Voyager by Srikanth Reddy (English) Paperback Book

Description: Voyager by Srikanth Reddy 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Srikanth Reddys second book of poetry probes this worlds 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 Hitlers Wehrmacht-who once served as a spokesman for humanity while remaining silent about his role in the collective atrocities of our era. Resurrecting this complex figure, Reddys universal voyager explores the garden of forking paths hidden within every totalizing dream of identity. Flap "Srikanth Reddys Voyager unwinds at a hypnotic pace, as inexorable as a set of philosophic propositions, yet also strangely porous, like poetry. Gradually we come to understand words spoken by Escher in the poem, formal objectivity / might be / a personal matter, but by then its too late: were hooked. Its is a work unlike any other, deeply moving, disturbing, and ultimately fulfilling."--John Ashbery "In erasing--three times, and in an astonishing variety of poetic styles and verse forms-- In the Eye of the Storm , the memoir of Kurt Waldheim, the noted Secretary-General of the UN who, after a decade in office was exposed as having been a Nazi SS officer, Srikanth Reddy has produced one of the great political poems of our time. Using, abusing, recycling, and reformatting Waldheims own words, Voyager does what no "original" history poem could do: it exposes Waldheims Disease as much more than one individuals particular mendacity. Read it and weep--but also marvel at Reddys bravura performance!"--Marjorie Perloff, author of The Vienna Paradox "Our greatest task (all imaginative) is to rid ourselves of the disastrous twentieth century by finding one single gift we can salvage from it. It is the task that Reddy sets himself in this strange, beautiful meditation on Voyager 2, and World War 2. The secret hope is hidden as if in a cloud of stars."--Fanny Howe, author of The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation Author Biography Srikanth Reddy is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago and the author of a previous collection of poetry, Facts for Visitors. Table of Contents Book One Book Two Book Three Epilogues Acknowledgments Review "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 Reddys erasures and the negative capabilities of his excavated text we feel, even if we cannot see, whats missing, whats gone-into outer space, into self-denial, into the ironies of history and of the role between the wielders of pens and of swords. We find ourselves-culpable, impressionable, alive-in the human space he has created." Chronicle Of Higher Education "Srikanth Reddys much-anticipated second volume ... assumes a planetary perspective on the 20th century." Publishers Weekly "Reddy has fashioned an arresting, very personal voice by committing himself to using only words and phrases that appeared in-wait for it-Kurt Waldheims memoirs... Reddy is so gifted that the poems, despite their weighty origins, soar." -- Dan Chiasson New Yorker "Voyager is a nuanced and haunting book of geopolitical, literary, moral, and spiritual inquiry." WBEZ-FM "Erasurists find their imaginative space by reading creatively. One of the genres most creative readers in Srikanth Reddy. Not only is his erasure, the book Voyager, conceptually captivating, but the writing is amazing. Let me repeat that: the writing is amazing." -- Jeannie Vanasco The Believer Magazine "An ambitious, richly imaginative work that poses vital questions about truth, authorship and narrative possibility in contemporary literature." -- Mia Ayumi Malhotra The International Examiner Review Quote "Voyager is a nuanced and haunting book of geopolitical, literary, moral, and spiritual inquiry."-- Wbez-Fm Details ISBN0520268857 Author Srikanth Reddy Series New California Poetry Year 2011 ISBN-10 0520268857 ISBN-13 9780520268852 Format Paperback Imprint University of California Press Country of Publication United States DEWEY 811.6 Birth 1973 Short Title VOYAGER Language English Media Book Pages 144 Series Number 31 Publisher University of California Press Place of Publication Berkerley Affiliation University of Chicago UK Release Date 2011-02-07 Publication Date 2011-02-07 AU Release Date 2011-02-07 NZ Release Date 2011-02-07 US Release Date 2011-02-07 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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