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The story of your obstinate survival / Daniel Khalastchi.
Van Pelt Library PS3611.H33 S76 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Khalastchi, Daniel, 1980- author.
- Series:
- Wisconsin poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 123 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "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 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."--Page 4 of cover.
- Contents:
- Brief experiment with exposition
- Eleven inciting incidents
- Rising action as collective myth
- Nine additional complications
- Toward a high point, or all downhill
- Resolution.
- Notes:
- National Jewish Book Awards - Poetry, Winner, 2024
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780299348045
- 0299348040
- OCLC:
- 1399165294
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