Description
The best American poet writing today*
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 surreal without being especially difficult, and utterly unpretentious, suffused with the peculiar American loneliness of Raymond Chandler . . . The poem 'Barbados'] is the loveliest Seidel has written to date, and he's perfected the subtle rhythms and rhymes that rocket the stanzas forward like his Ducati 916 SPS. While I can think of a more likable book of poems, I can scarcely imagine a better one. --Alex Halberstadt, New York magazine Ooga-Booga is] as beguiling and magisterial as anything Seidel] has written. I can't decide whether Seidel has more in common with Philip Larkin or John Ashbery, but the fact that he can prompt such a bizarre question is more revealing than any possible answer. --Joel Brouwer, The New York Times Book ReviewAuthor: Seidel Frederick
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 10/30/2007
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9780374530976
ISBN10: 0374530971
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
About the Author
Frederick Seidel's previous books of poems include The Cosmos Trilogy; Final Solutions; Sunrise; These Days; and Poems, 1959-1979. He received the 2002 PEN/Voelker Award for Poetry.