That Was Now, This Is Then: Poems
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."
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That Was Now, This Is Then: Poems
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."
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That Was Now, This Is Then: Poems

That Was Now, This Is Then: Poems

by Vijay Seshadri
That Was Now, This Is Then: Poems

That Was Now, This Is Then: Poems

by Vijay Seshadri

Overview

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."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781644450741
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Publication date: 01/11/2022
Pages: 80
Product dimensions: 6.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.30(d)

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.

Table of Contents

1

Road Trip 5

Commas, Dashes, Ellipses, Full Stops, Question Marks 7

Dialectic 9

Meeting (Thick) 10

Meeting (Thin) 11

Birding 13

Nemesis 14

Enlightenment 15

Robocall 16

Who Knows Where or When? 17

2

Your Living Eyes 21

Collins Ferry Landing 22

City of Grief 27

Cliffhanging 29

Goya's Mired Men Fighting with Cudgels 31

Night City 33

3

The Idol of the Tribe 37

Man and Woman Talking 39

Marriage 42

Visiting San Francisco 43

Who Is This Guy? 45

North American Sequence 47

Thunderstruck 49

The Estuary 50

Soliloquy 52

To the Reader 55

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