THAT WAS NOW, THIS IS THEN

The brilliant new collection from Vijay Seshadri, author of the Pulitzer Prizewinning 3 SectionsNo one blends ironic intelligence, emotional frankness, radical self-awareness, and complex humor the way Vijay Seshadri does. In this, his fourth collection, he affir ms 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 longi ng to be fou...[Llegir més]