{"product_id":"48kg","title":"48kg","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems of loss and liberation, the body and the human spirit: the astonishing debut collection from Palestinian poet Batool Abu Akleen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e'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.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach 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. \u003ci\u003e48kg\u003c\/i\u003e immortalizes her voice and, in doing so, reaches out for a space of shared humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTranslated 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"48kg","offer_id":50833175281861,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/48kg","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}