3 Sections
Poems
Graywolf · Print & ebook · January 6, 2015
The winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, now in paperback First I had three apocalyptic visions, each more terrible than the last.
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- Who it’s for
- Poems move between lyric, meditation, and prose essay, thinking through history, uncertainty, and time.
- Themes
- Divisions of contemporary life, History and the future, Longing to out-think time
- Pacing
- Reflective
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The winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, now in paperback First I had three apocalyptic visions, each more terrible than the last. The graves open, and the sea rises to kill us all.
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Then the doorbell rang, and I went downstairs and signed for two packages— —from "This Morning" In an array of poetic forms from the rhyming lyric to the philosophical meditation to the prose essay, 3 Sections confronts perplexing divisions of contemporary life—a wayward history, an indeterminate future, and a perpetual longing to out-think time. This is a vital book by one of America's best poets.
Forms of Reflection
Poems move between lyric, meditation, and prose essay, thinking through history, uncertainty, and time.
Come here for
- Shifts from rhyming lyric to philosophical meditation and prose essay
- Poetry that takes contemporary life’s divisions seriously
Expect
- A contemplative look at a wayward history and an indeterminate future
- A recurring longing to out-think time
Where it sits
| American Poetry | 91% |
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| Poetry About Death | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- American Poetry
- Authors
- Vijay Seshadri
- Publisher
- Graywolf
- Published
- January 6, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Divisions of contemporary life · History and the future · Longing to out-think time
- Reading lane
- American Poetry