Daniel Kha­lastchi bold­ly strides across a land­scape of smol­der­ing fires, unmarked box­es, and pic­tures of sen­a­tors in air­plane bath­rooms. Exhil­a­rat­ing and inno­v­a­tive, The Sto­ry of Your Obsti­nate Sur­vival col­laps­es genre and upends nar­ra­tive con­ven­tion with daz­zling word­play and thrilling imagery. Inhab­it­ing a world trapped some­where between dreams and real­i­ty, these poems fuse the polit­i­cal and per­son­al, pub­lic and pri­vate, pleas­ing and piquant, to exam­ine both calami­ties and the dogged per­sis­tence required to endure. On dis­play through­out is Kha­lastchi’s excep­tion­al capac­i­ty for detail and speci­fici­ty, fill­ing up this world to the point of break­ing but nev­er beyond, insist­ing on sur­vival despite it all.