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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814018703321

Autore

Reddy Srikanth <1973->

Titolo

Voyager [[electronic resource] /] / Srikanth Reddy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-27752-2

9786613277527

0-520-94826-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (143 p.)

Collana

New California poetry ; ; 31

Disciplina

811/.6

Soggetti

American poetry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Book One -- Book Two -- Book Three -- Epilogues -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

Srikanth Reddy's second book of poetry probes this world's cosmological relation to the plurality of all possible worlds. Drawing its name from the spacecraft currently departing our solar system on an embassy to the beyond, Voyager unfolds as three books within a book and culminates in a chilling Dantean allegory of leadership and its failure in the cause of humanity. At the heart of this volume lies the historical figure of Kurt Waldheim-Secretary-General of the U.N. from 1972-81 and former intelligence officer in Hitler's Wehrmacht-who once served as a spokesman for humanity while remaining silent about his role in the collective atrocities of our era. Resurrecting this complex figure, Reddy's universal voyager explores the garden of forking paths hidden within every totalizing dream of identity.