Background
Seidel, Frederick Lewis was born on February 19, 1936 in St. Louis. Son of Jerome Jay and Thelma (Cartun) Seidel.
( Area Code 212 is the journey's end in ice and flames of...)
Area Code 212 is the journey's end in ice and flames of Seidel's brilliant Cosmos Poems trilogy. Reversing the order and outlook of Dante's Divine Comedy, Seidel's three-book series begins in the heavens (with The Cosmos Poems) and then descends steeply--through the Purgatory of Life on Earth, the second volume--to at last arrive at home, in Manhattan, with its famous area code.
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(Poems from the author of Going Fast. A can of shaving c...)
Poems from the author of Going Fast. A can of shaving cream inflates A ping-pong ball of lather, Thick, hot, smaller than an atom, soon The size of the world. This does take time to happen. Back at the start Again, a pinprick swells so violently It shoots out Hallways to other worlds, But keeps expanding Till it is all There is. The universe is all there is. --from "Mirror Full of Stars" The Cosmos Poems is about the universe: who it is, how it is, how it came to be, what is going to happen; when, why, who you are; what there was before it was; the smallness and the vastness, as told by a child to a child, in which quantum mechanics makes friends with special relativity forever. Frederick Seidel's poems tell the story.
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( "The best American poet writing today"* "The title its...)
"The best American poet writing today"* "The title itself--a parody of a threat, something the monster under the bed might grunt--manages to capture the weird dialectic of Mr. Seidel's black comedy: He is scary, but funny, but still scary . . . You would have go back to confessional masters like Lowell and Berryman to find poetry as daringly self-revealing, as risky and compelling, as the best of Frederick Seidel's." --*Adam Kirsch, The New York Sun "The poems in Ooga-Booga are Seidel's richest yet and read like no one else's: They're surreal without being especially difficult, and utterly unpretentious, suffused with the peculiar American loneliness of Raymond Chandler . . . The poem 'Barbados' is the loveliest Seidel has written to date, and he's perfected the subtle rhythms and rhymes that rocket the stanzas forward like his Ducati 916 SPS. While I can think of a more likable book of poems, I can scarcely imagine a better one." --Alex Halberstadt, New York magazine "Ooga-Booga is as beguiling and magisterial as anything Seidel has written. I can't decide whether Seidel has more in common with Philip Larkin or John Ashbery, but the fact that he can prompt such a bizarre question is more revealing than any possible answer." --Joel Brouwer, The New York Times Book Review
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Seidel, Frederick Lewis was born on February 19, 1936 in St. Louis. Son of Jerome Jay and Thelma (Cartun) Seidel.
AB, Harvard University, 1957.
Occasional lecturer, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, since 1964. Paris editor, Paris Review, 1961, advisory editor, 1962.
( "The best American poet writing today"* "The title its...)
( Area Code 212 is the journey's end in ice and flames of...)
( First published in 1993, My Tokyo is Seidel's fifth col...)
( First published in 1993, My Tokyo is Seidel's fifth col...)
(Poems from the author of Going Fast. A can of shaving c...)
Children: Felicity, Samuel.