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That was now, this is then : poems / Vijay Seshadri.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2020]Description: 55 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
ISBN:
  • 9781644450369
  • 1644450364
Uniform titles:
  • Poems. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Road trip -- Commas, dashes, ellipse, full stops, question marks -- Dialectic -- Meeting (thick) -- Meeting (thin) -- Birding -- Nemesis -- Enlightenment -- Robocall -- Who knows where or when? -- Your living eyes -- Collins Ferry Landing -- City of grief -- Cliffhanging -- Goya's mired men fighting with cudgels -- Night city -- The idol of the tribe -- Man and woman talking -- Marriage -- Visiting San Francisco -- Who is this guy? -- North American sequence -- Thunderstruck -- The estuary -- Soliloquy.
Summary: In this collection of poetry, Seshadri 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 profound grief. -- adapted from jacket
List(s) this item appears in: Poetry Month
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 811.6 S493 Available 33111010419998
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The brilliant new collection from Vijay Seshadri, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 3 Sections

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."

In this collection of poetry, Seshadri 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 profound grief. -- adapted from jacket

Road trip -- Commas, dashes, ellipse, full stops, question marks -- Dialectic -- Meeting (thick) -- Meeting (thin) -- Birding -- Nemesis -- Enlightenment -- Robocall -- Who knows where or when? -- Your living eyes -- Collins Ferry Landing -- City of grief -- Cliffhanging -- Goya's mired men fighting with cudgels -- Night city -- The idol of the tribe -- Man and woman talking -- Marriage -- Visiting San Francisco -- Who is this guy? -- North American sequence -- Thunderstruck -- The estuary -- Soliloquy.

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