Bøger i Etel Adnan Poetry Series serien

Winner of the 2017 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. Rizkallah's the magic my body becomes is an exciting new book from an exciting young poet, a love letter to a people as well as a fist in the air.

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.

"...celebrates the body - its rise and fall, ebb and flow, in a carnival of parties-restlessly, shamelessly, searching for a way out. Even as Abughattas claims that 'I can't believe sometimes I have a body', her poems teem with an awareness of the body's unavoidable centrality in our lives" - from the Preface

Conversation and memory are at the heart of Danielle Badra's Like We Still Speak. In her elegiac and formally inventive debut, Badra carries on talking with the sister and father she has lost, often setting her words alongside theirs and others' in polyphonic poems that can be read in multiple directions.