"You Can't Like Seidel's Poems--They're Deliberately Virulent; You Can Only Gasp At Their Skill And Daring, Their Sickening Warp, Their Mercilessness."*
Frederick Seidel's highly acclaimed Cosmos Trilogy is a triple thunderclap of darkness from the poet whom Richard Poirier has recently called "the true heir of Walt Whitman" and of whose first book Robert Lowell wrote " I] suspect the possibilities of modern poetry have been changed. Here is power that strikes." Reversing the course of Dante's Divine Comedy, Seidel's trilogy begins in the heavens, with The...
"You Can't Like Seidel's Poems--They're Deliberately Virulent; You Can Only Gasp At Their Skill And Daring, Their Sickening Warp, Their Merciles...
"The title itself--a parody of a threat, something the monster under the bed might grunt--manages to capture the weird dialectic of Mr. Seidel's black comedy: He is scary, but funny, but still scary . . . You would have go back to confessional masters like Lowell and Berryman to find poetry as daringly self-revealing, as risky and compelling, as the best of Frederick Seidel's." --*Adam Kirsch, The New York Sun
"The poems in Ooga-Booga are Seidel's] richest yet and read like no one else's: They're...
"The best American poet writing today"*
"The title itself--a parody of a threat, something the monster under the bed might grunt--man...
A stunning new collection from the "beguiling and magisterial" poet (The New York Times Book Review)
"Something is going on. Something is wrong."
Frederick Seidel--the "ghoul" (Chicago Review), the "triumphant outsider" (Contemporary Poetry Review)--returns with a dangerous new collection of poems. Nice Weather presents the sexual and political themes that have long preoccupied Seidel--and thrilled and offended his readers. Lyrical, grotesque, elegiac, this book adds new music and menace to his masterful body of work.
A stunning new collection from the "beguiling and magisterial" poet (The New York Times Book Review)
"One of the world's most inspired and unusual poets . . . Seidel's] poems are a triumph of cosmic awe in the face of earthly terror." --Hillel Italie, USA Today
Frederick Seidel has been called many things. A "transgressive adventurer," "a demonic gentleman," a "triumphant outsider," "a great poet of innocence," and "an example of the dangerous Male of the Species," just to name a few. Whatever you choose to call him, one thing is certain: "he radiates heat" (The New Yorker).
Now add to that: the poet of aging and decrepitude.
Widening Income...
"One of the world's most inspired and unusual poets . . . Seidel's] poems are a triumph of cosmic awe in the face of earthly terror." --Hillel ...
