Ooga-Booga

Ooga-Booga
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 112
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ISBN-10 : 9781466879782
ISBN-13 : 1466879785
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Ooga-Booga by : Frederick Seidel

Download or read book Ooga-Booga written by Frederick Seidel and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the PEN/Voelker Award, poems of love, terror, rage, and desire. Here I am, not a practical man, But clear-eyed in my contact lenses, Following no doubt a slightly different line than the others, Seeking sexual pleasure above all else, Despairing of art and of life, Seeking protection from death by seeking it On a racebike, finding release and belief on two wheels . . . --from "The Death of the Shah" The poems in Ooga-Booga are about a youthful slave owner and his aging slave, and both are the same man. This is the tenderest, most savage collection yet from Frederick Seidel, "the most frightening American poet ever" (Calvin Bedient, Boston Review).


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