{"product_id":"betweenness-9781936097609","title":"Betweenness","description":"\u003cb\u003eVarun Ravindran's full-length debut, \u003ci\u003eBetweenness, \u003c\/i\u003e is poetic polyphony and counterpoint.\u003c\/b\u003e Formally inventive, at times layering multiple voices, and at other points, implementing sheet music as poetic form, \u003cb\u003eRavindran explores spirituality; his experience as an immigrant existing in the peripheries of both Indian and American culture, but part of neither; and of history, as he speaks on his late father and grandafther\u003c\/b\u003e, both of whom struggled with alcoholism until their deaths. Accumulating into chords and intervals, these poems unite in a song of self that contains multitudes of voice and of form. Piece-by-piece they are hyaline and complex, while the affect of the whole crescendoes into an authentic and important new voice in American poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Baobab Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/09\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936097609\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96","brand":"Varun Ravindran","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51334119391413,"sku":"9781936097609","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_95733f19-5e0d-4430-b815-9de099ae39d6.jpg?v=1752583791","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/betweenness-9781936097609","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}