Vijay Seshadri

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

The second collection of poems by the author of Wild Kingdom and the winner of the 2003 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets presents new poems that are brimming with humor and dynamism, focusing on the line between history and metaphysics in both long narrative verse and rhyming lyrical snapshots.

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