Underworld Lit
by Srikanth Reddy
Description
Simultaneously funny and frightful, Srikanth Reddy's Underworld Lit is a multiverse quest through various cultures' realms of the dead. Couched in a literature professor's daily mishaps with family life and his sudden reckoning with mortality, this adventurous serial prose poem moves from the college classroom to the oncologist's office to the mythic underworlds of Mayan civilization, the ancient Egyptian place of judgment and rebirth, the infernal court of Qing dynasty China, and beyond—testing readers along with the way with diabolically demanding quizzes. It unsettles our sense of home as it ferries us back and forth across cultures, languages, epochs, and the shifting border between the living and the dead.
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Author Biography
Srikanth Reddy is the author of Voyager and Facts for Visitors. His poetry and criticism have appeared in Harper’s, The Guardian, the New York Times, Poetry, and numerous other venues. In fall 2015, he delivered the Bagley Wright Lectures in Poetry. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and is currently Professor of English at the University of Chicago.
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- Publisher Wave Books
- Publication Date August 2020
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781940696935
- Publication Country or regionUnited States
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2020
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