{"product_id":"so-what-frederick-seidel-9780374609184","title":"So What: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bristling, beautiful new collection from \"the Dark Prince of American Poetry\" (Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSo What\u003c\/i\u003e, Frederick Seidel writes of speeding his racetrack-only Superbike across the island of Manhattan, \"illegal river to river, \u003ci\u003ewap wap wap\u003c\/i\u003e WOW!\" The poet hurtles toward the tenth decade of his life and into the sixth decade of his lightning-rod career, but the path from youth to old age is not a straight one. Throughout this book, Seidel smashes the boundaries of youth and age against each other and stirs up a surge of shotguns and wristwatches, late-blooming love and sex, and flashes of the naked face of American life. At its crest stands the poet, looking over the wreckage and creation, and he proclaims: so what.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frederick Seidel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374609187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374609184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/24\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d","brand":"Frederick Seidel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46747880358143,"sku":"9780374609184","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9ba32e57-6b86-4ed2-9091-5d8328de4ad3.jpg?v=1743585003","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/so-what-frederick-seidel-9780374609184","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}