{"product_id":"so-what-poems-hardcover","title":"So What: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrederick Seidel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bristling, beautiful new collection from \"the Dark Prince of American Poetry\" (Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSo What\u003c\/i\u003e, Frederick Seidel writes of speeding his racetrack-only Superbike across the island of Manhattan, \"illegal river to river, \u003ci\u003ewap wap wap\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrederick Seidel\u003c\/b\u003e has written many books of poems, including \u003ci\u003eThe Cosmos Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOoga-Booga\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoems 1959-2009\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNice Weather\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWidening Income Inequality\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePeaches Goes It Alone\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFrederick Seidel Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 25, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749777309984,"sku":"9780374614188","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/046d58e76e13ebd92fe4deae99544ade.webp?v=1779938250","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/so-what-poems-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}