About the Author

Frederick Seidel's many books of poems include The Cosmos Trilogy, Ooga-Booga, Poems 1959-2009, and Nice Weather

Reviews

"Every time I read Seidel, I'm bowled over by the brilliance of individual lines and images, and baffled by the narrow culvert through which he has forced such an enormous and unruly gift. . . Increasingly, Seidel's poems are about old age, its indignities described in detail worthy of an Italian giallo . . . Encroaching death gives some of Seidel's blasphemy a kind of ballsy élan, as he puts his mortal money where his outrageous mouth has always been. The horror in these poems seems real, not hyped." --Dan Chiasson, New Yorker "One of the greatest lyrical performers of selfhood in English-language literature" --Jonathon Sturgeon, Flavorwire