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010			_a2019000970
020			_a9781682261040
050			_aPS3601.L694 A6 2019
245		2	_aA Theory of Birds: Poems by Zaina Alsous/ _cSeries editor: Hayan Charara and Fady Joudah
260			_aFayetteville; _bUniversity of Arkansas; _c2019
300			_a74p; _c22x14cm
490			_aEtel Adnan Poetry Series
520			_aThis 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.
546			_aEnglish
650			_aPN1010-1525 Poetry _91039
651			_aPalestine
942			_cBK
953			_8P _aSAFL _bSAFL _d1/22/26 _oPN1010-1525 40.665 _p6351 _yBK
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