"The best American poet writing today"* "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, "The New York Sun
""The poems in "Ooga-Booga "are [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, "New York
"magazine
"["Ooga-Booga "is] 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, "The New York Times Book Review"
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