The Last Visit
Chad Abushanab
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The Last Visit
Chad Abushanab
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In Chad Abushanab's debut poetry collection, The Last Visit, he carefully and compassionately explores a family broken by alcoholism and abuse. These poems trace the trajectory of an adolescent living with a violent father struggling with addiction, and recount both the abused child's perspective and his attempts to reckon with his past as he reaches adulthood, chronicling his own struggles with substance abuse and the reverberations of trauma in his life. Amid the violence and hurt, Abushanab's verse renders moments of compassion—even the least sympathetic figures are shown to be grappling with their flaws, and the narrator struggles to find compassion and move beyond the memories and habits that haunt him. These well-crafted poems explore how the past shapes us and how difficult it can be to leave behind.
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- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Negatives under Microscope
- The Factory
- Plastic Men
- The Way
- Dead Town
- Ghazal
- Toward Your Understanding
- Missing
- Confession: Silva’s Quarry
- Boys
- Found Dead in the Sequatchie Valley
- The Dive
- The Future of the Past
- To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage
- Cheating in a Small Town
- Ghazal
- Again
- Layover after Visiting My Father
- Poem Begun in a West Texas Corn Maze
- Ghazal
- A Haunted House
- Restless
- Custody Denied
- Ghazal
- Roadkill Ode
- Visiting My Own Grave
- Halloween
- Love Poem with Five Lines Stolen from VHS Boxes
- Drive-In
- Ghazal
- Drinking All Night in Tennessee
- Small Funeral
- Desert Elegy
- A Voice from the Wreck
- Ghazal
- Rubáiyát for My Father
- Necessary Rituals
- The Landlocked Lighthouse
- Love Poem with Desert and Stars
- On the Dred Ranch Road Just Off 283
- Hometown Knowledge
- The Phone
- The Last Visit
- About the Donald Justice Poetry Prize
- Acknowledgments
- Thank You
- About the Author