Failure and I Bury the Body (National Poetry Series)
&#8220;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.&#8221; (Nick Flynn)&#8220;This stunning debut is an example of why writers call writing good, honest, hard work.&#8221; (Jericho Brown)&#8220;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.&#8221; (Tom Sleigh)&#8220;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.&#8221; (D. Nurkse)