Poems 1959-2009 - Paperbackby Frederick Seidel (Author) These are the collected poems of a master whose work includes many of the most compelling, savage, and tender poems in the language. Frederick Seidel is, in the words of the critic Adam Kirsch, "the best American poet writing today." Author Biography Frederick Seidel's previous collection, Ooga Booga, received the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the