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“The most frightening American poet ever--phallus-man, hangman of political barbarism--Seidel is the poet the twentieth century deserved.†―Calvin Bedient, Boston Review“He radiates heat. It is apparent that he has asked himself frightful questions and has not dodged the implications of their equally frightful answers . . . A master of metaphor.†―Louise Bogan, The New Yorker“Beguiling and magisterial.†―Joel Brouwer, The New York Times Book Review“Profoundly beautiful . . . The writer willing to say the unsayable.†―Philip Connors, n+1“The best verse out of the United States since whenever.†―Joe Fiorito, The Toronto Star“Among the two or three finest poets writing in English.†―Alex Halberstadt, New York“[Final Solutions] seems to me one of the most moving and powerful books of poetry to have come along in years.†―Anthony Hecht, The New York Review of Books“Area Code 212 [is] our new Waste Land, as monitory and radical . . . as Eliot's poem was in 1922.†―George Held, The Philadelphia Inquirer“A triumphant outsider in American poetry . . . He takes risks utterly unthinkable, even as merely mutinous provocation, in an academic workshop.†―Ernest Hilbert, Contemporary Poetry Review“[Life on Earth] is an exemplary book . . . One of the best by an American poet in the past twenty years.†―Michael Hofmann, The Times Literary Supplement“One of the world's most inspired and unusual poets . . . His poems are a triumph of cosmic awe in the face of earthly terror.†―Hillel Italie, USA Today“In American poetry today there is no one with Frederick Seidel's sheer ambition, comprehensive sense of our times, sophistication, nerve and skill . . . One of the most vital and important poets we have.†―Lawrence Joseph, The Nation“The excellent table manners combined with a savage display of appetite: this is what everyone notices in Seidel. Yet he wouldn't be so special or powerful a poet of what's cruel, corrupt, and horrifying had he not also lately shown himself to be a great poet of innocence.†―Benjamin Kunkel, Harper's Magazine“In the desert of contemporary American poetry, Frederick Seidel's work awaits the weary reader like an oasis.†―James Lasdun, The Guardian“Here is the new kind of visionary, the person who really wants to change the world fast, the person who believes in something.†―Adam Phillips, Raritan“Frederick Seidel is a ghoul, and he has produced this nascent century's finest collection of English poems.†―Michael Robbins, Chicago Review“Frederick Seidel, for fifty years and across ten collections, has been writing our most serious, beautiful, and essential poems, poems that are shocking in their art and astonishing in their truth, and that remind us, in their forms, why poetry was once a vital part of cultural life†―Wyatt Mason, Harper's "Weekend Read"
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About the Author
Frederick Seidel's previous collection, Ooga-Booga, received the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Griffin Poetry Prize.
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Product details
Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First edition (October 26, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780374532192
ISBN-13: 978-0374532192
ASIN: 0374532192
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6.1 x 1.4 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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That's the title this book ought to have (as in "Being John Malkovich"), because Seidel's poems grab you so quickly it's like being sucked into someone else's consciousness at warp-speed. Once you've accustomed yourself to your new surroundings -- vast wealth, swank hotels, gorgeous women, bespoke suits, transatlantic flights in first class -- you will almost certainly be fascinated. Like another great American poet of the last half-century, James Merrill, Seidel inherited vast wealth and has repaid it by writing a great many poems that are unlike anyone else's.It could be argued that almost his entire literary output is a sly send-up of the tired "creative writing" mantra, "Write What You Know." And what Seidel knows, despite his leftist politics, is the world of the "1 %." What's more he's only to happy to show it to you, whether he's having dinner at the Carlyle, spending time with the CEO of Ducati (he's a motorcycle fanatic), or seducing a girl decades younger.Whether or not Seidel is a "great" poet, I don't know, even in subjective terms, not having read him for long enough to fully gauge my own reactions. But he's a welcome change from the usual workshop-fodder filed under "contemporary poetry." Bold, technically daring, highly intelligent and often deliberately outrageous, Seidel is capable of deep feeling, tenderness, and refinement as well as shock value. Whatever you think of him, he's not a poet who goes in one ear and out the other. Just don't expect him to be "nice" all the time.
can't believe he's not more well known. best book i've read in a long time, let alone in poetry genre. not all the works are great but there are a lot of titles to choose from. stark turns of phrase and trains of thought that will punch you in the gut, the heart, or the groin.
Frederick Seidel has firmly established himself over the last decade as the enfant terrible of the international poetry community, and in so doing, has undoubtedly experienced the greatest late-career flowering of talent since Wallace Stevens. Yet he has none of the characteristic reserve and formalism of that lone peer (with all due respect to Stevens). Ezra Pound at his most irascible, Ogden Nash in his few moments of relevance, the cool scrutiny of the confessional poets--these are Seidel's touchstones. He is more apt to write a dirty limerick than an epic, more familiar with luxury and splendor than the cliché poetic squalor. In fact, with his immense wealth and jetsetting acquaintances, he seems to be working in the opposite direction of modern poetry. Which is exactly where his skill shines through. It is no exaggeration to call Seidel the best poet currently writing in English. No American poet has come close to his level of range and accomplishment since Robert Lowell's death in 1977. He has only been acknowledged in recent years, however, because of the oddity he represents among writers. Besides James Merrill (whose father, as a founder of Merrill-Lynch, left him an unbreakable trust fund), Seidel is the only poet of the modern era to have the aid of a private fortune to support him. This has allowed him not only ease of publication (with Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, no less) but the liberty of writing with absolute honesty. His sarcasm and viciousness have led some to call him the Hannibal Lecter of the literary world, a comparison as short-sighted as it is predictable. "I want to date-rape life," he begins one poem, not only satirizing a culture that produces date-rape but the Whitmanesque joy for life. In another, he compares his glass of Haut-Brion to a crystal pistol, the barrel of which he's sucking "to get a bullet to [his] brain." Yet these are only excerpts (and oft-quoted ones at that). Seidel's work is full of memorable and grotesque images, all anchored by an ear formally trained in the modernist tradition. His collections of the decade from 1998 to 2008 are unlike anything else in all poetry, most resembling J.G. Ballard's dystopian fictions of ultra-modernity and decay. Frederick Seidel, as one reviewer has noted, is the poet the twentieth century deserved, and, one might add, the one the twenty-first needs. All excess, all right-wing insanity, are self-parodying for the conscientious man who has them at his fingertips. His is a fight against complacency, our slobbering at the breast of consumerism. "Anything," Seidel writes, "is better than this/Bliss."
It is always a treat to see what happens to a poet's work over a long time and this book does that well. Frederick Seidel is not for every reader. Some poems are too dense for most readers, including me. But his use of words take leaps into the unknown that are pleasing and challenging. This is a worthwhile addition to any poetry collection.
If you're a Lad and always thought that poetry was too highbrow and for snooty literary types, then you're wrong. Seidel has bridged the gap between Lads and the snooty literary types. If you like luxury and beautiful young women then this book of poetry is for you. Katie
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