Betweenness

By Varun Ravindran

Varun Ravindran's full-length debut, Betweenness, is poetic polyphony and counterpoint. Formally inventive, at times layering multiple voices, and at other points, implementing sheet music as poetic form, Ravindran explores spirituality; his experience as an immigrant existing in the peripheries of both Indian and American culture, but part of neither; and of history, as he speaks on his late father and grandafther, both of whom struggled with alcoholism until their deaths. Accumulating into chords and intervals, these poems unite in a song of self that contains multitudes of voice and of form. Piece-by-piece they are hyaline and complex, while the affect of the whole crescendoes into an authentic and important new voice in American poetry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936097605
• ISBN13: 9781936097609
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Baobab Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 8.8"