Distributed for Oberlin College Press
Vanishing Lung Syndrome
Vanishing Lung Syndrome confirms Holub’s special status as one of Europe’s leading poets and as a rare mediator between scientific and literary modes of discourse. This book is darkly witty and mordantly accurate; it documents, among other things, the ignorance, folly and brutality abroad in our world. But it also brims with tenderness, humor, and occasional gleams of hope.
Table of Contents
SYNCOPE • 1751 • What Else • Yoga • Great Ancestors • Not for Sale • Gardeners • Night Calamities • Parasite • Skinning • SYMPTOM • La Brea • Skeletons • Fish • Funerals • From the Travels of Abigdor Karo • The Steam Car • Glass • The Pedestrian: Lower West Side/New York • Hemophilia/Los Angeles • They Asked the Gods • Nineveh • A Small Town in the Sonora Desert • SYNDROME • Parallels Syndrome • Incense Syndrome • Wenceslas Square syndrome • The Stiff Man Syndrome • Kuru, or the Smiling Death Syndrome • Vanishing Lung Syndrome • Crush Syndrome • Job’s Syndrome • Diagnoses • Animal Rights • The Festival • SYNAPSE • Heart Transplant • The Cloud Shepherd of Hans Arp • Landscape with Poets • Piety • The Sun of Hope • The Clock • Spacetime • Formula One • The Fall from the Green Frog