Life on Earth : Poems

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.Seidel, Frederick is the author of 'Life on Earth : Poems', published 2002 under ISBN 9780374528461 and ISBN 0374528462.