Reading and re-reading Ravi Shankar’s new collection was exhilarating. It’s an extraordinary exploration of the possibilities of collaboration.
Peter Orner, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Shankar collaborates with both painters and with other contemporary poets by finding the zone and bringing 'new forms of elasticity into being.'
Rae Armantrout, Pulitzer Prize winner
Ravi Shankar’s Seamless Matter, when read as a whole, becomes nothing less than a praise song of our shared physicality, and of existence known, as it must be, under the scepter of time.
Jane Hirshfield, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets
Ravi Shankar is a postmodern flâneur. He wanders the world’s real and fictional gridded cities (or perhaps his astral body swoops high above them) and reports back.
Amy Gerstler, National Book Critics Circle Award winner
Ravi Shankar knows how to play his chosen instrument, poetry, better than anyone, and he allows the instrument to play its soloist too.
John Tranter, author of Urban Myths, Starlight, and Heart Starter.
Ravi Shankar’s poems are the verbal artifacts of a singular many-sided and distinguished consciousness.
Vijay Seshadri, Pulitizer Prize Winner
Ravi Shankar is now, truly, one of America’s finest younger poets.
Dick Allen, Connecticut Poet Laureate