"In this altogether brilliant collection, the various but carefully
sequenced (and deeply consequential) poems unfold in a world
undergoing eclipse. It is a transient, unsettling, and fascinating
phenomenon, the casting of shadows by shadows (of experience,
literature, language, the natural sun) traveling across the
totality of the known world: here. The process does not produce
negation. It is, on the contrary, an odd plus. And the darkness is
never complete; it is surprised into perceptibility by sources of
counter-illumination, among them wit, intelligence, and, above all
(as underlying all), love."--Lyn Hejinian
"Reddy's book is new, utterly confident, clear, true to itself.
It is about any world in which any one of us in love can learn
something about what has happened to us--a world utterly and deeply
known: ecstatic and forlorn. This is also a confident guide to our
best life and to the language of that unknown place in which we
bring to mind for the first time what we think and feel. At the
end, Reddy's book leaves us with a deeper understanding of the
wisdom of all good guides and poets: 'Where one goes, one goes
alone.'"--Allen Grossman, Mellon Professor in the Humanities, Johns
Hopkins University and author of "Sweet Youth
"The present is a word for only those words which I am now
saying" writes Reddy in this profoundly moving first collection.
And, indeed, a search for the nature of the 'present' continuously
animates this stunning, anguished yet level-headed attempt to
reconstruct a history of our kind as if from some as-yet unknown
vantage point. Striving for a complex objectivity, the book
explodes prior notions of orientation--geographic, historical,
cultural--andrecovers from the debris a profoundly trustworthy
reorientation, political as well as emotional. Reddy speaks to us
fully self-conscious and, strangely, fully innocent. It is a
mesmerizing voice."--Jorie Graham
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