<B>The long-awaited third poetry book by Vijay Seshadri, “one of the most respected poets working in America today” (<I>Time Out New York</I>)</B><BR><BR><P>First I had three<BR>apocalyptic visions, each more terrible than the last.<BR>The graves open, and the sea rises to kill us all.<BR>Then the doorbell rang, and I went downstairs and signed for two packages—<BR> —from “This Morning”<BR><BR>Vijay Seshadri’s new poetry is assured and expert, his line as canny as ever. In an array of poetic forms from the rhyming lyric to the philosophical meditation to the prose essay, <I>3 Sections</I> confronts perplexing divisions of contemporary life—a wayward history, an indeterminate future, and a present condition of wanting to outthink time. This is an extraordinary book, witty and vivacious, by one of America’s best poets.