{"product_id":"so-what","title":"So What: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bristling, beautiful new collection from \"the Dark Prince of American Poetry\" (Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSo What\u003c\/i\u003e, Frederick Seidel writes of speeding his racetrack-only Superbike across the island of Manhattan, \"illegal river to river, \u003ci\u003ewap wap wap\u003c\/i\u003e WOW!\" The poet hurtles toward the tenth decade of his life and into the sixth decade of his lightning-rod career, but the path from youth to old age is not a straight one. Throughout this book, Seidel smashes the boundaries of youth and age against each other and stirs up a surge of shotguns and wristwatches, late-blooming love and sex, and flashes of the naked face of American life. At its crest stands the poet, looking over the wreckage and creation, and he proclaims: so what.","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44458569171081,"sku":"9780374614188","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0376\/3057\/4729\/files\/imageloader_71f07e35-dcb1-476f-aca7-8c3c7883089a.jpg?v=1780843927","url":"https:\/\/thebookmarkpr.com\/products\/so-what","provider":"The Bookmark Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}