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- ISBN 9781552455241
- Weight: 136g
- Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 08 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Coach House Books
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
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A Mad Libs–style project contends with poetry from Turtle Island and Palestinian writers and asks: How can you claim space for claiming these [spaces]?
Sourcing from the works of more than twenty Palestinian and Indigenous poets, SPACE: Lessons in Taking and Making brings to light the relationship between reader and writer, person and space. By working through the poems and removing words, first person(s) and place(s) and finally linguistic subjectives such as language, Perry Cox uses the extracted words to create a word list, prompting the reader to fill in the blanks. The process presents theory-through-practice: collaborative and participatory composition methods that rely on intimate forms of engaging with Palestinian and Indigenous poetry writing and storytelling as qualitative research methods themselves.
Do you want to participate? Who and what are you accountable to? Should this be participatory work? At once playful and nostalgic, SPACE: Lessons in Taking and Making asks readers to consider their role in colonialism through their own instances of extraction and displacement.
Alexei Perry Cox is a writer and teacher and organizer. Her poetry collection, PLACE, (Noemi Press, 2022) and her novella To Garden: To Grave (Ditto Ditto, 2024) have received critical acclaim. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection Under Her (Insomniac Press, 2015) and three chapbooks: Finding Places to Make Places (Vallum, 2019), Revolution/Re:Evolution (Gap Riot Press, 2020), and Night 3 | اليوم الرابع (Centre for Expanded Poetics, 2021). Her work has been featured in journals such as Denver Quarterly, Journal Safar, Moko Magazine, Arc Poetry Magazine, and many others.
