Failure and I Bury the Body (National Poetry Series)
“Sasha West offers us a book that is utterly unprecedented, visionary, disturbing, beautiful, compelling -- here we are being offered a chance to actually occupy this moment that we find ourselves in, what we used to call thefuture. Here it is.” (Nick Flynn)“This stunning debut is an example of why writers call writing good, honest, hard work.” (Jericho Brown)“These poems are as much fables of the end of our civilization as they are fables of the self. I can think of no one in her generation who has taken on a more difficult subject, treated it with such passion and intelligence, and given so much linguistic pleasure.” (Tom Sleigh)“Failure and I Bury the Bodyunfolds with the forward motion and wide horizon of myth. I thought of a visceralSir Gawaine and the Green Knightfor the age of storms -- a redemptive journey into the desert, to the ruins of the future.” (D. Nurkse)