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Diode Editions, 2024
What do we truly know? Are we deceiving ourselves when we think we know ourselves or the world? Jason Koo's No Rest, a Diode Editions Book Contest winner, pursues these questions through a series of long poems like essays in verse that demonstrate the elusiveness of any answers even as they keep up the pursuit. The book begins on the day after the 2016 presidential election, when Koo discovers that his best friend from high school has killed himself by throwing himself in front of a train. The year he thought would be the best of his life—because of the unexpected joy of meeting his future wife and seeing his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers win the city's first championship since 1964—turns out to be just another triumph of his self-absorption.
Diode Editions, 2024
What do we truly know? Are we deceiving ourselves when we think we know ourselves or the world? Jason Koo's No Rest, a Diode Editions Book Contest winner, pursues these questions through a series of long poems like essays in verse that demonstrate the elusiveness of any answers even as they keep up the pursuit. The book begins on the day after the 2016 presidential election, when Koo discovers that his best friend from high school has killed himself by throwing himself in front of a train. The year he thought would be the best of his life—because of the unexpected joy of meeting his future wife and seeing his hometown Cleveland Cavaliers win the city's first championship since 1964—turns out to be just another triumph of his self-absorption.
