Pitt Poetry #: about:blank

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Pitt Poetry #: about:blank
Tracy Fuad
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19 Oct 2021 US
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9780822966685
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In about:blank, Tracy Fuad builds a poetics of contemporary dissociation. Funny, plaintive, and cutting, this formally inventive debut probes alienation in place and in language through the author' s consideration of her own relationship to Iraqi Kurdistan. about:blank - the title of which is the universal URL for a blank web page - complicates questions of longing and belonging. Interrogating the language of internet chatrooms, Yelp reviews, and the Kurdish dictionary, the poems here leap surprisingly between subjects to find new meaning. Written before and during the years the author spent living in Iraqi Kurdistan, the collection documents the alienation of being inside, outside, and between language(s) and the always-already terror of grammar. At once haunted and humorous, about:blank inhabits and exhibits the disorientation and fragmentation that is endemic to the internet era, and mourns the loss of a more embodied existence.

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"Like Venn diagrams, these poems overlap the poet' s Kurdish positionality with cyberfeminist codes, seeking possible relations and pathways of communication. Half-written sentences, abandoned thoughts, stutters, and impenetrable utterances exist alongside detailed and astute observances, plaintive statements of loneliness, joy, or frustration. Like the course of a life, not every moment in this innovative collection yields to its reader; but about: blank' s collective force trembles with formal brilliance and originality. " --Claudia Rankine, Donald Hall Prize for Poetry judge "Tracy Fuad has an overflowing, overwhelming gift, and to receive it is to perceive, in glimmers, a faraway song sung intimate, a difficult place made home. As far as this poet travels, her heart ventures ever further, like a stone skipped for the reader to glimpse what depths and thirsts lie ahead. about: blank is part love letter, part letter to the editor of this warring and scarred world--the poet' s tether to it a braid of desire, devotion, abjection. This book will travel with me, as love travels a soul, always finding some new way to be. " --Brenda Shaughnessy, author of The Octopus Museum
Tracy Fuad is the author of PITH, winner of the Gloria Anzaldua Prize, and DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD. Her work has appeared in Poetry, the Best New Poets Anthology, the New Republic, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the Rutgers-Newark MFA program and a 2021-2022 Writing Fellow at the Providence Fine Arts Work Center.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780822966685
Published: 19 Oct 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 96

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