{"product_id":"9781682261040-a-theory-of-birds","title":"A Theory of Birds","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoems\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in \u003cem\u003eA Theory of Birds\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInside the dodo bird is a forest, Inside the forest\u003cbr\u003e a peach analog, Inside the peach analog a woman, Inside\u003cbr\u003e the woman a lake of funerals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eA Theory of Birds\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePutting 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56333695582582,"sku":"9781682261040","price":14.83,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_38247740.jpg?v=1771334762","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781682261040-a-theory-of-birds","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}