Synopses & Reviews
The second book of an extravagant work-in-progress
What's Joel
Got to do but let the jewel
Hatch
The light and hook
It to the flesh
It will outlast
And point the staring woman
At a mirror?
--from "The Master Jeweler Joel Rosenthal"
Dante's Divine Comedy begins with a journey through Hell and ends in Heaven. Frederick Seidel's trilogy The Cosmos Poems begins in the heavens and descends.
Life on Earth is the second book in this trilogy. It includes natural and human history, which are the history of the self, and biography, which is the history of everything else, told in vignettes of beauty, sublimity, horror, and regret.
Review
"[Seidel] grips the twentieth century between his teeth like a blade as he speaks . . . One of the more formidable poets of the last third of the century." --Calvin Bedient,
Poetry
Synopsis
The second book of an extravagant work-in-progress
"What's Joel"
"Got to do but let the jewel"
"Hatch"
"The light and hook"
"It to the flesh"
"It will outlast"
"And point the staring woman"
"At a mirror?"
--from "The Master Jeweler Joel Rosenthal"
Dante's "Divine Comedy" begins with a journey through Hell and ends in Heaven. Frederick Seidel's trilogy "The Cosmos Poems" begins in the heavens and descends.
"Life on Earth "is the second book in this trilogy. It includes natural and human history, which are the history of the self, and biography, which is the history of everything else, told in vignettes of beauty, sublimity, horror, and regret.
The second book of an extravagant work-in-progress
"What's Joel"
"Got to do but let the jewel"
"Hatch"
"The light and hook"
"It to the flesh"
"It will outlast"
"And point the staring woman"
"At a mirror?"
--from "The Master Jeweler Joel Rosenthal"
Dante's "Divine Comedy" begins with a journey through Hell and ends in Heaven. Frederick Seidel's trilogy "The Cosmos Poems" begins in the heavens and descends.
"Life on Earth "is the second book in this trilogy. It includes natural and human history, which are the history of the self, and biography, which is the history of everything else, told in vignettes of beauty, sublimity, horror, and regret.
About the Author
Frederick Seidel's previous books of poems include
Final Solutions;
Sunrise, winner of the Lamont Prize and the 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award;
These Days;
Poems, 1959-1979;
My Tokyo;
Going Fast; and
The Cosmos Poems.