Ooga-Booga David Gibbins together with Ravensbeck

together with Ravensbeck

Russian and our other languages as well

and in the middle of it all stands Benedict Thorpe: a scientist of tremendous charm and murky national loyalties

a professor at California State University

Ooga-Booga David Gibbins together with RavensbeckThe best American poet writing today* The title itself a parody of a threat, something the monster under the bed might grunt manages to capture the weird dialectic of Mr. Seidel's black comedy: He is scary, but funny, but still scary . . . You would have go back to confessional masters like Lowell and Berryman to find poetry as daringly self revealing, as risky and compelling, as the best of Frederick Seidel's. *Adam Kirsch, The New York Sun The poems