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Vijay Seshadri Biography

Vijay Seshadri (born February 13, 1954) is an American, Brooklyn, New York–based poet, essayist and literary critic.

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It's important for all writers to try to figure out what they're doing.

Figure, Figures, Important, Trying, Writers

I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.

Citizens, Emotional, Person, Responsible, World, Writing

I see myself only sporadically as a teacher and consistently as a writer. Teaching is how I pay the bills. . . and fortunately, for my students, I can intellectualize about writing, and I can talk about it well, and I like to talk about it.

Bills, Consistently, Teacher, Teaching, Writer, Writing

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.

Humiliations, Orwell, Real, Stories, Writing

Historically, there are hierarchies of purity. Certain aspects of poetry are very, very pure. The lyric poem can't be anything but the lyric poem.

Aspect, Aspects, Certain, Hierarchy, Purity

You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.

Order, Split, Splits, Survive, Think, Thinking

I could say that in the essay, as it has developed historically, success is determined by the writer's ability to express, through an individual voice, a collective experience - you are speaking individually but you are representing collectively.

Determined, Historically, Individual, Representing, Voice

Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being imposed on you that you know is not your identity.

Identity, Imposed, Know, Look, Self, Struggle

You don't think of yourself as your external representation, or even your national origin or anything like that. You don't reduce yourself to that. That's kind of unthinkable.

External, Kind, Reduce, Representation, Think Of You, Thinking

We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.

Consciousness, Subjectivity, Think, Thinking

We live in a trans period. Contemporary issues of sexuality, for example - the exciting aspects of them - have to do with transgenderedness. And there's trans-nationality. There are people like me, for example. I mean, what am I? Am I Indian? Am I American? And I'm not alone in being between things.

American, Contemporary, Issues, Mean, People

When you're an immigrant, you're at the bottom of the ladder. You might not be at the bottom of the ladder economically. Those contradictions led me to feel that the role in society I was given didn't jive with my sense of myself. I think, in fact, that is the case with most people. Everybody feels themselves to be in an original relationship to creation, and feels confined by their social role.

Facts, Led, People, Role, Think, Thinking

I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.

Book, Fifth, Fifth Grade, Library, Read, Sort