"The poems in Deepening Groove proceed in elegant triplets that
drift effortlessly down the page on waves of sound, serenely
self-confident. The subjects are animals, trees, flowers, fish, the
weather, and the human condition, all mixed up in a heady stew that
simmers quietly one minute, and shimmers brightly the next. This is
a book of savvy, delicious surprises." -Wyn Cooper "In Deepening
Groove, Ravi Shankar's poems are small wonders of defining, seeing,
and sound. He is a poet fascinated with transformations and here
are shiftings of dust and sand, loon calls, flutterings of insects,
changing tides and splendid cascades- always information-driven,
often rapturous with Hopkins-like intensities, imperatives, and
trochaic stresses. What I'm most taken by is how the poems both see
and feel simultaneously: In "Dark," "Darkness in New England has a
flavor close / to anise, a texture plush as peat moss." In "Bats,"
the bats' flight is "carrying away pieces of us, / a maelstrom too
faint to see, turning to ellipsis...." In virtually all these
poems, to quote words from "Willard Pond," there is "a sense //
that the distance between the alternate / universes humans" and
other creatures on Earth] "inhabit is smaller / than ever imagined
and more astonishing." And although the poems give special
pleasures on first encounters, they contain-as in "The
Oyster"-"secrets that require / a knife to pry open and vinegar to
serve." Deepening Groove shows Ravi Shankar is truly, now, one of
America's finest younger poets." -Dick Allen Ravi Shankar is
Executive Director of Drunken Boat and Co-Director of the Creative
Writing Program at Central Connecticut State University. His first
full length book was Instrumentality (Word Press, 2004). Along with
Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, he edited Language for a New
Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East &
Beyond (W.W. Norton & Co.). He has appeared in the New York
Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education, and on the BBC and
NPR. He teaches in Fairfield University's MFA Program and in the
first international MFA Program at City University of Hong Kong.
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