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forthcoming
gender-variant
genocide
Islam
Islamic poetry
poet
poetry
political
politics
religion
religious
spiritual
spirituality
Trans
trans poetry
transgender
Product details
- ISBN 9781643623078
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Nightboat Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A book of transition—poetic, political, religious—and its always radical implications.
Occupied with trans spirituality, the genocide in Palestine, and the manifold intricacies of queer love and struggle, the poems in imogen smith’s second collection, raw & zero, open up an unabashedly musical incitement to take a stand on honest ground. At the heart of this collection lies the tensions between the philosophical and the erotic. Language unspools throughout long form pieces influenced by concrete poetry, as the poet plays with a sense of shape, space, and symbols. With raw & zero, smith charts medical transition, a budding Islamic practice, and civic resistance, felt in the book’s themes of meaning-making, hope, love, lust, identity, and community alongside personal, regional, and global grief.
imogen smith is a poet & transsexual. She is the author of raw & zero & stemmy things, both published by Nightboat Books. They believe in a free Palestine, a borderless world, & trans power.
