So What: Poems - Softcover

Seidel, Frederick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374609187 ISBN 13: 9780374609184

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025

Synopsis

A bristling, beautiful new collection from "the Dark Prince of American Poetry" (Dwight Garner, The New York Times).

In So What, Frederick Seidel writes of speeding his racetrack-only Superbike across 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, late-blooming love and sex, and flashes of the naked face of American life. At its crest stands the poet, looking over the wreckage and creation, and he proclaims: so what.

About this title

About the Author

Frederick Seidel's books of poems include Final Solutions; Sunrise, winner of the Lamont Prize and the 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award; These Days; My Tokyo; Going Fast; The Cosmos Poems; Life on Earth; Ooga-Booga; and Poems 1959-2009.

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374609187
• ISBN 13: 9780374609184
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160