Frederick Seidel
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Frederick Seidel is a poet born in 1936 in St Louis, Missouri. He is the author of eight volumes of poetry, most notably My Tokyo (1994), Going Fast (1998),and The Cosmos Trilogy (2003). The latter, an inversion of Dante's Divine Comedy, begins in a secular cosmos and concludes in a Manhattan inferno on September 11, 2001. His most recent collection is Ooga-Booga.
In the last ten years, Seidel's work has examined both the chaos and decadence of contemporary American culture, often with a devastating wit.
In 2002, he was awarded the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry.