{"product_id":"so-what-poems-9780374609184","title":"So What: Poems","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51384143773970,"sku":"9780374609184","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_789214eb-2902-4303-a15d-d9e5f476bab5.jpg?v=1750164492","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/so-what-poems-9780374609184","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}