Peaches Goes It Alone

Poems

By: Frederick Seidel

Narrated by: Frederick Seidel

This program is read by the author.

A stunning new collection from a “beguiling and magisterial” poet (The New York Times Book Review)

This is the End of Days.
This is what we’ve been waiting for always.
I walked over to the Hudson River, heading for Mars.
Each poem of mine is a suicide belt.
I say that to my girlfriend Life.

Peaches Goes It Alone, Frederick Seidel’s newest collection of poems, begins with global warming and ends with Aphrodite. In between is everything. Peaches Goes It Alone presents the sexual and political themes that have long preoccupied Seidel - and thrilled and offended his audiences. Lyrical, grotesque, and elegiac, Peaches Goes It Alone adds new music and menace to Seidel’s masterful body of work.

©2020 Frederick Seidel (P)2020 Macmillan Audio

Haunting, heavy and gorgeous.

Peaches Goes It Alone is a wonderful piece of work. Seidel has to be one of the finest poets alive and working and ever. The poems are funny, violent, sad, musical, amazing. The book is like a twisted cartoon that conjures every emotion conceivable. Poetry at its best and most interesting. I’m grateful to have experienced it in the poets own voice. Please buy this.