Ooga-booga / Frederick Seidel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seidel, Frederick, 1936-

Language:

English

Physical Description:

viii, 101 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

Summary:

From the winner of the PEN/Voelker Award, poems of love, terror, rage, and desire. "Here I am, not a practical man, But clear-eyed in my contact lenses, Following no doubt a slightly different line than the others, Seeking sexual pleasure above all else, Despairing of art and of life, Seeking protection from death by seeking it On a racebike, finding release and belief on two wheels . . . "- from " The Death of the Shah" The poems in "Ooga-Booga "are about a youthful slave owner and his aging slave, and both are the same man. This is the tenderest, most savage collection yet from " the most frightening American poet ever" (Calvin Bedient, "Boston Review").

ISBN:

0374226555

OCLC:

63245396

Publisher Number:

9780374226558

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