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Nike of Samothrace

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By Mark Irwin, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Karen Skolfield, Vijay Seshadri
| Poem-a-Day
A shark swims into the bay, swirls, and then rises with the ugly grin of millennia. A match flame to a cigar, years later a campfire, and long after a house on fire. Love—to forget language and act on instinct, its indestructible form. —Something written on a piece of paper after an astonishing event. That paper found a long time later. she said, licking a grape Popsicle in July. , he said right after. It seemed as though she had leapt toward her own cremation.
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“That Little Click in the Mind”: Vijay Seshadri Reflects on his Tenure as the Review’s Poetry Editor

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By Vijay Seshadri
| The Paris Review Verified
By Vijay Seshadri September 26, 2022 A Letter from the Editor This fall marks a transition on our editorial team, as Vijay Seshadri is bidding the Review farewell—at least as our poetry editor, a role he has occupied since 2019. He will be greatly missed.
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“To the Reader”

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By Vijay Seshadri
| Literary Hub Verified
I’m writing this so I can tell you that what you’re thinking about me is exactly what I’m thinking about you. What you’re reading is exactly what you’re writing, by the light of a taper, deep inside yourself, at your walnut secretary. These words are saying what those words say, and these and those are those and these, mine and yours, and have no meaning, only form. Talk about being one with others! We correspond 1 to 1, and there is a grandeur in this. You’ll understand that someday.
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