Ooga-Booga Poems

Name: Ooga-Booga Poems
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ISBN: 9780374530976

ISBN-10: 0374530971

ISBN-13: 9780374530976

Edition: 2008

Authors: Frederick Seidel

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"The best American poet writing today"*nbsp; nbsp; “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 inOoga-Boogaare [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 . . .…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 10/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.27" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

Frederick Seidel's previous books of poems include "Final Solutions"; "Sunrise", winner of the Lamont Prize & the 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award; "These Days"; "Poems, 1959-1979"; "My Tokyo" (FSG, 1993); "Going Fast" (FSG, 1998); & "The Cosmos Poems" (FSG, 2000).