Hart Seely's latest book is "Mrs. Goose Goes to Washington: Nursery Rhymes for the Political Barnyard," (Simon & Schuster, 2007). He is the co-editor of "O Holy Cow: The Selected Verse of Phil Rizzuto" (Ecco Press, 1993), "2007-Eleven and Other American Comedies" (Random House, 2000), and editor of "Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld" (Simon & Schuster 2003). His works have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post and on National Public Radio. He is a reporter for the Syracuse Post-Standard newspaper and has been to Iraq twice, in 2005 and 2006, embedded with the U.S. Army. He posts daily ruminations about the New York Yankees at IT IS HIGH, IT IS FAR, IT IS caught and lives in Syracuse, NY.
Posted December 15, 2008 | 09:34 AM (EST)