Description
Book SynopsisDaniel Khalastchi's third collection provides an uncompromising exploration into the political and societal disturbances facing America today. Electioneering, lack of affordable health care, the increase in mass shootings, and the continued fight for equal rights are juxtaposed against an unlikely sense of hope and optimism.
Table of Contents
- Party to a Crime
- American Parable
- Laid Land
- Border Strikes Amid Talks of Withdrawal
- Visiting Hours
- Juridical Bench Operation
- Trigger Warning
- First Generation: Your Escape
- Audience Holding Index
- Our Bed and Its Position
- American Parable
- Two-State Solution
- Unsuccessful Test Launch During Easter Parade
- I Do Not Have the Market Cornered on Feeling Angry and Misused
- Trigger Warning
- Threat of War in Spring
- Last Poem Before Marriage
- When on the Scale of Human Suffering
- Returning Home from Having Failed
- Land Resettlement Contract
- Trigger Warning
- Deviation on Returns
- American Parable
- Congenital Persuasion Spectacle
- First Generation: Your War
- This Indigenous Tsuris
- Trigger Warning
- With Me You Are Inviting Trouble
- American Parable
- Our Shared Relevant Irrelevance or A Brief History of Love
- Secessional Impulse
- American Parable
- Affordable Care
- Trigger Warning
- You Ridiculous People
- An Apt Rapture
- Institutional Concern
- The Social Purpose
- Storm Drives Us Away
- The Violence of Missing You
- Trigger Warning
- First Generation: Our Escape
- Sad Festival of Mild Disruption
- Trigger Warning
- American Parable
- Peptic Babylonian Ulcer
- What I Have to Offer
- First Poem After Marriage
- Notes and Acknowledgments
