{"product_id":"widening-income-inequality","title":"Widening Income Inequality","description":"Seidel is the great controversialist of American poetry. Dubbed a 'transgressive adventurer,' a 'demonic gentleman,' a 'triumphant outsider,' a 'great poet of innocence,' and 'an example of the dangerous Male of the Species', his sly, witty and wide-eyed poems seem earnest one moment and flippant the next, and will see him rotating his caustic fire from high-society cocktail parties to street-level poverty, genocide to Obamacare, New York to Syria. He's never more than a turn-line from humour, and it is often when he is at his funniest that he is also at his most shocking.\n\nThe Independent said of his last collection: 'There is no contemporary poet writing in English as witty, as shrewd, as touching and as debonair as Frederick Seidel. That's a lot of praise, but he surely merits it.'\n\nWidening Income Inequality, Seidel's new collection, is a rhymed magnificence of sexual, historical, and cultural exuberance. Rarely has poetry been this dapper, or this dire, or this true.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39668053049429,"sku":"9780571330713N","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/9aa2c627-647c-4607-8f77-7d7722edb574.jpg?v=1644288241","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/widening-income-inequality","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}