This is the best kind of poetry: funny, disturbing, often ugly, always honest. Reading Seidel, one feels like the medium has relevancy in the modern age, which is saying a lot. For a true (and still living) American classic, look no further.
Recommended by Zak
Joseph O'Neill discusses and signs Netherland
06/25/2008 7:00 pm
Location:
Street:
Vroman's Bookstore
Additional:
695 E. Colorado Blvd
City:
Pasadena
,
Province:
California
Postal Code:
91101
Country:
United States
In a post-9/11 New York, Hans--a banker originally from the Netherlands--finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and untethered, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic and charming Trinidadian, begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country.