3 sections

Seshadri, Vijay (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1555977162
ISBN: 9781555977160
ISBN: 155597662X
ISBN: 9781555976620
ISBN: 9781555976620 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 155597662X (alk. paper)
Physical Description: 75 pages ; 24 cm
print
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2013]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Imaginary number -- Rereading -- Trailing clouds of glory -- The dream I didn't have -- Memoir -- This morning -- Surveillance report -- Hell -- Purgatory, the film -- Purgatory, the sequel -- Heaven -- Three Urdu poems -- Mixed-media botanical drawing -- New Media -- Script meeting -- Secret police -- Guide for the perplexed -- Family happiness -- Elegy -- As if -- Nursing home -- Life of savage -- Thought problem -- Yet another scandal -- Bright copper kettles -- A school day in October -- Visiting Paris -- Three persons -- The descent of man -- Knowing -- The people I know -- Pacific fishes of Canada -- Personal essay -- Light verse.

Summary, etc.:

"3 Sections" confronts perplexing divisions of contemporary life -- a wayward history, an indeterminate future, and a present condition of wanting to outthink time.