Poems deal with the past, mortality, war, Europe, spring, America, travel, identity, meaning, and language

A stunning new collection from the "beguiling and magisterial" poet ( The New York Times Book Review ) "Something is going on. Something is wrong." Frederick Seidel—the "ghoul" ( Chicago Review ), the "triumphant outsider" ( Contemporary Poetry Review )—returns with a dangerous new collection of poems. Nice Weather presents the sexual and political themes that have long preoccupied Seidel—and thrilled and offended his readers. Lyrical, grotesque, elegiac, this book adds new music and menace to his masterful body of work.

"You Can't Like Seidel's Poems--They're Deliberately Virulent; You Can Only Gasp At Their Skill And Daring, Their Sickening Warp, Their Mercilessness."* Frederick Seidel's highly acclaimed Cosmos Trilogy is a triple thunderclap of darkness from the poet whom Richard Poirier has recently called "the true heir of Walt Whitman" and of whose first book Robert Lowell wrote "[I] suspect the possibilities of modern poetry have been changed. Here is power that strikes." Reversing the course of Dante's Divine Comedy , Seidel's trilogy begins in the heavens, with The Cosmos Poems , and descends, passing through the Purgatorio of Life on Earth to arrive in Manhattan in Area Code 212 .

Ooga-Booga is Seidel's 10th collection of poetry.

Cutting and brilliant new poetry from master controversionalist Frederick Seidel.

Book by Seidel, Frederick

Area Code 212 is the journey's end in ice and flames of Seidel's brilliant Cosmos Poems trilogy. Reversing the order and outlook of Dante's Divine Comedy , Seidel's three-book series begins in the heavens (with The Cosmos Poems ) and then descends steeply--through the Purgatory of Life on Earth , the second volume--to at last arrive at home, in Manhattan, with its famous area code.

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