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Srikanth Reddy

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Srikanth Reddy is the author of Underworld Lit (Wave Books, 2020), Voyager—named one of the best books of poetry in 2011 by The New Yorker, The Believer, and NPR—and Facts for Visitors, which won the 2005 Asian American Literary Award. He has written on poetry for The New York Times and The New Republic, and his book of literary criticism, Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry, was published by Oxford University Press in 2012. The NEA, the Creative Capital Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation have awarded him grants and fellowships, and in Fall 2015, he delivered the Bagley Wright Lectures in Poetry. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the doctoral program in English at Harvard University, he is currently an ...more

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	Voyager 3.99 avg rating — 251 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Facts for Visitors by Srikanth Reddy, Robert Hass (Series Editor), Brenda Hillman (Series Editor) 4.22 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Underworld Lit 4.14 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poetry Magazine April 2022 3.64 avg rating — 45 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Readings in World Literature 4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conversities by Srikanth Reddy, Dan Beachy-Quick 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unsignificant 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	5 Steps to Beat Depression: Depression by Srikanth Reddy, Neha Kumari (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Poetry to Verse Essays on the Making of Modern Poetry 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Then the pulse.
Then a pause.
Then twilight in a box.
Dusk underfoot.
Then generations.

—

Then the same war by a different name.
Wine splashing in the bucket.
The erection, the era.
Then exit Reason.
Then sadness without reason.
Then the removal of the ceiling by hand.

—

Then pages & pages of numbers.
Then the page with the faint green stain.
Then the page on which Prince Theodore, gravely wounded,
is thrown onto a wagon.
Then the page on which Masha weds somebody else.
Then the page that turns to the story of somebody else.
Then the page scribbled in dactyls.
Then the page which begins Exit Angel.
Then the page wrapped around a dead fish.
Then the page where the serfs reach the ocean.
Then a nap.
Then the peg.
Then the page with the curious helmet.
Then the page on which millet is ground.
Then the death of Ursula.
Then the stone page they raised over her head.
Then the page made of grass which goes on.

—

Exit Beauty.

—

Then the page someone folded to mark her place.
Then the page on which nothing happens.
The page after this page.

Then the transcript.
Knocking within.

Interpretation, then harvest.

—

Exit Want.
Then a love story.

Then a trip to the ruins.
Then & only then the violet agenda.

Then hope without reason.
Then the construction of an underground passage between us.

Srikanth Reddy, "Burial Practice" from Facts for Visitors. Copyright © 2004 by the Regents of the University of California. Reprinted by permission of The University of California Press.
Source: Facts for Visitors (University of California Press, 2004)”
― Srikanth Reddy, Facts for Visitors

tags: beauty, bereavement, grief, humanity, loss, poem, poet, poetry, redemption, wisdom

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“Each week, I plan an assignment. Students, interrogate form down to the last comma. Students, broadcast the crimes of history.”
― Srikanth Reddy, Voyager

tags: history, poetics, poetry

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“I tried to cut through
all our hurried centuries,
lost in a forest within.

Men
broke by war
emerged in frightful shape—

more than human
but also less,
they were quite aware,

the sovereign dead,
that time is like a window
opening up the sad patterns of never.

As one they advanced—
Lloyd George
Georges Clemenceau

Adolph Hitler
—through history.
But the past does not follow

so straightforward a path
said I
(predictably in Italian),

and, burning
under their masters,
they proclaimed

the world a pendulum.
It is possible,
but this gives rise

to the often-heard complaint
that repetition is unavoidable.
Still time issues into today,

little fathers.
The years, I believe,
can be shaped with one’s hands.

The world
—its obscure moving fields,
Persian tragedies,

and countries in peace—
I had to inform
that council of the lost,

remains an instrument,
a valve instrument,
which, when waning,

is perfectly clear in the pit
—and, being given
to such classical concepts

as freedom and necessity,
laboriously continued
in the traditional way—

I believe ~~I believe.~~”
― Srikanth Reddy, Voyager

tags: belief, faith, history, humanity, poem, poetry

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