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A Theory of Birds
Poems
Taschenbuch von Zaina Alsous
Sprache: Englisch

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Winner of the 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize

Inside the dodo bird is a forest, Inside the forest
a peach analog, Inside the peach analog a woman, Inside
the woman a lake of funerals

This layering of bird, woman, place, technology, and ceremony, which begins this first full-length collection by Zaina Alsous, mirrors the layering of insights that marks the collection as a whole. The poems in A Theory of Birds draw on inherited memory, historical record, critical theory, alternative geographies, and sharp observation. In them, birds--particularly extinct species--become metaphor for the violences perpetrated on othered bodies under the colonial gaze.

Putting ecological preservation in conversation with Arab racial formation, state vernacular with the chatter of birds, Alsous explores how categorization can be a tool for detachment, domination, and erasure. Stretching their wings toward de-erasure, these poems--their subjects and their logics--refuse to stay put within a single category. This is poetry in support of a decolonized mind.

Winner of the 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize

Inside the dodo bird is a forest, Inside the forest
a peach analog, Inside the peach analog a woman, Inside
the woman a lake of funerals

This layering of bird, woman, place, technology, and ceremony, which begins this first full-length collection by Zaina Alsous, mirrors the layering of insights that marks the collection as a whole. The poems in A Theory of Birds draw on inherited memory, historical record, critical theory, alternative geographies, and sharp observation. In them, birds--particularly extinct species--become metaphor for the violences perpetrated on othered bodies under the colonial gaze.

Putting ecological preservation in conversation with Arab racial formation, state vernacular with the chatter of birds, Alsous explores how categorization can be a tool for detachment, domination, and erasure. Stretching their wings toward de-erasure, these poems--their subjects and their logics--refuse to stay put within a single category. This is poetry in support of a decolonized mind.

Über den Autor

Zaina Alsous is an abolitionist and a daughter of the Palestinian diaspora.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781682261040
ISBN-10: 1682261042
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Alsous, Zaina
Hersteller: University of Arkansas Press
Maße: 213 x 137 x 7 mm
Von/Mit: Zaina Alsous
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.10.2019
Gewicht: 0,126 kg
Artikel-ID: 116750887
Über den Autor

Zaina Alsous is an abolitionist and a daughter of the Palestinian diaspora.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Importe, Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781682261040
ISBN-10: 1682261042
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Alsous, Zaina
Hersteller: University of Arkansas Press
Maße: 213 x 137 x 7 mm
Von/Mit: Zaina Alsous
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.10.2019
Gewicht: 0,126 kg
Artikel-ID: 116750887
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