All You Who Sleep Tonight
by Vikram Seth
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Vikram Seth's novel in verse,The Golden Gate, was hailed by Gore Vidal as "the Great California Novel" and by the New Republic as "a tour de force of the transcendence of the mere tour de force." Now he brings his romance with the English language, his effortless access to the deepest reservoirs of feeling, and his ability to light up the plain surfaces of everyday life to this stunning collection of poems. InAll You Who Sleep TonightSeth delves into the varieties of love -- love lost, show more remembered, and deferred. He evokes the unspeakable ironies of Auschwitz and the light-blasted streets of Hiroshima. He conducts the reader through Lion Grove in Suzhou, China, and across the Golden Gate Bridge on its fiftieth anniversary. Throughout, he displays the lyricism and attentiveness that distinguish the best poets of every era. From the Trade Paperback edition. show lessTags
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- All You Who Sleep Tonight
- Dedication
- For Shantum and Aradhana
- First words
- After a long and wretched flight
That stretched from daylight into night, - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Know that you aren't alone.
The whole world shares your tears,
Some for two nights or one,
And some for all their years.
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