(P/B) OOGA-BOOGA

Παρουσίαση

"Seidel grips the twentieth century between his teeth like a blade as he speaks. He is one of the more formidable poets of the last third of the century." (Calvin Bedient, Poetry)
"He is scary, but funny, but 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 moral thrills of his poetry can be as daunting as the moral spills, the cruel intelligence of glamour as alluring as the mystical stillness that is somewhere also at the heart of his poetry." (Adam Phillips, Raritan)
"The poems in Ooga-Booga are the richest yet and read like no one else's: they're surreal, utterly unpretentious, and suffused with the peculiar American loneliness of Raymond Chandler. 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 he has more in common with Philip Larkin or John Ashbery, but the fact that Seidel can prompt such a bizarre question is more revealing than any possible answer." (The New York Times Book Review)

Περιεχόμενα

KILL POEM
FROM NIJINSKY'S DIARY
VIOLIN
NECTAR
ON BEING DEBONAIR
HOMAGE TO PESSOA
FOR HOLLY ANDERSEN
FOG
A RED FLOWER
DICK AND FRED
NEW YEAR'S DAY, 2004
THE ITALIAN GIRL
THE BIG GOLCONDA DIAMOND
WHAT ARE MOVIES FOR?
THE OWL YOU HEARD
E-MAIL FROM AN OWL
WHITE BUTTERFLIES
THE CASTLE IN THE MOUNTAINS
A FRESH STICK OF CHEWING GUM
DANTE'S BEATRICE
BOLOGNA
RACER
AT A FACTORY IN ITALY
FRANCE FOR BOYS
GRANDSON BORN DEAD
DEATH
EAST HAMPTON AIRPORT
A WHITE TIGER
CLOCLO
LAUDATIO
TO DIE FOR
BARBADOS
CLIMBING EVEREST
ORGANIZED RELIGION
MOTHER NATURE
BROADWAY MELODY
LOVE SONG
BREAST CANCER
RILKE
CASANOVA GETTING OLDER
IL DUCE
I AM SIAM
THE BIG JET
THE BLACK-EYED VIRGINS
EUROSTAR
SONG: "THE SWOLLEN RIVER OVERTHROWS ITS BANKS"
DRINKING IN THE DAYTIME
THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION
THE DEATH OF THE SHAH