Toska: Poems

Toska: Poems

Alina Pleskova
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Toska derives its title from the Russian word which denotes a melancholic longing without a singular cause, longing for a better world than the late-stage capitalist hell we live in. Toska explores a sense of rootlessness & a sort of anti-nationalism; how the pervasive sense of being an immigrant or "in but not of" a place never quite dissipates, particularly amid the dissonance & alienation felt within U.S. culture gunning towards a vision of imperialist capitalist white supremacist hegemony. Still, within this bleak reality, there's an insistence on documenting & noticing the multivalence of desire — its delights & pitfalls alike. 

These poems come to the weary conclusion, time and time again, that sexual liberalism/liberation & hedonism are only one sort of revelation — that this sort of openness & exploration isn't enough to save anyone from despair or the existentially weary feeling of toska from which the title takes its name. But desire is not just Eros — the poems carry a strong desire for a different world, for everyone.

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Alina Pleskova is a poet, editor, & Moscow-born immigrant turned proud Philadelphian. She co-edits bedfellows magazine & is a 2020 & 2022 Leeway Foundation grant awardee. Her chapbook, What Urge Will Save Us, was published in 2017, & her writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, Thrush, Peach Mag, the tiny, & elsewhere.

Yıl:
2023
Yayımcı:
Deep Vellum Publishing
Dil:
english
Sayfalar:
84
ISBN 10:
1646052935
ISBN 13:
9781646052936
Dosya:
EPUB, 1.16 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2023
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