The Story of Your Obstinate Survival - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Daniel KhalastchiSeries:Wisconsin PoetryPublish date:2024-03-12Pages:138
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299348045ISBN-10:299348040UPC:9780299348045Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.58 x 6.61 x 0.32 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SC9R777R2D
Daniel Khalastchi boldly strides across a landscape of smoldering fires, unmarked boxes, and pictures of senators in airplane bathrooms. Exhilarating and innovative, The Story of Your Obstinate Survival collapses genre and upends narrative convention with dazzling wordplay and thrilling imagery. Inhabiting a world trapped somewhere between dreams and reality, these poems fuse the political and personal, public and private, pleasing and piquant, to examine both calamities and the dogged persistence required to endure. On display throughout is Khalastchi's exceptional capacity for detail and specificity, filling up this world to the point of breaking but never beyond, insisting on survival despite it all.
Crowds around the circus serve as means of an escape,
a legislative party bus of palliative care. There standing
by the advent tent are penitential dentures, striking in
their likeness to entire choking towns. Backed down
and bound the carnival carnivorous is glowing, a
midway ways away alit and stilted by the night.
--Excerpt from "Trying to I Can't Hit Anything Yet the Bodies Pile Up"
Crowds around the circus serve as means of an escape,
a legislative party bus of palliative care. There standing
by the advent tent are penitential dentures, striking in
their likeness to entire choking towns. Backed down
and bound the carnival carnivorous is glowing, a
midway ways away alit and stilted by the night.
--Excerpt from "Trying to I Can't Hit Anything Yet the Bodies Pile Up"
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Wisconsin PressISBN-13:9780299348045ISBN-10:299348040UPC:9780299348045Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.58 x 6.61 x 0.32 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SC9R777R2D
Daniel Khalastchi is an Iraqi Jewish American, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a former fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He is the author of three previous books of poetry--Manoleria, Tradition, and American Parables--and lives in Iowa City, where he directs the University of Iowa's Magid Center for Writing.
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
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