So What Poems
So What Poems by Frederick Seidel is a new collection published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on June 25, 2024. This 160-page book presents a vivid exploration of the contrasts between youth and age, as Seidel reflects on his experiences and observations throughout his life. The poet’s journey is marked by dynamic imagery and a candid examination of American life, capturing moments of both beauty and chaos.
In So What, readers will find Seidel’s unique voice as he navigates themes of love, mortality, and the passage of time. The collection features a range of poetic expressions, from the exhilarating rush of riding a Superbike across Manhattan to contemplations on the complexities of existence. Through this work, Seidel continues to challenge conventional boundaries, offering insights that resonate with the intricacies of life in America.
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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.
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