2014年普利策詩歌獎得主維杰·瑟沙德里是一位擅于處理聲音的詩人。面對一個悠久豐富的英詩傳統,他的詩歌以跨界的文體風格、對人稱的實驗性探索、突降式的行文結構獨樹一幟。他在詩作中頻頻化身他人,通過形形色色的人物聲音講述當代城市生活故事、反映時代問題。相較惠特曼集大成者的自我獨立宣言,瑟沙德里用自己的方式把自我歸還給了當代美國蕓蕓眾生,并傾聽他們的聲音,聽他們講述普遍"意識"的不同人生故事。他相信書寫普遍人性意識的詩歌最終能夠帶領自我走出身份的困擾、環境的桎梏和歷史的夢魘。

Vijay Seshadri,winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Poetry Prize,defines himself as a poet who does voices.Alongside a profound tradition of English poetry,his poems feature a trans-genre prosaic style,an experimental employment of poetic voices,and a typically Seshadrian structural turn that conveys meaning.The richness of his poems lies in his ability to imaginatively transgress what others consider boundaries of identity.Believing that poetry can free the disassociated self from the borders of places and the nightmare of history,Seshadri creates a variety of poetic identities and tells a kaleidoscopic collection of contemporary urban stories in voices that lead to an omnipresent human consciousness.