Tradition
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Tradition
By (Author) Daniel Khalastchi
McSweeney's Publishing
McSweeney's Publishing
23rd June 2015
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
811.6
Physical Properties
Hardback
70
Width 147mm, Height 191mm
270g
Description
The wildly imaginative poems in Daniel Khalastchis Tradition bring to life a speaker struggling to find balance between familial pressure and personal identity, religious faith and recognition of the worlds calamities. An Iraqi Jewish American and graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, Khalastchis much-anticipated follow-up to his award-winning debut is a surreal cir de coeura darkly humorous wonderland too fantastical and fresh to be doubted.
Reviews
"These poems tickle our sly, inner appreciation for the unanticipated chaos of modern life." --The Volta Blog
Author Bio
Daniel Khalastchi is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is the author of Manoleria (2011), winner of the Tupelo Press First Book Prize, and his poems have appeared in publications such as Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, H_NGM_N, Iowa Review, jubilant, Ninth Letter, Octopus Magazine, 1913: A Journal of Forms, and Best American Experimental Writing 2014. A former fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Daniel is currently the associate director of the University of Iowa's Frank N. Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing. He lives in Iowa City and is the co-founder and managing editor of Rescue Press.
