Poetry Book Club "That Was Now, This Is Then: Poems" by Vijay Seshadri

117 S. Pineapple Ave.,Sarasota FL 34236

13 April, 2022

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The Poetry Book Club led by Doug Knowlton. This month’s selection is "That Was Now, This Is Then: Poems " by Vijay Seshadri. The Poetry Book Club led by Doug Knowlton. Meeting in-person at our new store location, 117 S. Pineapple Ave. This month’s selection is That Was Now, This Is Then: Poems by Vijay Seshadri. A book club ticket is $16 which includes a copy of That Was Now, This Is Then. Seating is limited out of caution due to the continuing Covid situation. We require that you wear a mask at Bookstore1 events to protect yourself and others. About That Was Now, This Is Then: 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." .................................................................................... Click here to go the Bookstore1Sarasota website.