Frederick Seidel Selected Poems - (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

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."

Review Quotes

"Seidel is among the rare poets who've become noticeably better -- nervier, more tricksy and electric -- as they've slid into old age . . . He's the Dark Prince of American poetry, a writer of glittering malice, one who cuts against the grain of almost every variety of community feeling. He's not a poet for everyone, but no poet worth anything is . . . Meticulous and sublime." --Dwight Garner, The New York Times

About the Author

Frederick Seidel's many books of poems include Peaches Goes It Alone, The Cosmos Trilogy, Ooga-Booga, Poems 1959-2009, Nice Weather, and Widening Income Inequality, all published by FSG.