Ooga-Booga

Poems

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book Ooga-Booga by Frederick Seidel, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Author: Frederick Seidel ISBN: 9781466879782
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: September 2, 2014
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: Frederick Seidel
ISBN: 9781466879782
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: September 2, 2014
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

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 Frederick Seidel, "the most frightening American poet ever" (Calvin Bedient, Boston Review).

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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 Frederick Seidel, "the most frightening American poet ever" (Calvin Bedient, Boston Review).

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