poem Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana, "I say definitely that that single poem, out of a thousand others written in the past quarter century, secures our place in the cultural world." Williams was an early supporter of Siegel's poetry and defender of his views. He wrote: I can't tell you how important Siegel's work is in the light of my present understanding of the modern poem. He belongs in the very first rank of our living artists. And Williams added: The other side of the picture is the extreme resentment that a fixed, sclerotic mind feels confronting this new. It shows itself by the violent opposition Siegel received from the "authorities" whom I shall not dignify by naming and after that by neglect. ... John Henry Faulk, speaking of the poems in Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana, said on CBS radio, "Eli Siegel makes a man glad he's alive." Kenneth Rexroth wrote in the New York Times Book Review of Hail, American Development that Siegel's poems contained "...incomparable sensibility at work saying things nobody else could say and in the long ones the rhythms are as new inventions as once were Blake's or Whitman's or Apollinaire's", adding, "...all through Hail, American Development are Translations, mostly from the French, that show a penetration both original and extraordinary. His Translations of Baudelaire and his commentaries on them rank him with the most understanding of the Baudelaire critics in any language." (March 23, 1969) In Contemporary Authors Ellen Reiss, Aesthetic Realism Chairman of Education, stated (in a book published by Definition Press, said Foundation's publishing arm): Eli Siegel's work, which in time became Aesthetic Realism, was the cause of