The Thomas Salto by Straw, Timmy

The Thomas Salto (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780578358543)

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The Thomas Salto by Straw, Timmy

The Thomas Salto

$16.95
The Thomas Salto by Straw, Timmy

The Thomas Salto

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Timmy Straw
ISBN-10: 0578358549
ISBN-13: 9780578358543
Publisher: Fonograf Editions
Language: English
Published: 10/10/2023
Pages: 105
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.20w x 0.60d
By Timmy Straw
By Timmy Straw
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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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