Ooga-Booga

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 itOn a racebike, finding release and belief on two wheels . . .--from "e;The Death of the Shah"e;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, "e;the most frightening American poet ever"e; (Calvin Bedient, Boston Review).