Frederick Seidel

Frederick Seidel has been hailed as “the poet of a new contemporary form” (Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books) and “the most frightening American poet ever” (Calvin Bedient, Boston Review). The poems in Frederick Seidel Selected Poems span more than five decades and provide readers with some of Seidel’s most powerful work. Frederick Seidel’s many books of poems include Peaches Goes It Alone, The Cosmos Trilogy, Ooga-Booga, Poems 1959–2009, Nice Weather, and Widening Income Inequality, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.