The Thomas Salto - Paperback
by Timmy Straw
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Fonograf EditionsISBN-13:9780578358543ISBN-10:578358549UPC:9780578358543Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Political & Protest, WarSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC697ZW3R2
The Thomas Salto takes its name from a difficult and dangerous move in gymnastics, a leaping triple flip popularized during the last years of the Cold War. Both in its Reagan-grained historicity, and in the human body that bears the leap's flight and risk, the Thomas salto is a kinetic figure for these poems' action in time and space. They shadow the AIDS epidemic, the war on drugs, the US proxy wars in Central America, Afghanistan, and the Middle East, the Soviet collapse--not as history but as the camouflage-pattern of "then" and "to come" which form the flickering and very real habitus of the present.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Fonograf EditionsISBN-13:9780578358543ISBN-10:578358549UPC:9780578358543Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Political & Protest, WarSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SC697ZW3R2
Timmy Straw's poems, essays, and translations appear in Yale Review, Jacket2, Paris Review, Annulet, Chicago Review, and elsewhere, and their work has been supported by a Fulbright research fellowship to Moscow, an Iowa Arts Fellowship, and a Postgraduate Visiting Writer Fellowship at the University of Iowa. A graduate student in Comp Lit at Penn, they are also working on translations of the contemporary Russian poet Grigori Dashevsky.
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