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A bristling, beautiful new collection from "the Dark Prince of American Poetry" (Dwight Garner, The New York Times). In So What, Frederick Seidel writes of speeding his racetrack-only Superbike across the island of Manhattan, "illegal river to river, wap wap wap WOW!" The poet hurtles toward the tenth decade of his life and into the sixth decade of his lightning-rod career, but the path from youth to old age is not a straight one. Throughout t...

An overview of Frederick Seidel's best and most famous poetry from the past five decades, showing the evolution of a master poet's craftFrederick Seidel has been hailed as "the poet of a new contemporary form" (Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books) and "the most frightening American poet ever" (Calvin Bedient, Boston Review). The poems in Frederick Seidel Selected Poems span more than five decades and provide readers with some of Seidel'...

This collection provides readers with a perpetually exciting, compact edition of the revolutionary poets most powerful work. Frederick Seidel has been hailed as the poet of a new contemporary form New York Review of Books, and the most frightening American poet ever Boston Review. His ambitious, disturbing and tender work has mystified and captured critics, poets and readers for decades. Select Seidel allows readers to appreciate the scope of ...

An overview of Frederick Seidel's best and most famous poetry from the past five decades, showing the evolution of a master poet's craftFrederick Seidel has been hailed as "the poet of a new contemporary form" (Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books) and "the most frightening American poet ever" (Calvin Bedient, Boston Review). The poems in Frederick Seidel Selected Poems span more than five decades and provide readers with some of Seidel'...

A stunning new collection from a "beguiling and magisterial" poet (The New York Times Book Review)This is the End of Days.This is what we've been waiting for always.I walked over to the Hudson River, heading for Mars.Each poem of mine is a suicide belt.I say that to my girlfriend Life.Peaches Goes It Alone, Frederick Seidel's newest collection of poems, begins with global warming and ends with Aphrodite. In between is everything. Peaches Goes ...

My Tokyo, Frederick Seidel's fourth collection, brings together twenty-seven new poems by one of our most arresting writers. In Seidel's work, a passionate, uncompromising sensibility confronts the intractable reality of a turbulent world, a world of seductive glamour, harsh splendor, and cruelty. The strong rhetoric of the poems juxtaposes intense lyricism with a remorseless, cold-eyed skepticism. The results are consistently challenging, dis...

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, eleg...

A stunning new collection from a "beguiling and magisterial" poet (The New York Times Book Review)This is the End of Days.This is what we've been waiting for always.I walked over to the Hudson River, heading for Mars.Each poem of mine is a suicide belt.I say that to my girlfriend Life.Peaches Goes It Alone, Frederick Seidel's newest collection of poems, begins with global warming and ends with Aphrodite. In between is everything. Peaches Goes ...

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, eleg...

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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 TodayFrederick 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: ...

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 TodayFrederick 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: ...

These are the collected poems of a master whose work includes many of the most compelling, savage, and tender poems in the language. Frederick Seidel is, in the words of the critic Adam Kirsch, "the best American poet writing today.

Area Code 212" is the journey's end in ice and flames of Seidel's brilliant "Cosmos Poems" trilogy. Reversing the order and outlook of Dante's "Divine Comedy, " Seidel's three-book series begins in the heavens (with "The Cosmos Poems") and then descends steeply--through the Purgatory of "Life on Earth, " the second volume--to at last arrive at home, in Manhattan, with its famous area code.

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...

The second book of an extravagant work-in-progress "What's Joel" "Got to do but let the jewel" "Hatch" "The light and hook" "It to the flesh" "It will outlast" "And point the staring woman" "At a mirror?" --from "The Master Jeweler Joel Rosenthal" Dante's "Divine Comedy" begins with a journey through Hell and ends in Heaven. Frederick Seidel's trilogy "The Cosmos Poems" begins in the heavens and descends. "Life on Earth "is the ...