{"product_id":"9780374528911","title":"The Cosmos Trilogy","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Cosmos Trilogy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Frederick Seidel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"You Can't Like Seidel's Poems--They're Deliberately Virulent; You Can Only Gasp At Their Skill And Daring, Their Sickening Warp, Their Mercilessness.\"*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrederick Seidel's highly acclaimed\u003ci\u003e Cosmos Trilogy \u003c\/i\u003eis a triple thunderclap of darkness from the poet whom Richard Poirier has recently called \"the true heir of Walt Whitman\" and of whose first book Robert Lowell wrote \"[I] suspect the possibilities of modern poetry have been changed.  Here is power that strikes.\"  Reversing the course of Dante's \u003ci\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e, Seidel's trilogy begins in the heavens, with \u003ci\u003eThe Cosmos Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, and descends, passing through the Purgatorio of \u003ci\u003eLife on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e to arrive in Manhattan in \u003ci\u003eArea Code 212\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Seidel] grips the twentieth century between his teeth like a blade as he speaks . . . One of the more formidable poets of the last third of the century.” —\u003ci\u003eCalvin Bedient, Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[\u003ci\u003eLife on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e] is an exemplary book, Seidel's best, and one of the best by an American poet in the past twenty years.” —\u003ci\u003eMichael Hofmann, The Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Desperate [and] affecting...The poems of \u003ci\u003eArea Code 212\u003c\/i\u003e do not aspire to be up-to-the-minute; for Seidel...there is no other way to be.” —\u003ci\u003eRobyn Creswell, The Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Unafraid of being unacceptable, Seidel emerges as an oddity, one of the rare poets who, in retelling a tale from Ovid's \u003ci\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/i\u003e, can say, 'Fuck the muse,' and still sing.” —\u003ci\u003eBrian Henry, The Threepenny Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The moral thrills of his poetry can be as daunting as the moral spills, the cruel intelligence of glamour as alluring as the mystical stillness that is somewhere also at the heart of his poetry . . .  Here is the new kind of visionary, the person who really wants to change the world fast, the person who believes in something.” —\u003ci\u003eAdam Phillips, Raritan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In an era that fancies itself particularly gender-tender, [this] poet doesn't pull his punches in accounts of encounters with women. His is a conspicuously male slant on matters of sexual engagement. As a woman, and more precisely as a woman alert to every stripe of lyric fire, I find myself more moved by Seidel's brutal, excruciated 'Recessional' . . . than by any of a thousand more conventional mournings. His work deserves more celebration than it gets.” —\u003ci\u003eHeather McHugh, Lingua Franca\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374528911\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40594520539342,"sku":"9780374528911","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_240be98f-035d-4ba5-b99c-0d5c2400b3d6.jpg?v=1637809831","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374528911","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}