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From one of the most imaginative and radical voices in contemporary poetry, a debut collection of fierce tenderness, political acuity, and powerful lyricism. is visually stimulating, thought-provoking, emotionally wrenching, and exquisitely crafted. Dobbs' poems blur and collapse narrative distances within and between places, from the Levant to Michigan, and break down dichotomies portrayed in Western media: between Arabness and whiteness, intellectualism and the working poor, Muslimness and queerness, disability and desire. By turns irreverent and serenely gentle, Dobbs calls us to speak, to dream, and to imagine beyond those distances so that we might speak, dream, and imagine better versions of ourselves, our relationships to each other, and our places in the world.

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Author:   Tarik Dobbs
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
ISBN:  

9798888901274

Pages:   100
Publication Date:   11 June 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

LIVED HERE POEM WHERE EVERY BIRD IS A DRONE DUPLEX: MY BROTHER WAS BORN BOTH ALLY & COMBATANT THE WIRE PERSONA POEM AS AMERICA NAMESAKE WITH NO HISTORY FOUND THE POET CONSIDERS THEIR ROLE DRAGPHRASIS: ALEXIS MATEO CALLS HOME THE TROOPS WITH A DEATH DROP DEAR PRE-QUEER LOVER, REFLECTION IN STAINLESS STEEL MIRROR DIORAMA WITH ACCORDION FOLD RONDEAU: IN 1990 ONE SUNSET EQUALIZES THE LIGHT BETWEEN A CHECKPOINT CONTROL ROOM AND A DARKENED HALL TO REVEAL THE SILHOUETTE OF AN ISRAELI SOLDIER HOME ON THE RANGE, GAZA STRIP DECONSTRUCTING MY BIRTH WHEN MY MOM RENTED A HOUSE ACROSS THE STREET FROM A DOLLAR GENERAL X-RAY DIPTYCH IN BEN GURION AIRPORT SKY BRIDGE RENDERING ABOVE MINNEAPOLIS & THE WEST BANK SON THROWING STONES IN THE STREET ANTI-DRONE NIQAB MADE FROM SILVER MAD HONEY MY UNCLE WHO DIED OF AIDS PROBABLY EVERY MORNING I TAKE A BUS THROUGH THE WEST BANK, MINNEAPOLIS FLY INFESTED HOUSEPLANT BRACELET OF SILENCE PERSONA POEM AS IN-HOME DRONE NUB A DJINN HUMS IN SAKHNIN PARADE IN GAZA: THE MODEL IS ABOUT TO BE BURNED LANDAYS: ON EID AL-ADHA, MEN ON TV TIE A LENGTH OF MANILLA ROPE EVERYTHING MY FATHER TOUCHES THE FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD CONSIDERS HIS CLOSET FINALLY WRITING THE POEM NUB (ORIGIN STORY) A SYNDROME RECEIVES HIS LIFETIME SERVICE AWARD ON IRAQ WAR VETERANS PORTRAIT WITH UNKNOWN DIMENSIONS THAT JULY, MY SITO CALLS FROM DAMASCUS AT MIDNIGHT NOT AN EXIT NOTES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Reviews

""In their compelling debut Nazar Boy, Tarik Dobbs writes across and against the borders of race, class, ability, and sexual orientation—the checkpoints wherein the body is scrutinized, surveilled, and othered in ways meant to define and contain. This book demands a reckoning—both personal and national. In the precise mirror of these poems we find both the darkness and its necessary illumination, a way to confront ourselves."" —Natasha Trethewey, author of The House of Being ""Nazar Boy (with its visual, lyrical, political, and spiritual ferocity) is one of the best debuts in recent memory. Do I mean spiritual? Yes, I feel the shape of my own soul when I read Tarik Dobbs’s work. From war and within war, with love and hammer, long hope and deep memory, Dobbs crafts a weapon of a book that will cut you deep and good. May this work ignite us towards freedom."" —Danez Smith, author of Homie

""In their compelling debut Nazar Boy, Tarik Dobbs writes across and against the borders of race, class, ability, and sexual orientation--the checkpoints wherein the body is scrutinized, surveilled, and othered in ways meant to define and contain. This book demands a reckoning--both personal and national. In the precise mirror of these poems we find both the darkness and its necessary illumination, a way to confront ourselves."" --Natasha Trethewey, author of The House of Being ""Nazar Boy (with its visual, lyrical, political, and spiritual ferocity) is one of the best debuts in recent memory. Do I mean spiritual? Yes, I feel the shape of my own soul when I read Tarik Dobbs's work. From war and within war, with love and hammer, long hope and deep memory, Dobbs crafts a weapon of a book that will cut you deep and good. May this work ignite us towards freedom."" --Danez Smith, author of Homie ""In their compelling debut Nazar Boy, Tarik Dobbs writes across and against the borders of race, class, ability, and sexual orientation-the checkpoints wherein the body is scrutinized, surveilled, and othered in ways meant to define and contain. This book demands a reckoning-both personal and national. In the precise mirror of these poems we find both the darkness and its necessary illumination, a way to confront ourselves."" -Natasha Trethewey, author of The House of Being ""Nazar Boy (with its visual, lyrical, political, and spiritual ferocity) is one of the best debuts in recent memory. Do I mean spiritual? Yes, I feel the shape of my own soul when I read Tarik Dobbs's work. From war and within war, with love and hammer, long hope and deep memory, Dobbs crafts a weapon of a book that will cut you deep and good. May this work ignite us towards freedom."" -Danez Smith, author of Homie

Author Information

Tarik Dobbs (b.1997; Dearborn, MI) is a writer, an artist, and a Poetry Foundation Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. Tarik's poems appear in the Best New Poets and Best of the Net anthologies, as well as AGNI, Guernica, and Poetry Magazine, among others. Tarik helps run poetry.onl, and served as a guest editor at Mizna: Prose, Poetry, and Art Exploring Arab America as well as Zoeglossia: A Community for Poets with Disabilities. Tarik received an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Minnesota, and is currently an M.F.A. fellow in art, theory, practice at Northwestern University.

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