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So what : [poems] / Frederick Seidel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seidel, Frederick, 1936- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Aging--Poetry.
- Aging.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 139 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
- Summary:
- In So What, Frederick Seidel writes of speeding his racetrack-only Superbike around the island of Manhattan, "illegal river to river, wap wap wap WOW!" The poet hurtles toward the tenth decade of his life and into the sixth decade of his lightning rod career, but the path from youth to old age is not a straight one. Throughout this book, Seidel smashes the boundaries of youth and age against each other and stirs up a surge of shotguns and wristwatches and Baudelaire, late-blooming love and sex, and flashes of the naked face of American life. At its crest stands the poet, looking over wreckage and creation, and he proclaims: so what." - dust jacket
- Contents:
- So What
- How to Write a Poem
- At Christmas
- The Problem with Having a Dog
- Long Story Short
- Ella Singing a Song
- My Me
- Sag Harbor
- Come Back, Meta Burden, Don't Be Dead
- Whitney Ellsworth
- Claudio Castiglione
- Steve Aaron
- Jar
- Rimbaud and Verlaine
- To Baudelaire
- St. Louis Blues
- 1937
- Stalin
- A Giraffe Eating a Swan
- Pandemic Spring
- Moxifloxacin
- Cape Coast Slave Castle, Ghana
- Song
- Parkinson's March
- Roya
- Summertime
- Bubbles
- A Little Drinking Song by Du Fu
- Nick Cave
- You've Come a Long Way from St. Louis
- August on Shelter Island
- What Thou Lovest Well Remains
- Sonnet
- One Afternoon
- Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson
- Frank Conroy
- A Matched Pair of Purdeys
- Gentlemen's Final
- A Fresh Start
- Malkovich Recites Seneca's Thyestes
- In Memory of Clare Peploe
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- One Missouri Senator
- The Ballad of Ban the Bomb
- Midnight Sky with Stars
- The Autobiography of Sunshine
- In Vienna
- The Cantilevered Building
- The Arizona Inn
- Lucky Ducky
- The Big Beak
- Huck Finn
- The Songbird on the Crocodile's Back
- Travel
- Victory
- At Eighty-Seven
- A Misty, Rainy Day
- When The Paris Review was in Paris
- Rome
- Street Fair for Bob Kerrey on his Eightieth
- Youth
- Tump
- Moto Poeta
- ISBN:
- 9780374614188
- 0374614180
- OCLC:
- 1393204951
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