Widening income inequality / Frederick Seidel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seidel, Frederick, 1936- author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

viii, 118 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

Summary:

"Frederick Seidel has been called many things. A "transgressive adventurer," "a demonic gentleman," "a "triumphant outsider," "a great poet of innocence," and "an example of the dangerous Male of the Species," just to name a few. Whatever you choose to call him, one thing is certain, "he radiates heat" (The New Yorker). Now add to that: the poet of aging and decrepitude. Widening Income Inequality, Seidel's new poetry collection, is a rhymed magnificence of sexual, historical and cultural exuberance, a sweet and bitter fever of Robespierre and Obamacare and Apollinaire, of John F. Kennedy and jihadi terror and New York City and Italian motorcycles. Rarely has poetry been this true, this dapper, or this dire. Frederick Seidel is "the most poetic of the poets and their leader into hell.""-- Provided by publisher.

"A new collection from the "triumphant outsider in American poetry""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Remembering Elaine's 3

City 5

Liftoff 6

February 30th 7

France Now 10

At a Party 12

Beautiful Fabu 13

Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art 14

Robespierre 15

Le Pont Mirabeau 16

Pussy Days 17

A Problem with the Landing Gear 21

Aeneidos Liber Quartus 22

The Pond 24

America 25

Patek Philippe Ref. 3842 29

Cors de chasse 30

The Little Car 31

Punta Cana 34

Boom and Boom and Boom 35

A Man About to Come 36

Winter Day, Birdsong 38

Annie 40

Autumn Leaves 41

Breaking News 43

March 2012 44

Man with a Mouth 45

Model Train 47

The Bird on the Crocodile's Back 52

The Lovely Redhead 54

Song 59

Snowing 60

Psalm 66

Song to the Moon 68

Green Absinthe 70

Don't Blink, Life! 72

Monday Morning 73

Man in Slicker 74

The End of Summer 76

The Ballad of Ferguson, Missouri 78

Claudio Castiglione and Massimo Tamburini 81

Montauk 85

Down Below Riverside Park 86

Karl 88

Fred Seidel 90

Morning and Melancholia 92

Sunshine 95

Sunset at Swan Lake 96

Spring Fever 97

Hip-Hop 98

Polio Days 100

Versailles 102

My First Wife 104

To Stop the World from Ending 106

Me 108

Poet at Seventy-Eight 110

To Philip Roth, for His Eightieth 112

What a Day 114

Widening Income Inequality 116.

ISBN:

9780374250843

0374250847

OCLC:

914326254