‘The poems in OOGA-BOOGA are the richest yet and read like no one else’s: they’re surreal, utterly unpretentious, and suffused with the peculiar American loneliness of Raymond Chandler. While I can think of a more likable book of poems, I can scarcely imagine a better one.’
Alex Halberstadt, New York magazine [From the inside cover]
Author(s): Seidel, Frederick
Edition: 1st UK Edition
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Year: 2009
Language: English
Commentary: Uploaded by Astrophel (not so sad today!) on the 10th of July 2023
Pages: 101
City: London
Tags: American Poetry
Kill Poem 3
From Nijinsky’s Diary 7
Violin 8
Nectar 10
On Being Debonair 12
Homage to Pessoa 14
For Holly Andersen 15
Fog 16
A Red Flower 18
Dick and Fred 19
New Year’s Day, 2004 22
The Italian Girl 23
The Big Golconda Diamond 24
What Are Movies For? 25
The Owl You Heard 27
E-mail from an Owl 28
White Butterflies 29
The Castle in the Mountains 31
A Fresh Stick of Chewing Gum 33
Dante’s Beatrice 35
Bologna 37
Racer 41
At a Factory in Italy 44
France for Boys 45
Grandson Born Dead 47
Death 49
East Hampton Airport 50
A White Tiger 52
Cloclo 54
Laudatio 56
To Die For 58
Barbados 60
Climbing Everest 65
Organized Religion 67
Mother Nature 69
Broadway Melody 74
Love Song 75
Breast Cancer wives 78
Rilke 79
Casanova Getting Older 82
Il Duce 84
I Am Siam 85
The Big Jet 86
The Black-Eyed Virgins 87
Eurostar 88
Song: “The Swollen River Overthrows Its Banks” 89
Drinking in the Daytime 90
The Bush Administration 92
The Death of the Shah 96
