{"product_id":"ooga-booga-seidel-frederick-9780374530976","title":"Ooga-Booga","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The best American poet writing today\"* \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The title itself--a parody of a threat, something the monster under the bed might grunt--manages to capture the weird dialectic of Mr. Seidel's black comedy: He is scary, but funny, but still scary . . . You would have go back to confessional masters like Lowell and Berryman to find poetry as daringly self-revealing, as risky and compelling, as the best of Frederick Seidel's.\" --*Adam Kirsch, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Sun \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The poems in \u003ci\u003eOoga-Booga \u003c\/i\u003eare [Seidel's] richest yet and read like no one else's: They're surreal without being especially difficult, and utterly unpretentious, suffused with the peculiar American loneliness of Raymond Chandler . . . [The poem 'Barbados'] is the loveliest Seidel has written to date, and he's perfected the subtle rhythms and rhymes that rocket the stanzas forward like his Ducati 916 SPS. While I can think of a more likable book of poems, I can scarcely imagine a better one.\" --Alex Halberstadt, \u003ci\u003eNew York \u003c\/i\u003emagazine \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eOoga-Booga \u003c\/i\u003eis] as beguiling and magisterial as anything [Seidel] has written. I can't decide whether Seidel has more in common with Philip Larkin or John Ashbery, but the fact that he can prompt such a bizarre question is more revealing than any possible answer.\" --Joel Brouwer, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Seidel Frederick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374530971\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374530976\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/25\/2007 pg. 32","brand":"Seidel Frederick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990163489023,"sku":"9780374530976","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9324b5dc-74c4-46e3-96ca-f59642f8d0e3.jpg?v=1683303351","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ooga-booga-seidel-frederick-9780374530976","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}