Hesitancies by Sanjeev Sethi — A Poetic Cartography of Inner Echoes

In Hesitancies, his fifth collection, Sanjeev Sethi masterfully reaffirms his place as a poet of quiet precision and layered perception. With a voice both assured and intimate, Sethi widens the lens of introspection, deftly mapping the emotional cartography of a life lived with attention, wit, and wonder.

These are poems that resist grandstanding, yet resonate with quiet profundity. They whisper rather than proclaim, inviting the reader into the folds of subtle ironies, hesitant truths, and nuanced epiphanies. Each verse is a calibrated balance of restraint and revelation, where meaning flickers at the edges of metaphor, and memory meets moment.

Sethi’s strength lies in his ability to distill the complexity of emotion into crystalline lines, suturing emotional lesions with a language that is inventive, irenic, and deeply human. Hesitancies doesn’t demand attention—it earns it, through its cadence, candor, and understated grace. This is poetry that lingers like a sigh you almost didn’t notice, but one that changes the temperature of the room.