Bangalore-born Vijay Seshadri has won the prestigious Pulitzer prize for poetry, announced on Monday. It its citation, the Pulitzer committee described his book 3 Sections as "a compelling collection of poems that examine human consciousness, from birth to dementia, in a voice that is by turns witty and grave, compassionate and remorseless".
Seshadri, who teaches poetry and nonfiction writing at New York's Sarah Lawrence College, was born in India in 1954 but moved to the US at the age of five. His father taught chemistry at Ohio State University.
His collections of poems include James Laughlin Award winner The Long Meadow (Graywolf Press, 2004) and Wild Kingdom (1996). Seshadri's poems, essays and reviews have appeared in a wide range of publications, including the American Scholar, the Nation, the New Yorker, the Paris Review and the Times Book Review.
In this video, he reads a poem called A Fable, based on the Greek Aesop's Fables, which, as he notes, were derived from the stories of the Panchatantra.
Seshadri, who teaches poetry and nonfiction writing at New York's Sarah Lawrence College, was born in India in 1954 but moved to the US at the age of five. His father taught chemistry at Ohio State University.
His collections of poems include James Laughlin Award winner The Long Meadow (Graywolf Press, 2004) and Wild Kingdom (1996). Seshadri's poems, essays and reviews have appeared in a wide range of publications, including the American Scholar, the Nation, the New Yorker, the Paris Review and the Times Book Review.
In this video, he reads a poem called A Fable, based on the Greek Aesop's Fables, which, as he notes, were derived from the stories of the Panchatantra.
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