3 Sections

Vijay Seshadri

HarperCollins India

88 pages, RS 299

3 Sections, Seshadri’s third collection of poems, recently won the 2014 Pulitzer prize. In it, Seshadri, a regular contributor to the New Yorker, confronts the perplexing divisions of contemporary life; for example, in ‘This Morning,’ he writes: “First I had three/ apocalyptic visions, each more terrible than the last./ The graves open, and the sea rises to kill us all./ Then the doorbell rang, and I went downstairs and signed for two packages …”