The extraordinary second collection by Vijay Seshadri, winner of the 2003 James Laughlin award of The Academy of American Poets We hold it against you that you survived. People better than you are dead, but you still punch the clock. Your body has wizened but has not bled -from Survivor Vijay Seshadri's first collection of poems, Wild Kingdom , was celebrated as one of the most exciting debuts in years. In The Long Meadow , Seshadri presents a brilliant array of formally inventive and emotionally powerful ...
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The extraordinary second collection by Vijay Seshadri, winner of the 2003 James Laughlin award of The Academy of American Poets We hold it against you that you survived. People better than you are dead, but you still punch the clock. Your body has wizened but has not bled -from Survivor Vijay Seshadri's first collection of poems, Wild Kingdom , was celebrated as one of the most exciting debuts in years. In The Long Meadow , Seshadri presents a brilliant array of formally inventive and emotionally powerful new poems in which the poet's wit and vivacity are poised against the alarming complexities of human experience. Through disparate forms and strategies, from the long narrative and the brief rhyming lyric to the prose meditation, The Long Meadow looks into and through our troubled world with a poetic sensibility that transforms history into metaphysics and disaster into possibility. Here is the voice of one of contemporary poetry's new masters.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Stated First Graywolf Printing, with full number line. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; boards and text also very good. Unclipped dust jacket. NOT an ex-library copy, NO remainder mark. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. First Edition. First edition, first printing (full numberline). Jacket is present with just a touch of shelfwear-very minimal. Text clean and unmarked. We try to note every flaw we can find, and we are quite picky, so buy with confidence! 100% guaranteed!
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Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 7 x 9"; GOOD / DUST JACKET VERY GOOD. Signed by the author on the title page. 58 pages. Text is very clean. Slight musty odor. Green board with white lettering on the spine. Cover is gently worn. DJ has some light creasing and rubbing. Binding and hinges are firm.
