Going Fast Author:Frederick Seidel "In American poetry today there is no one with [Seidel's] sheer ambition, comprehensive sense of our times, sophistication, nerve and skill." --Lawrence Joseph, The Nation I like motorcycles, the city, the telephone. TV but not to watch, just to turn it on. The women and their legs, the movies and the streets. At dawn when it's so hot the sky ... more »is almost red. The smell of both the rivers is the underworld exhumed. --from "At Gracie Mansion" Frederick Seidel's sound and power, his heat and beautiful coldness, are unique and instantly recognizable. The poems in Going Fast, his sixth collection, are set in New York, London, Paris, Milan, Bologna, and Tahiti.« less