Poems 1959-2009

Author: Frederick Seidel
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466817895
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 528

Book Description
These are the collected poems of a master whose work includes many of the most compelling, savage, and tender poems in the language. Frederick Seidel is, in the words of the critic Adam Kirsch, "the best American poet writing today."

Poems 1959-2009

Author: Frederick Seidel
Publisher: Pearson Deutschland GmbH
ISBN: 9780374126551
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 540

Book Description
Presents a complete collection of the poems written to date by the National Book Critics Circle Award and Griffin Poetry Prize finalist, in a volume that encompasses his nine anthologies as well as new and previously uncollected works.

Nice Weather

Author: Frederick Seidel
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374221944
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
Presents a collection of poems by American poet Frederick Seidel.

Ooga-Booga

Author: Frederick Seidel
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466879785
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116

Book Description
From the winner of the PEN/Voelker Award, poems of love, terror, rage, and desire. Here I am, not a practical man, But clear-eyed in my contact lenses, Following no doubt a slightly different line than the others, Seeking sexual pleasure above all else, Despairing of art and of life, Seeking protection from death by seeking it On a racebike, finding release and belief on two wheels . . . --from "The Death of the Shah" The poems in Ooga-Booga are about a youthful slave owner and his aging slave, and both are the same man. This is the tenderest, most savage collection yet from Frederick Seidel, "the most frightening American poet ever" (Calvin Bedient, Boston Review).

Frederick Seidel Selected Poems

Author: Frederick Seidel
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374721971
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 249

Book Description
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."

Widening Income Inequality

Author: Frederick Seidel
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374715076
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
“One of the world’s most inspired and unusual poets . . . [Seidel’s] poems are a triumph of cosmic awe in the face of earthly terror.” —Hillel Italie, USA Today Frederick Seidel has been called many things. A “transgressive adventurer,” “a demonic gentleman,” a “triumphant outsider,” “a great poet of innocence,” and “an example of the dangerous Male of the Species,” just to name a few. Whatever you choose to call him, one thing is certain: “he radiates heat” (The New Yorker). Now add to that: the poet of aging and decrepitude. Widening Income Inequality, Seidel’s new poetry collection, is a rhymed magnificence of sexual, historical, and cultural exuberance, a sweet and bitter fever of Robespierre and Obamacare and Apollinaire, of John F. Kennedy and jihadi terror and New York City and Italian motorcycles. Rarely has poetry been this true, this dapper, or this dire. Seidel is “the most poetic of the poets and their leader into hell.”

Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems

Author: Gary Snyder
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1582436967
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 45

Book Description
By any measure, Gary Snyder is one of the greatest poets in America in the last century. From his first book of poems to his latest collection of essays, his work and his example, standing between Tu Fu and Thoreau, have been influential all over the world. Riprap, his first book of poems, was published in Japan in 1959 by Origin Press, and it is the fiftieth anniversary of that groundbreaking book we celebrate with this edition. A small press reprint of that book included Snyder's translations of Han Shan's Cold Mountain Poems, perhaps the finest translations of that remarkable poet ever made into English. Reintroducing one of the twentieth century's foremost collections of poetry, this edition will please those already familiar with this work and excite a new generation of readers with its profound simplicity and spare elegance.

What Love Comes to

Author: Ruth Stone
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
ISBN: 1556593279
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
A finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. “Ruth Stone is . . . a pre-eminent American poet.” —Harvard Review

How Does a Poem Mean?

Author: John Ciardi
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 440

Book Description
Explains the basic elements of poetry and groups poems to encourage an analysis of similarities and differences.

Sweetbitter Love

Author: Sappho
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 376

Book Description
In this translation of the Greek poetess's work, Barnstone remains faithful to the words of the fragments, only very judiciously filling in a word or phrase in cases where the meaning is obvious.