Death Under Construction is the first full-length book by Iranian-born, San Francisco-based poet/sculptor/musician Ava Koohbor. Singing loud from the intersection of Farsi and English, of emigrant memoir and concrete ode, Koohbor approaches the bewitching problem of living with astringent eye, killer ear, and paint on her hands.
Co-published with Bird & Beckett Books in an edition of 600 copies.
Ava Koohbor is a native Farsi-speaker poet and visual artist who now lives in San Francisco. Many of her poems have been appeared in various magazines. Her chapbook, Triangle Squared, a fictional conversation among John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, and Morton Feldman, has been published by Bootstrap Press. She’s now working with poet Patrick James Dunagan on translating Hafez’s poems from Farsi into English. She appreciates whatever art offers to her in any and all forms. She believes that each artist is a medium to transfer the world of possibilities to what is.
Trade Paperback
Perfect-bound in two-color letterpress wrappers. 88 pp, 7 x 9.5 in
Publication Date: March 01 2020
Distribution: Asterism Books (US), Direct Only