That Was Now, This Is Then: Poems
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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."Product Details
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"Seshadri's is a voice that speaks honestly, without any patronizing, a voice that wants to see in each of us 'the free person, the truly free, free from time, space'. . . . The only way to speak in our time's moment. Or, any moment."--Ilya Kaminsky
"Vijay Seshadri conjures the poems in That Was Now, This Is Then out of absence, fashions language from the vast and wild silences surrounding our living. Seshadri's poetry presses into and recedes from our gaze all in the same gesture. . . . Inconceivably, Seshadri's best yet."--Kaveh Akbar
"Vijay Seshadri is arch and canny, a maestro of noir ironies. . . . These are poems of lacerating self-awareness and stoic compassion. That Was Now, This Is Then is a book we need, right now."--Rosanna Warren
