Heart Failed in the Back of a Taxi: Poems

By Pedram Navab

Pedram Navabs Heart Failed in the Back of a Taxi explores the modern notion of loneliness and mourning through the lens of people and objects that have been cast aside as waste and forgotten. Whether the subject is a telephonic landline to the graves of two philosophers, a steam room in a fitness club that recalls the Holocaust, or trash in a Tokyo landfill that takes on a disfigured human form, the idea of abjectness begins to signify a new horror. Although, on the surface, this sense of forlornness signifies hopelessness, what emerges instead is a radical realization that this desolation can bear an uncanny strength. The detritus documented in these poems reveals a glimpse of a heartbreaking potentiality that is ultimately transforming.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Oct 26, 2011
• ISBN: 9781462046805

Pedram Navab

Pedram Navab, MD, FAASM, is a neurologist and sleep-medicine specialist of fifteen years. He received a fellowship from the Stanford Sleep Disorders Center and developed his own sleep lab, the Los Angeles Sleep Institute. He lives in Los Angeles.

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HEART FAILED

IN THE BACK

OF A TAXI

POEMS

Pedram Navab

iUniverse LLC

Bloomington

HEART FAILED IN THE BACK OF A TAXI

POEMS

Copyright © 2011, 2014 by Pedram Navab.

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