The Evening Championship

By Masin Persina

What does it mean to live in our culture of spectacle and still find our humanity? In The Evening Championship, Masin Persina uses the stadium as both stage and metaphor to probe the violence that comes from our need to watch. But the collection seeks equally to explore the peripheral and tender: the scraps of old news articles, the remnants of a lost parent. Moving between public ritual and private grief with technical versatility and philosophical curiosity, Persina writes as both citizen and stranger, tracing the self as it navigates the ephemeral life that will not be archived-finding redemption, finally, in those dim moments away from the field lights, where we live with full consequence to those we love, "banking and blazing on repeat, downwind, all aflame."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HGNQ8WXV
• ISBN13: 9798899906435
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Finishing Line Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.2" x 6.0"