{"product_id":"that-was-now-this-is-vijay-seshadri-9781644450369","title":"That Was Now, This Is Then: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe brilliant new collection from Vijay Seshadri, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003ci\u003e3 Sections \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo 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. \u003ci\u003eThat Was Now\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e This Is Then\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vijay Seshadri\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1644450364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644450369\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 7.20w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/17\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2020 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2020 pg. 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/27\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVijay Seshadri \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003e3 Sections\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer Prize; \u003ci\u003eThe Long Meadow\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets; and \u003ci\u003eWild Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vijay Seshadri","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44046489747711,"sku":"9781644450369","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_281f64a8-49c0-4fe8-84f1-130224ce849b.jpg?v=1684984847","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/that-was-now-this-is-vijay-seshadri-9781644450369","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}