Talking in the Library Series: Vijay Seshadri
Vijay Seshadri

The Mary Tefft White Cultural Center Lecture Series presents Vijay Seshadri, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 4:30pm in the Mary Tefft White Cultural Center, University Library.
Vijay Seshadri and the Power of Poetry
Books
3 Sections by Vijay SeshadriWinner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 3 Sections by Vijay Seshadri's is assured and expert, his line as canny as ever. 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 present condition of wanting to out-think time. This is an extraordinary book, witty and vivacious, by one of the most important poets of our time.
The Long Meadow by Vijay SeshadriNow 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
Wild Kingdom by Vijay SeshadriWild Kingdom marks the debut of an audacious new voice in American poetry. Vijay Seshadri's poems inhabit the crossroads of history and wilderness, the imaginative realm where fir and alder trees share a common life with reggae bands, refugees, office buildings, and speeding traffic.