Widening Income Inequality: Poems

✍ Scribed by Seidel, Frederick

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: en-ca
• Weight: 56 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

"Frederick 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. Frederick Seidel is "the most poetic of the poets and their leader into hell.""--;"A new collection from the "triumphant outsider in American poetry""--;Remembering Elaine's -- City -- Liftoff -- February 30th -- France Now -- At a Party -- Beautiful Fabu -- Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Robespierre -- Le Pont Mirabeau -- Pussy Days -- A Problem with the Landing Gear -- Aeneidos Liber Quartus -- The Pond -- America -- Patek Philippe Ref. 3842 -- Cors de chasse -- The Little Car -- Punta Cana -- Boom and Boom and Boom -- A Man About to Come -- Winter Day, Birdsong -- Annie -- Autumn Leaves -- Breaking News -- March 2012 -- Man with a Mouth -- Model Train -- The Bird on the Crocodile's Back -- The Lovely Redhead -- Song -- Snowing -- Psalm -- Song to the Moon -- Green Absinthe -- Don't Blink, Life! -- Monday Morning -- Man in Slicker -- The End of Summer -- The Ballad of Ferguson, Missouri -- Claudio Castiglione and Massimo Tamburini -- Montauk -- Down Below Riverside Park -- Karl -- Fred Seidel -- Morning and Melancholia -- Sunshine -- Sunset at Swan Lake -- Spring Fever -- Hip-Hop -- Polio Days -- Versailles -- My First Wife -- To Stop the World from Ending -- Me -- Poet at Seventy-Eight -- To Philip Roth, for His Eightieth -- What a Day -- Widening Income Inequality.