The Long meadow : poems

by Vijay Seshadri

Paper Book, 2004

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Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c2004.

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Now in paperback,The Long Meadow, the highly praised second collection by Vijay Seshadri, winner of the 2003 James Laughlin Award from 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"

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LibraryThing member aulsmith
I really enjoyed these poems which often start with very concrete images and drift off into the numinous void of being. I especially enjoyed the memoir of Seshadri touring U.S. Civil War battlefields as a child with his Civil War obsessed Indian-American father.

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