The second book of an extravagant work in progress What's Joel Got to do but let the jewel Hatch The light and hook It to the flesh It will outlast And point the staring woman At a mirror? --from "The Master Jeweler Joel Rosenthal" Dante's Divine Comedy begins with a journey through Hell and ends in Heaven. Frederick Seidel's Cosmos Poems trilogy begins in the heavens, with The Cosmos Poems, and descends. Life on Earth is the second book in this trilogy. It includes natural and human history, which are the history of the self, and biography, which is the history of everything else, told in vignettes of beauty, sublimity, horror, and regret.

Life on Earth

Literature & Fiction

Frederick Seidel

Poetry

Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)

Obama as American Gorbachev; Roberto Bolaño canonized. Interviews with David Harvey and an Anonymous Hedge Fund Manager. Molly Young takes adderall, Mark Greif eats locally, A. S. Hamrah sees every Iraq war movie.

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ROBERTO BOLAÑO

Mark Greif

Benjamin Kunkel

thomas-bernhard

A.S. Hamrah

Elif Batuman

David Harvey

Wesley Yang

Ceridwen Dovey

DJ/Rupture

Britt Peterson

Molly Young

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