Widening Income Inequality

Seidel is the great controversialist of American poetry. Dubbed a 'transgressive adventurer,' a 'demonic gentleman,' a 'triumphant outsider,' a 'great poet of innocence,' and 'an example of the dangerous Male of the Species', his sly, witty and wide-eyed poems seem earnest one moment and flippant the next, and will see him rotating his caustic fire from high-society cocktail parties to street-level poverty, genocide to Obamacare, New York to Syria. He's never more than a turn-line from humour, and it is often when he is at his funniest that he is also at his most shocking. The Independent said of his last collection: 'There is no contemporary poet writing in English as witty, as shrewd, as touching and as debonair as Frederick Seidel. That's a lot of praise, but he surely merits it.' Widening Income Inequality , Seidel's new collection, is a rhymed magnificence of sexual, historical, and cultural exuberance. Rarely has poetry been this dapper, or this dire, or this true.

Product details

• Authors: Frederick Seidel, Seidel Frederick
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2016
• EAN: 9780571330706
• ISBN: 978-0-571-33070-6
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 223 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, United States of America, USA, Modern & contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Literary studies: poetry and poets