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Ooga-Booga - by Seidel Frederick (Paperback)

Ooga-Booga - by  Seidel Frederick (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>The best American poet writing today* </b> <p/>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, <i>The New York Sun <p/></i>The poems in <i>Ooga-Booga </i>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, <i>New York </i>magazine <p/>[<i>Ooga-Booga </i>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, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"The poems in <i>OOGA-BOOGA</i> 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 ... 'Barbados' is the loveliest [poem] Seidel has written to date, and he's perfected the subtle rhythms and rhymes that rocket the stanzas forward like his Ducati 916SPS. While I can think of a more likable book of poems, I can scarcely imagine a better one." --Alex Halberstadt, <i>NEW YORK MAGAZINE</i> <p/>"Having delivered his fin-de-siecle masterpiece, THE COSMOS TRILOGY, in 2003, Seidel could be forgiven for taking it easy this time out, but he needn't be cut any slack: These poems are as beguiling and magisterial as anything the septuagenarian jet-setter 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 ... I hope Seidel wears a helmet while riding his beloved Ducati; it would be intolerable to see this great strange brain spilled." --Joel Brouwer, <i>NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW</i> <p/>"I spent that evening with three of Seidel's collections. Some of it was profoundly beautiful . . . This sort of poem was atypical, however. Generally, reading Seidel was like riding shotgun on a Ducati racer . . . Quick propulsive speed and sudden screeching stops, hairpin turns into spooky alleys. His voice and verse were razor-edged . . . The writing willing to say the unsayable." --Philip Connors, <i>N+1</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Frederick Seidel</b>'s previous books of poems include <i>The Cosmos Trilogy</i>; <i>Final Solutions</i>; <i>Sunrise; These Days</i>; and <i>Poems, 1959-1979. </i>He received the 2002 PEN/Voelker Award for Poetry.</p>

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