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<p><b>Poems of loss and liberation, the body and the human spirit: the astonishing debut collection from Palestinian poet Batool Abu Akleen</b></p><p><i>'In this book, I am collecting the parts of myself I have found, in case there isn't anyone there to do so if I am killed.'</i></p><p>Each of the forty-eight poems assembled in this startling bilingual collection represents a single kilogram of a body's mass. In spare, stark language, Abu Akleen writes of a city under siege and a self under constant assault, articulating the personal and the public in the midst of unspeakable violence. <i>48kg</i> immortalizes her voice and, in doing so, reaches out for a space of shared humanity.</p><p>'One of the most viscerally affecting collections of poems I have ever read. Devastatingly precise and unforgettable images emerge from every line... What is happening in Gaza is a genocide not a war, but not since Akhmatova have I read poetry that so potently reckons with the relationship between war and the body. They create a new category of literary grace out of the cataclysm. These are poems of fire and agony, bombing and starvation, but they are also poems of grace, cleverness, tenderness and yearning. A great international poet arrives with this collection, but it is also a landmark work of resistance. No human should have to write their poetry from inside death's dominion, but Batool Abu Akleen has done it, and the result is truly astonishing.' -Max Porter</p><p>Translated from Arabic by the poet (with Graham Liddell, Wiam El-Tamami, Cristina Viti and Yasmin Zaher), edited by Dominic J. Jaeckle and Cristina Viti, and published in collaboration with Tenement Press.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781837315185

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

242 x 151 x 25 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)