{"product_id":"ooga-booga-9780374530976","title":"Ooga-Booga","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The best American poet writing today\"* \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Sun \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The poems in \u003ci\u003eOoga-Booga \u003c\/i\u003eare [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, \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eOoga-Booga \u003c\/i\u003eis] 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, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrederick Seidel\u003c\/b\u003e's previous books of poems include \u003ci\u003eThe Cosmos Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eFinal Solutions\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSunrise; These Days\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003ePoems, 1959-1979. \u003c\/i\u003eHe received the 2002 PEN\/Voelker Award for Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50623092785426,"sku":"9780374530976","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_baf74483-98f0-4b19-8bfc-42564a4f188b.jpg?v=1732591724","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ooga-booga-9780374530976","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}