So What: Poems

By Frederick Seidel

A bristling, beautiful new collection from "the Dark Prince of American Poetry" (Dwight Garner, The New York Times).

In So What, Frederick Seidel writes of speeding his racetrack-only Superbike across the island of Manhattan, "illegal river to river, wap wap wap 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374614180
• ISBN13: 9780374614188
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.4"