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Winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize
A lyric and historical examination of the Umbrella protests in Hong Kong
A psycho-geography and metahistory of the formation of Chicago
Selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the 2015 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Contest
Tracing the conception of a child through to her birth, Quiet Orient Riot addresses birth regimes and the politics of reproduction, unspooling the many ways that liturgical commands and an intense demographic anxiety affect a journey towards motherhood. Through these poems, Nathalie Khankan considers what it means to bear a Palestinian child in the occupied Palestinian territory, particularly with a pregnancy enabled through contingent access to Israel's sophisticated fertility treatment infrastructure. The poems confront questions of how to be a national vessel and to bear a body whose very creation is enabled by the pronatalist state, yet not recognized by it While Quiet Orient Riot chroni...
Winner of the Omnidawn Open Poetry Book Prize
Insightful, biting, and masterfully crafted, this collection of poems seeks to assess the pressing ecological, spiritual, and political crises of the modern era. Tracking the mysterious central and repeating character named Tony, elegant verse combines with the end-time rhetoric of contemporary fundamentalism. In a canonical meter, meditations are offered on the rise of fountain drinks and the use of artificial color as a means to investigate humanity's social fabric. Richly blending cutting social criticism with poetic lyricism, Cyrus Console comes to terms with the social continua on which sugar substitutes are manufactured by pharmaceutical giants and weaponized defoliants evolve into bestselling agrichemicals--all while breaking new ground on the role of poetry in an industrialized society.
Lines the Quarry writes of and into that ongoing disaster and possibility, interjecting into the commercial language of success the many violations--bodily and otherwise--that define capitalist exploitation.
Poetry. "If you want to get a look at the future of American poetry (and feel excited about it), read this book. In these poems, Mark Faunlagui's speakers are at once sophisticated and disarmingly vulnerable; hedonistic and polymathic; aesthetically and sexually transgressive and brimming over with an ecstatic love for words and a tender devotion to the human body."--Geoffrey Nutter "Mark Faunlagui's poems shimmer and glisten to a bruised beat, leaving beautiful welts in their wake. His measured poetic ecstasy is downright addictive. ON SOME HISPANOLUSO MINIATURISTS is a true cause for celebration in these dark times."--Todd Colby "From lush jungle to city sidewalks and all the landscapes in...
A debut poetry collection that meditates on imagination and existence