2007, ISBN: 0374530971

[EAN: 9780374530976], Neubuch, [PU: Strauss & Giroux-3PL Farrar], nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'The best American poet writing today'\\* 'The title itse… Plus…

[EAN: 9780374530976], Neubuch, [PU: Strauss & Giroux-3PL Farrar], nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - '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 Review 112 pp. Englis, Books<

ISBN: 9780374530976

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. Seid… Plus…

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 SunThe 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 Review Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Poetry>Poetry>Poetry, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Core >1<

2007, ISBN: 0374530971

[EAN: 9780374530976], Neubuch, [PU: Strauss & Giroux-3PL Farrar], nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 'The best American poet writing today'\\* 'The title itse… Plus…

[EAN: 9780374530976], Neubuch, [PU: Strauss & Giroux-3PL Farrar], nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - '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 Revi, Books<