Alsous Zaina Alsous

Theory of Birds (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry PrizeInside the dodo bird is a forest, Inside the foresta peach analog, Inside the peach analog a woman, Insidethe woman a lake of funeralsThis 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Arkansas Press
• Seitenzahl: 70
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610756747
• Artikelnr.: 72329465

Autorenporträt

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