Daniel Khalastchi
The Story of Your Obstinate Survival
The Story of Your Obstinate Survival
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The Story of Your Obstinate Survival is a bold and innovative book that explores how we can go on in the face of turmoil. It combines the political and personal, public and private, pleasure and pain, to examine calamities and the persistence required to endure. The author's exceptional capacity for detail and specificity fills the world to the point of breaking, but never beyond, insisting on survival despite it all.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 112 pages
Publication date: 31 March 2024
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
In his captivating book, "The Story of Your Obstinate Survival," Daniel Khalastchi takes readers on a daring journey through a landscape of burning fires, unmarked boxes, and images of senators in airplane bathrooms. This exhilarating and innovative work challenges genre conventions and upends narrative norms with its dazzling wordplay and captivating imagery.
The poems in this collection inhabit a realm that straddles the line between dreams and reality, seamlessly merging the political and personal, the public and private, the pleasures and pains. Through their exploration of calamities and the unwavering determination to endure, they shed light on the human condition. Khalastchi's exceptional capacity for detail and specificity brings this world to life, filling it to the brim without overwhelming it.
In this world, the circus serves as a refuge, a legislative party bus of palliative care. Standing by the advent tent are penitential dentures, reminiscent of entire choking towns. Backed down and bound, the carnival carnivorous glows, a midway ways away alit and stilted by the night.
These poems offer a reflection on the resilience of the human spirit in the face of adversity. They remind us that even in the darkest of times, there is a glimmer of hope and a reason to keep going. "The Story of Your Obstinate Survival" is a testament to the power of words and the ability of art to inspire and uplift. It is a must-read for anyone seeking a fresh perspective on the human experience and the enduring spirit of survival.
Weight: 156g
Dimension: 190 x 141 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780299348045
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