“One of the world’s most inspired and unusual poets . . . [Seidel’s] poems are a triumph of cosmic awe in the face of earthly terror.” ―Hillel Italie, USA TodayFrederick Seidel has been called many things. A “transgressive adventurer,” “a demonic gentleman,” a “triumphant outsider,” “a great poet of innocence,” and “an example of the dangerous Male of the Species,” just to name a few. Whatever you choose to call him, one thing is certain: “he radiates heat” (The New Yorker). Now add to that: the poet of aging and decrepitude. Widening Income Inequality, Seidel’s new poetry collection, is a rhymed magnificence of sexual, historical, and cultural exuberance, a sweet and bitter fever of Robespierre and Obamacare and Apollinaire, of John F. Kennedy and jihadi terror and New York City and Italian motorcycles. Rarely has poetry been this true, this dapper, or this dire. Seidel is “the most poetic of the poets and their leader into hell.”

Product Description: These are the collected poems of a master whose work includes many of the most compelling, savage, and tender poems in the language. Frederick Seidel is, in the words of the critic Adam Kirsch, “the best American poet writing today.”

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The scathing final volume to the Cosmos trilogy offers readers a 'trashy stomp' through the American landscape, landing finally in Manhattan--paradise and home. By the author of The Cosmos Poems and Life on Earth.

Beginning with a journey through Hell and ending in Heaven, the second book in this trilogy includes natural and human history--the history of the self and biography--illustrated in beautifully poetic prose. Reprint.

The award-winning author of Sunrise and Going Fast shares his poetical observations on the nature of the universe, from how it came to be to what is going to happen, its smallness and vastness, quantum mechanics, the essence of one's identity, and more. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: "I like motorcycles, the city, the telephone.TV but not to watch, just to turn it on.The women and their legs, the movies and the streets.At dawn when it's so hot the sky is almost red.The smell of both the rivers is the underworld exhumed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An award-winning author's sixth collection of poetry is filled with inventive and brutally daring verse that exposes the postmodern world in eerie, disturbing, and remarkably beautiful images. (view table of contents)

Product Description: First published in 1993, My Tokyo is Seidel's fifth collection of poems.

Poems consider Europe, espionage, the past, human sexuality, childhood, space, aging, and meaning

Poems deal with the past, mortality, war, Europe, spring, America, travel, identity, meaning, and language

Poems consider Europe, espionage, the past, human sexuality, childhood, space, aging, and meaning