Jay Deshpande

Jay Deshpande is the author of Love the Stranger and The Rest of the Body (both from YesYes Books). His essays and criticism have been featured in Slate, The New Republic, Boston Review, and elsewhere. He is a 2018-2020 Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford.

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Hanif Abdurraqib and the Performance of Grief

By Jay Deshpande February 10, 2020

On the particular braiding of grief and nostalgia that animates the poet-slash-critic's work.