Frederick Seidel Selected Poems

Frederick Seidel Selected Poems

by Frederick Seidel
Frederick Seidel Selected Poems

Frederick Seidel Selected Poems

by Frederick Seidel

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Overview

An overview of Frederick Seidel's best and most famous poetry from the past five decades, showing the evolution of a master poet’s craft

Frederick 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's most powerful work.

Frederick Seidel is, in the words of the critic Adam Kirsch, "the best American poet writing today."


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780374260811
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: 12/01/2020
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 8.20(w) x 5.60(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Frederick Seidel’s many books of poems include Peaches Goes It Alone, The Cosmos Trilogy, Ooga-Booga, Poems 1959–2009, Nice Weather, and Widening Income Inequality, all published by FSG.

Table of Contents

From Sunrise (1980)

1968 3

The Soul Mate 6

Sunrise 8

To Robert Lowell and Osip Mandelstam 22

Men and Woman 24

Fucking 29

What One Must Contend With 32

Robert Kennedy 35

From These Days (1989)

Scotland 39

Flame 42

Our Gods 43

That Fall 44

A Dimpled Cloud 45

The Blue-Eyed Doe 48

From My Tokyo (1993)

Hair in a Net 55

The Ritz, Paris 57

Glory 58

Sonnet 59

Burkina Faso 60

Pol Pot 61

Stroke 63

My Tokyo 65

From Going Fast (1998)

Midnight 69

Prayer 70

The Night Sky 71

The Stars Above the Empty Quarter 72

Contents Under Pressure 73

At Gracie Mansion 74

Mood Indigo 76

Spring 77

Dune Road, Southampton 78

In Memoriam 80

Anyone with the Wish 81

A Gallop to Farewell 82

A Vampire in the Age of AIDS 84

Another Muse 85

Spin 87

Eisenhower Years 88

Vermont 90

Racine 91

Milan 93

A Pretty Girl 95

Going Fast 99

From The Cosmos Poems (2000)

Into the Emptiness 109

Invisible Dark Matter 111

From Life on Earth (2001)

Frederick Seidel 115

From Ooga-Booga (2006)

Kill Poem 119

Violin 123

Homage to Pessoa 124

Fog 125

A Red Flower 127

The Owl You Heard 128

E-mail from an Owl 129

Dante's Beatrice 130

Bologna 132

Cloclo 136

Barbados 138

Climbing Everest 142

Broadway Melody 144

The Black-Eyed Virgins 145

Eurostar 146

Drinking in the Daytime 147

The Death of the Shah 149

From Evening Man (2008)

Boys 157

"Sii romantico, Seidel, tanto per cambiare" 160

Bipolar November 161

Italy 163

Mu'allaqa 165

Evening Man 169

Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin 170

From Nice Weather (2012)

Night 177

Store Windows 178

Downtown 180

Before Air-Conditioning 181

Midterm Election Results, 2010 182

Snow 184

Charlie 185

Arnold Toynbee, Mac Bundy, Hercules Bellville 187

Nice Weather 189

London 190

Mount Street Gardens 191

One Last Kick for Dick 193

From Widening Income Inequality (2016)

Remembering Elaine's 197

City 199

France Now 200

Robespierre 202

A Problem with the Landing Gear 203

Autumn Leaves 204

The Bird on the Crocodile's Back 206

The Lovely Redhead 208

Man in Slicker 213

The End of Summer 215

Karl 217

Sunset at Swan Lake 219

Polio Days 220

Me 221

Widening Income Inequality 223

From Peaches Goes It Alone (2018)

Athena 229

Too Much 232

The Ezra Pound Look-Alike 234

Miss Charlotte 236

And now good-morrow to our waking souls 238

In Late December 239

England Now 241

Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead 243

Ducati Years, Ducati Days 245

Epithalamion for Stein and Stein 246

To Mac Griswold 247

Near the New Whitney 249

Autumn 251

Quand vous serez bien vieille 253

Barbara Epstein 254

Verdant Valley 256

One of the Bridesmaids 258

Hymn to Aphrodite 259

The Blue Suit 262

Surf's Up 264

Index of Titles and First Lines 269

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