Authors: Frederick Seidel
Also by Frederick Seidel
EVENING MAN
OOGA-BOOGA
THE COSMOS TRILOGY
BARBADOS
AREA CODE 212
LIFE ON EARTH
THE COSMOS POEMS
GOING FAST
MY TOKYO
THESE DAYS
POEMS, 1959â1979
SUNRISE
FINAL SOLUTIONS
Frederick Seidel
FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX
NEW YORK
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Copyright © 2009 by Frederick Seidel
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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, 1936â
    [Poems. Selections]
    Poems 1959â2009 / Frederick Seidel.â 1st ed.
        p.  cm.
    Includes index.
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ISBN
-13: 978-0-374-12655-1 (alk. paper)
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ISBN
-10: 0-374-12655-0 (alk. paper)
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“Sii romantico, Seidel, tanto per cambiare”
Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin
Song: “The Swollen River Overthrows Its Banks”
 7. Beyond the Event Horizon
25. The Birth of the Universe
28. It Is the Morning of the Universe
36. The Opposite of a Dark Dungeon
50. The Master Jeweler Joel Rosenthal
56. Cosmopolitans at the Paradise
62. Letter to the Editors of
Vogue
 86. MV Agusta Rally, Cascina Costa, Italy
 88. June Allyson and Mae West
The Stars Above the Empty Quarter
The Pierre Hotel, New York, 1946
The Resumption of Nuclear Testing in the South Pacific
Ovid,
Metamorphoses
X, 298â518
The Complete Works of Anton Webern
The Former Governor of California
The Death of Meta Burden in an Avalanche
Early Sunday Morning in the Cher
“Not to Be Born Is Obviously Best of All”