<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><P>In Failure and I Bury the Body, selected by D. Nurkse for the National Poetry Series, Sasha West calls upon the tradition of medieval allegory to speak to modern anxieties.<P>Haunted by a melting Antarctica and the tragedies of the twentieth century, the narrator and the character of Failure take a road trip through the Southwestern desert.<P>Before long, the Corpse, an inescapable passenger, joins them. As the narrator and Failure attempt to rid themselves of his body, the linked poems investigate desire, extinction, and the made world."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In <em>Failure and I Bury the Body</em>, selected by D. Nurkse for the National Poetry Series, Sasha West calls upon the tradition of medieval allegory to speak to modern anxieties.</p><p>Haunted by a melting Antarctica and the tragedies of the twentieth cen-tury, the narrator and the character of Failure take a road trip through the Southwestern desert.</p><p>Before long, the Corpse, an inescapable passenger, joins them. As the narrator and Failure attempt to rid themselves of his body, the linked poems investigate desire, extinction, and the made world.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>2012 National Poetry Series Selection</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<i>Failure and I Bury the Body</i> unfolds with the forward motion and wide horizon of myth. I thought of a visceral <i>Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight</i> for the age of storms -- a redemptive journey into the desert, to the ruins of the future."--D. Nurkse<br><br>"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 the <i>future</i>. Here it is."--Nick Flynn<br><br>"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<br><br>"This stunning debut is an example of why writers call writing good, honest, hard work."--Jericho Brown<br>