Toska
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Product Details
Author:
Alina Pleskova
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
120
Publisher:
Deep Vellum Publishing (June 13, 2023)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9781646052721
ISBN-10:
1646052722
Dimensions:
5" x 8"
File:
CONSORTIUM-Metadata_Only_Consortium_Customer_Group_Metadata_20260401130217-20260401.xml
Folder:
CONSORTIUM
List Price:
$16.95
Country of Origin:
United States
Case Pack:
75
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$14.58
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
C
Pub Discount:
60
Weight:
4.8oz
Imprint:
Deep Vellum Publishing
Overview
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 and 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 and alienation felt within U.S. culture gunning towards a vision of imperialist capitalist white-supremacist hegemony. These poems come to the weary conclusion, time and time again, that sexual liberalism/liberation and hedonism are only one sort of revelation — that this sort of openness and 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.
