Poems 1959-2009

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EVENING MAN

OOGA-BOOGA

THE COSMOS TRILOGY

BARBADOS

AREA CODE 212

LIFE ON EARTH

THE COSMOS POEMS

GOING FAST

MY TOKYO

THESE DAYS

POEMS, 1959–1979

SUNRISE

FINAL SOLUTIONS

POEMS
1959–2009

Frederick Seidel

FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX

NEW YORK

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

Copyright © 2009 by Frederick Seidel

All rights reserved

Distributed in Canada by Douglas & McIntyre Ltd.

Printed in the United States of America

First edition, 2009

Evening Man
originally appeared as a limited-edition chapbook.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Seidel, Frederick, 1936–

    [Poems. Selections]

    Poems 1959–2009 / Frederick Seidel.— 1st ed.

        p.  cm.

    Includes index.

    
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CONTENTS

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EVENING MAN
(2008)

Boys

American

In the Mirror

Portia Dew

A Song for Cole Porter

“Sii romantico, Seidel, tanto per cambiare”

Bipolar November

Miami in the Arctic Circle

Coconut

Marriage

Ode to Spring

Home

I Own Nothing

I'm Here This

Italy

Mr. Delicious

Mu'allaqa

Darkening in the Dark

The Death of Anton Webern

Weirdly Warm Day in January

Pain Management

Do You Doha?

Sunlight

In a Previous Life

Evening Man

My Poetry

Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin

OOGA-BOOGA
(2006)

Kill Poem

From Nijinsky's Diary

Violin

Nectar

On Being Debonair

Homage to Pessoa

For Holly Andersen

Fog

A Red Flower

Dick and Fred

New Year's Day, 2004

The Italian Girl

The Big Golconda Diamond

What Are Movies For?

The Owl You Heard

E-mail from an Owl

White Butterflies

The Castle in the Mountains

A Fresh Stick of Chewing Gum

Dante's Beatrice

Bologna

Racer

At a Factory in Italy

France for Boys

Grandson Born Dead

Death

East Hampton Airport

A White Tiger

Cloclo

Laudatio

To Die For

Barbados

Climbing Everest

Organized Religion

Mother Nature

Broadway Melody

Love Song

Breast Cancer

Rilke

Casanova Getting Older

Il Duce

I Am Siam

The Big Jet

The Black-Eyed Virgins

Eurostar

Song: “The Swollen River Overthrows Its Banks”

Drinking in the Daytime

The Bush Administration

The Death of the Shah

THE COSMOS TRILOGY
(2003)

The Cosmos Poems
(2000)

 1. Into the Emptiness

 2. Mirror Full of Stars

 3. Who the Universe Is

 4. Universes

 5. Black Stovepipe Hat

 6. The Childhood Sunlight

 7. Beyond the Event Horizon

 8. Blue and Pink

 9. Galaxies

10. Feminists in Space

11. This New Planetarium

12. Invisible Dark Matter

13. A Twittering Ball

14. The Star

15. Special Relativity

16. Take Me to Infinity

17. Poem

18. Supersymmetry

19. Everything

20. Happiness

21. The Eleven Dimensions

22. The Royal Palm

23. Faint Galaxy

24. Edward Witten

25. The Birth of the Universe

26. Starlight

27. Quantum Mechanics

28. It Is the Morning of the Universe

29. Forever

30. Forever

31. Forever

32. The Last Remaining Angel

33. In the Green Mountains

Life on Earth
(2001)

34. Bali

35. French Polynesia

36. The Opposite of a Dark Dungeon

37. Star Bright

38. Goodness

39. Joan of Arc

40. Doctor Love

41. Fever

42. Blood

43. Holly Andersen

44. At New York Hospital

45. Drinks at the Carlyle

46. Chiquita Gregory

47. To Start at End

48. We Have Ignition

49. Eternity

50. The Master Jeweler Joel Rosenthal

51. In Spite of Everything

52. Springtime

53. Summer

54. Fall Snowfall

55. Christmas

56. Cosmopolitans at the Paradise

57. Sex

58. Song

59. The Seal

60. Her Song

61. Green Dress, 1999

62. Letter to the Editors of
Vogue

63. James Baldwin in Paris

64. St. Louis, Missouri

65. Hamlet

66. Frederick Seidel

Area Code 212
(2002)

67. I Do

68. The Bathroom Door

69. Downtown

70. The Serpent

71. Getaway

72. Nothing Will

73. pH

 74. Venus

 75. Nigra Sum

 76. Rain in Hell

 77. Dido with Dildo

 78. January

 79. February

 80. In Cap Ferrat

 81. March

 82. Easter

 83. April

 84. May

 85. Venus Wants Jesus

 86. MV Agusta Rally, Cascina Costa, Italy

 87. June

 88. June Allyson and Mae West

 89. July

 90. Hugh Jeremy Chisholm

 91. August

 92. September

 93. The Tenth Month

 94. Fall

 95. October

 96. November

 97. God Exploding

 98. The War of the Worlds

 99. December

100. One Hundred

GOING FAST
(1998)

For a New Planetarium

Midnight

Prayer

The Night Sky

Stars

The Stars Above the Empty Quarter

Contents Under Pressure

New York

At Gracie Mansion

The Pierre Hotel, New York, 1946

Hotel Carlyle, New York

Das Kapital

Christmas

Mood Indigo

Noon

Spring

Dune Road, Southampton

London

In Memoriam

The Great Depression

Paris & Tahiti

The Ballad of La Palette

Anyone with the Wish

The Resumption of Nuclear Testing in the South Pacific

Faster

A Gallop to Farewell

A Vampire in the Age of AIDS

Another Muse

Red Guards of Love

Yankee Doodle

Ovid,
Metamorphoses
X, 298–518

Heart Art

Spin

Puberty

The Infinite

True Story

Hot Night, Lightning

The Storm

Little Song

Eisenhower Years

Victory

Vermont

Milan

Racine

Milan

Bologna

A Pretty Girl

Going Fast

Going Fast

MY TOKYO
(1993)

To the Muse

From a High Floor

The Hour

Hair in a Net

Rackets

The Complete Works of Anton Webern

The Ritz, Paris

Untitled

Glory

The Empress Rialto

Lorraine Motel, Memphis

The New Woman

The Former Governor of California

Life After Death

Sonnet

Burkina Faso

Pol Pot

Stroke

Chartres

Autumn

The Lighting of the Candles

The Lover

The

The Death of Meta Burden in an Avalanche

The Second Coming

My Tokyo

Recessional

THESE DAYS
(1989)

Scotland

Flame

Our Gods

Empire

The New Cosmology

A Row of Federal Houses

That Fall

A Dimpled Cloud

The Blue-Eyed Doe

On Wings of Song

Morphine

Elms

The Final Hour

Jane Canfield (1897–1984)

The Little White Dog

AIDS Days

Gethsemane

Stanzas

Early Sunday Morning in the Cher

The Last Poem in the Book

SUNRISE
(1980)

1968

Death Valley

The Trip

The Room and the Cloud

The Soul Mate

Sunrise

“Not to Be Born Is Obviously Best of All”

To Robert Lowell and Osip Mandelstam

Finals

Men and Woman

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