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Srikanth Reddy
Srikanth Reddy is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago and the author of a previous collection of poetry, Facts for Visitors.
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Voyager - Srikanth Reddy
SRIKANTH REDDY
Voyager
University of California Press Berkeley Los Angeles London
This project is supported in part by an award
from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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University of California Press
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© 2011 by The Regents of the University of California
For acknowledgments of previous publication, see page 129.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Reddy, Srikanth, 1973—.
Voyager / Srikanth Reddy.
p. cm.—(New California poetry ; 31)
ISBN 978-0-520-26885-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Waldheim, Kurt—Poetry. I. Title.
PS3618.E427V69 2011
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Manufactured in the United States of America
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For my father
Morti li morti e i vivi parean vivi
PURGATORIO 12.67
Contents
Book One
Book Two
Book Three
Epilogues
Acknowledgments
BOOK ONE
The world is the world.
To deny it is to break with reason.
Nevertheless it would be reasonable to question the affair.
The speaker studies the world to determine the extent of his troubles.
He studies the night overhead.
He says therefore.
He says venerable art.
To believe in the world, a person has to quiet thinking.
The dead do not cease in the grave.
The world is water falling on a stone.
Some serve the state.
Some an interminable kingdom.
In the end he would have no objection to the study of nations.
Nations occur.
For a time, Finland.
Likewise, Namibia.
The Namibian people journey through the story of Namibia.
As a footnote, the Soviet Union is an interesting case.
He also will one day collapse.
A world is a world is a world.
Even so the world has to go on.
To complain about love in front of the famous Chagall window does not make a difference.
He shall be placed in the first circle.
The Chinese province of Sichuan continues to change form.
Subject the globe to assembly.
Mark in the empire thus.
[Figure 1].
In his mind he views a dark glass sea.
Before diving in he talks of dialectical space.
Jerusalem. Jerusalem indeed.
Is is.
There is no distinction between ideology and image.
One.
He records his name on a gold medallion.
Two.
The philosopher must say is.
The world is legion.
The self is a suffering form.
Is is.
Waves rise and fall, but the sea remains.
Open the box.
No.
The box is a brief history of post-war Europe.
Opening it would be against the interests of the authorities.
They could bring influence to