Peaches Goes It Alone, Frederick Seidel
Peaches Goes It Alone, Frederick Seidel
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Peaches Goes It Alone
Poems

Author: Frederick Seidel

Narrator: Frederick Seidel

Unabridged: 2 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/14/2020


Synopsis

This program is read by the author.

A stunning new collection from a “beguiling and magisterial” poet (The New York Times Book Review)

This is the End of Days.
This is what we’ve been waiting for always.
I walked over to the Hudson River, heading for Mars.
Each poem of mine is a suicide belt.
I say that to my girlfriend Life.

Peaches Goes It Alone, Frederick Seidel’s newest collection of poems, begins with global warming and ends with Aphrodite. In between is everything. Peaches Goes It Alone presents the sexual and political themes that have long preoccupied Seidel—and thrilled and offended his readers. Lyrical, grotesque, and elegiac, Peaches Goes It Alone adds new music and menace to Seidel’s masterful body of work.

About Frederick Seidel

Frederick Seidel's books of poems include Final Solutions; Sunrise, winner of the Lamont Prize and the 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award; These Days; My Tokyo; Going Fast; The Cosmos Poems; Life on Earth; Ooga-Booga; and Poems 1959-2009.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Matthew

The greatest living writer—that is all. If you have not entered this particular world, this body and mind, this is an odd place to start: late Seidel is more curt, peremptory, the shapes he attempts are less ambitious. But for sheer vivid eyeball-peeling electricity Seidel is first among equals.......more

Goodreads review by Stephen

Magnificent......more

Yet another great collection from Seidel. Not as strong as Ooga-Booga in my opinion, but a delightful read nonetheless. "A spaceship bigger than the world / Is coming in for a landing on the world."......more