by Frederick Seidel (Author)
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.
Author Biography
Frederick Seidel's previous books of poems include Final Solutions; Sunrise, These Days; Poems, 1959-1979; My Tokyo (FSG, 1993); Going Fast (FSG, 1998); The Cosmos Poems (FSG, 2000); and Life on Earth (FSG, 2001).
Number of Pages: 208
Dimensions: 0.68 x 9.18 x 6.06 IN
Publication Date: November 24, 2003
