All You Who Sleep Tonight: Poems
A Poetry, Asian Literature, Indian Literature book. The more I read Vikram Seth's works, the more I fall in love with his writing. To put it...
"Certainly not since Byron has anyone been more elegantly and literally amusing in verse." -- Philadelphia DailyNewsVikram Seth's novel in verse, The Golden Gate, was hailed by Gore Vidal as "the Great California Novel" and by the New Republic as "a tour de force of the transcendence of the mere tour de force." Now he brings his romance with the English language, his effortless access to the deepest reservoirs of feeling, and his ability to light up the plain surfaces of everyday life to this stunning collection of poems.In All You Who Sleep Tonight Seth delves into the varieties of love -- love lost, remembered, and deferred. He evokes the unspeakable ironies of Auschwitz and the light-blasted streets of Hiroshima. He conducts the reader through Lion Grove in Suzhou, China, and across the Golden Gate...
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- Pages: 61 pages
- ISBN: 9780679730255 / 679730257
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The best book of poetry I bought for a very long time.. After a long and wretched flightThat stretched from daylight into night,Where babies wept and tempers shatteredAnd the plane lurched and whiskey splatteredOver my plastic food, I cameTo claim my bags from Baggage ClaimAround, the carousel went aroundThe anxious travelers sought and foundTheir bags, intact or gently battered,But to my... The more I read Vikram Seth's works, the more I fall in love with his writing. To put it simply, his poems are beautiful. He has a wonderful way with writing verses, and an ability of evoking an emotional response even when the topic of some of his poems might seem too simple. The two poems that particularly stood out for me were, the...
