So What

A bristling, invigorating new collection from the eminent American poet Frederick Seidel declares ''I''m not as old as I used to be. I''m getting young.'' In So What , he speeds across the island of Manhattan on his racetrack-only Superbike, hurtling into the tenth decade of his life and sixth decade of his extraordinary career. But the path from youth to old age has not been straightforward. With a disarming combination of acuity and playfulness, the poet confronts his vulnerability while using his artfulness as a form of subversion. Rather than contemplating a return to childlike innocence, he writes, ''I explode with rage and age.'' In doing so, he summons up a tidal surge full of shotguns and wristwatches, late-blooming love and sex, and stark glimpses of American life. At its crest stands the poet, looking over all this wreckage and creation, and he proclaims: so what.

Product details

• Authors: Frederick Seidel, Seidel Frederick
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 14.08.2025
• EAN: 9780571395958
• ISBN: 978-0-571-39595-8
• No. of pages: 152
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry, POETRY / American / General, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), POETRY / Jewish, Poetry / poems by individual poets