Reviews of The Long Meadow

"One of the most respected poets working in America today." —Time Out New York

"Seshadri’s second collection is gracefully contemporary—'Superman Agonistes' is the title of one poem—and effortlessly ranges from Russian Church history to Rocky and Bullwinkle." —The New Yorker

"This is a strong, almost reckless voice turning dark experience into an unrelenting sense of possibility. From the rhyming stanzas to a long prose meditation, the power of casual declamation holds sway." —Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Seshadri's ability to see where the fantastic and the realistic mingle, 'where matter becomes number and number matter,' and to draw casually convincing distinctions gives this book its understated but gently persuasive power." —The New York Times Book Review

"In The Long Meadow [Seshadri] has created a collection of poems that manages to feel both classical and contemporary, and that are unified, despite their formal diversity, by a fearless, subtle, and elastic intelligence. This dialectical iconoclasm is manifest in the intellectual range and ambition Seshadri brings to the page; his poetry speaks in the voice of an urbane conversationlist whose restless intellect impels him, somewhat to his embarrassment, beyond the well-pruned vineyards of wit and into the metaphysical brier patch. The Long Meadow is both ironic and deeply felt, delightful and profound." —American Poet

“Spare and unpretentious, the poems in The Long Meadow are also infused with convention and with tradition.” —Poetry

Read an interview with Vijay Seshadri with Alice Quinn of The New Yorker.

Read an interview with Vijay Seshadri on the online version of Poets & Writers magazine.

Listen to an interview with Vijay Seshadri on WNYC's "The Leonard Lopate Show" (May 27, 2004).

Listen to Vijay Seshadri as he responds to the attacks in Mumbai on Weekend America (12/6/09) here.