Wild Kingdom: Poems

by Vijay Seshadri and Cleo Qian

Book Overview

Wild 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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555972365
• ISBN13: 9781555972363
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Stunning Debut

It is difficult reading this book to believe this is, in fact, the poet's first collection. Seshadri has a confidence one usually finds among the seasoned poet. He writes with a simplicity of style that could only be labelled elegant. How refreshing that this "elegance" is used to relate and describe such things as the cityscape of urban america and reggae bands while in another instance it is capturing the details of the local flora. It is easy now to understand how Mr. Seshadri placed his poems in such prestigious magazines as ANTAEUS, THE NEW YORKER, and THE PARIS REVIEW. His poems are well-made, and that is one of the highest compliments I can pay a poet. I will certainly be on the lookout for his poems as they appear in magaiznes in the future.//C. Dale Young, Associate Editor of NEW ENGLAND REVIEW