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

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That Was Now, This Is Then: Poems by Vijay SeshadriNo 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 Americas 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.

some slippery new layer at every turn

and oppression with rage

And he makes peace with Detroit: “Slow learner that I am

his friends

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awake to the knowledge that one can never fully “go back home to your family

trying to figure out his impulses/desires/history in the midst of Brooklyn rooftops

and for it earned eighteen months in an Arctic labor camp

avant-post take on what Poetry is

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