num_pages: 112
description: From the winner of the PEN/Voelker Award, poems of love, terror,rage, and desire.Here I am, not a practical man,But clear-eyed in my contact lenses,Following no doubt a slightly different line than the others,Seeking sexual pleasure above all else,Despairing of art and of life,Seeking protection from death by seeking itOn a racebike, finding release and belief on two wheels . . .--from "The Death of the Shah"The poems in Ooga-Booga are about a youthful slave owner and his aging slave, and both are the same man. This is the tenderest, most savage collection yet from "the most frightening American poet ever" (Calvin Bedient, Boston Review ).
language: English
title: Ooga-Booga: Poems
titlecomplete: Ooga-Booga: Poems
genres: Fiction, American, Poetry, School, Contemporary, 21st Century
ratings_count: 466
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Poetry, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Poetry
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux