{"product_id":"facts-for-visitors-12-poems-9780520240445","title":"Facts for Visitors, 12: Poems","description":"Speaking in the wake of empire, of terrestrial love and of the collapse of traditional literary forms, the protagonist of this collection of poetry reconstructs a world from the language of encyclopedias, instruction manuals, and the literary legacies of Wallace Stevens, W. G. Sebald, and Joseph Conrad. The prefatory lyric, Burial Practice, imagines the posthumous narrative of then's that follows an individual's extinction; in the poem Aria, a stagehand steps onto the floorboards to wax poetic after the curtain has dropped on an opera; and the extended sequence of Circle poems obliquely revisits Dante's ethical landscape of the afterlife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany of these poems were written while Srikanth Reddy worked for a rural literacy program in the south of India, a fact reflected in the imagined postcolonial world of lyrics such as Monsoon Eclogue and Thieves' Market. Yet the collection moves beyond the identity politics and ressentiment of postcolonial and Asian-American writings by addressing the fugitive dreams of shared experience in poems such as Fundamentals of Esperanto. Mobilizing traditional literary forms such as terza rima and the villanelle while simultaneously exploring the poetics of prose and other formless modes, \u003ci\u003eFacts for Visitors\u003c\/i\u003e re-negotiates the impasse between traditional and experimental approaches to writing in contemporary American poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Srikanth Reddy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/19\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 62\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.04w x 0.28d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520240445\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2004 pg. 1342\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/23\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSrikanth Reddy's\u003c\/b\u003e poems have appeared in various journals, including \u003ci\u003eAPR, Grand Street, Fence, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePloughshares, \u003c\/i\u003e and his critical writing has been featured in publications such as \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic, The Chicago Tribune, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature.\u003c\/i\u003e He has held fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Whiting Foundation (in the Humanities) and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and doctoral candidate at Harvard University, Reddy is currently the William Vaughan Moody Writer-in-Residence at the University of Chicago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40012014026867,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_e6121fb1-bdd4-4157-8c8e-13411a582599.jpg?v=1650491568","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/facts-for-visitors-12-poems-9780520240445","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}