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… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization of the self that you don't have to engage in in the essay. In fact, the… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude. — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
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.… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
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. — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
Language itself is a mask. It's the first mask in the series of invented selves - they've come right out of language. The way… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
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… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
These new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild. — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
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… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
“Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
We live in a trans period. Contemporary issues of sexuality, for example - the exciting aspects of them - have to do with transgenderedness.… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
