Description
No one blends ironic intelligence, emotional frankness, radical self-awareness, and complex humor the way Vijay Seshadri does. In this, his fourth collection, he affirms his place as one of America's greatest living poets. That Was Now, This Is Then takes on the planar paradoxes of time and space, destabilizing highly tuned lyrics and elegies with dizzying turns in poems of unrequitable longing, of longing for longing, of longing to be found, of grief. In these poems, Seshadri's speaker becomes the subject, the reader becomes the writer, and the multiplying refracted narratives yield an "anguish so pure it almost / feels like joy."
The brilliant new collection from Vijay Seshadri, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 3 Sections
About the Author
Vijay Seshadri is the author of 3 Sections, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; The Long Meadow, winner of the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets; and Wild Kingdom. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Book Information
ISBN 9781644450369
Author Vijay Seshadri
Format Hardback
Page Count 88
Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.
Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S.
Weight(grams) 290g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 189mm * 14mm
The brilliant new collection from Vijay Seshadri, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 3 Sections
About the Author
Vijay Seshadri is the author of 3 Sections, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; The Long Meadow, winner of the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets; and Wild Kingdom. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Book Information
ISBN 9781644450369
Author Vijay Seshadri
Format Hardback
Page Count 88
Imprint Graywolf Press,U.S.
Publisher Graywolf Press,U.S.
Weight(grams) 290g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 189mm * 14mm
