Betweenness - Softcover

Ravindran, Varun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936097605 ISBN 13: 9781936097609

Verlag: Baobab Press, 2025

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Varun Ravindran's full-length debut,Betweenness, is poetic polyphony and counterpoint. Formally inventive, at times layering multiple voices, and at other points, implementing sheet music as poetic form, Ravindran explores spirituality; his experience as an immigrant existing in the peripheries of both Indian and American culture, but part of neither; and of history, as he speaks on his late father and grandafther, both of whom struggled with alcoholism until their deaths. Accumulating into chords and intervals, these poems unite in a song of self that contains multitudes of voice and of form. Piece-by-piece they are hyaline and complex, while the affect of the whole crescendoes into an authentic and important new voice in American poetry. 

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Varun Ravindran was born in Chennai, India, and graduated from Duquesne University. His work has appeared in various literary journals like The Kenyon Review Online, The Adroit Journal, West Branch, Notre Dame Review, FOLIO, Pleiades, Denver Quarterly, and mercury firs, among others. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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The Zodiac of Midges

Palace of waters,

of green dark silence,

the dark green profound 

sired of water

rubbing water

place of water

stone, mountains,

place of firs, sheer

green as dusk, place

of dusk. Place of dusk

like rain. Place of rain.

Place of rain

like consciousness

abyss, plenum

sea-palace

place of seas

valleys shine-creased, 

lupin-creased

porousness

a pouring,

a pouringplace

into which sound — 

and me — 

into all of it — 

teeth strung along neat rains

tossed in the breast-

soft dark all night — 

the sounds of water — 

wet and bit the black rocks

Mt. Hood

Hood River

Grace Su’s China Gorge

“41 years in the same place”

stranded humpbacks

the water, the soil, the soil,

soil beneath, beneath all of it

aged, ageless, siletzia 

thrusting out here, there

into the dewy light,

adopted, named Crescent

and Roseburg — 

wet, dark, moss-bit

ancient, ancestral, dark

rock, wet-dark stone,

high up the family tree,

dark rose blossoming

dark, darkly, in dark — 

to be — 

to be poured — 

into all this — 

beinghoods — 

a beingness — 

discovered?

Built? If built, 

I always touch 

the things I know, 

if discovered

I know only 

the things I touch — 

which is it — 

what is it — 

touches now,

now the hem

of this vapory

midday matter

the “firm water,

cold flame,”

the enmackarelled Pacific — 

 — being

being poured 

dumb, dumb,

into dark — 

dark silence

beneath the green

places of — 

palace of — 

Columbiana! — 

raining, the rain

(wet dark)

place of — rain — 

ceaseless — still — 

dark, dark

waterfalls — 

tumult — of waters — but — 

“but how shall I . . .

make me a room . . .

reach me . . .”

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Baobab Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1936097605
• ISBN 13: 9781936097609
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96
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