{"product_id":"ooga-booga-book-frederick-seidel-9780374530976","title":"Ooga-Booga","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The best American poet writing today\"*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"The poems in \u003ci\u003eOoga-Booga\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"[\u003ci\u003eOoga-Booga\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50133052981521,"sku":"CIN0374530971VG","price":9.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50876436283665,"sku":"GOR011915456","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51001825165585,"sku":"NIN9780374530976","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51423065407761,"sku":"CIN0374530971G","price":4.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0374530971.jpg?v=1751358091","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/ooga-booga-book-frederick-seidel-9780374530976","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}