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Voyager
Srikanth Reddy
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Description for Voyager
Paperback. Drawing its name from the spacecraft departing our solar system on an embassy to the beyond, this title culminates in a chilling Dantean allegory of leadership and its failure in the cause of humanity. Series: New California Poetry. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 31.
Srikanth Reddy's second book of poetry probes this world's cosmological relation to the plurality of all possible worlds. Drawing its name from the spacecraft currently departing our solar system on an embassy to the beyond, "Voyager" unfolds as three books within a book and culminates in a chilling Dantean allegory of leadership and its failure in the cause of humanity. At the heart of this volume lies the historical figure of Kurt Waldheim - Secretary-General of the U.N. from 1972-81 and former intelligence officer in Hitler's Wehrmacht - who once served as a spokesman for humanity while remaining silent about ... Read more
Srikanth Reddy's second book of poetry probes this world's cosmological relation to the plurality of all possible worlds. Drawing its name from the spacecraft currently departing our solar system on an embassy to the beyond, "Voyager" unfolds as three books within a book and culminates in a chilling Dantean allegory of leadership and its failure in the cause of humanity. At the heart of this volume lies the historical figure of Kurt Waldheim - Secretary-General of the U.N. from 1972-81 and former intelligence officer in Hitler's Wehrmacht - who once served as a spokesman for humanity while remaining silent about ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Series
New California Poetry
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520268852
SKU
V9780520268852
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About Srikanth Reddy
Srikanth Reddy is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago and the author of a previous collection of poetry, Facts for Visitors.
Reviews for Voyager
"These recastings form a highly ambitious book of political poetry that speaks hauntingly of our world." Publishers Weekly "The paradoxical lives of historical figures have long inspired poets, a tradition Reddy embraces and transforms in his audacious, deeply interrogative second collection... Nuanced yet piercing." Booklist "Through Reddy's 'erasures' and the negative capabilities of his excavated text we feel, even if ... Read more