Thank You Terror

Mathias Svalina

We thank the world by living. We pray in rust & suture in pistil & pine. This ruined world my only prayer: if I can’t love it for me I will love it for you.

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Mathias Svalina is the author of eight books, most recently Thank You Terror (Big Lucks Books, 2024). Since 2014 he has run a dream delivery service: dreamdeliveryservice.com.

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Washington DC, District of Columbia

"Ten years after the publication of Wastoid, Mathias Svalina returns to Big Lucks Books. In his eighth full-length title, Svalina tackles loss, grief, depression, and survival with a tenderness so apt that it demands its reader to look inward: at their relationship with love, with sadness, with friendship, and with themselves. As courageous as it is confessional, Thank You Terror holds the world close and encourages it to listen."

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