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- ISBN 9781643621425
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2022
- Publisher: Nightboat Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize in Poetry
An incisive poetic sequence that tracks the relationship between migration and complex traumas in this unsparing critique of the unjust conditions that brought us the global pandemic.
Ante body is a poetics of [un]rest. A project that started as an exploration of how the psychological impacts of migration and complex traumas manifest as autoimmune disease and grew into a critique of the ongoing unjust conditions that brought on the global pandemic. Continuing her use of the invented poetic form, the Arabic, and integrating Fred Moten’s concept of “the ANTE,” Helal creates an elliptical reading experience in which content and form interrogate the inner workings of patriarchy, capitalism, nationalism, and globalism.
