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In Surplus Skin, Ibrahim Abdelfattah performs a visceral autopsy of the modern poetic soul, peeling back the epidermis of the mundane to reveal the hemorrhaging silence beneath. This collection is a surgical deconstruction of the ""night"" that has thickened into a suffocating, excess layer of flesh-a ""vast prison without walls"" where time gains weight and compresses the chest of the city . Ibrahim Abdelfattah's voice operates within the phenomenology of alienation, where the self is a fluid, unstable construct, terrified that a name might stick to it permanently . He navigates a Cairo that is less a geography and more a ""capital of ice,"" a landscape where the ""meekness of killers"" allows War to sit casually on a balcony, smoking a cigarette while the world trembles . Here, the boundaries between the corporeal and the ethereal dissolve; memory is a ""coat heavy with mud"" that one yearns to shed, and identity is merely a mask worn in the ""disguise room,"" sustained by the ""K-particle of simile"". These poems are a manifesto for the ""ecstatic wanderers"" and the ""poets who corrupted love,"" offering a stark, unflinching look at a reality where endings are fair but brutal, and where the only salvation lies in the ""laughter etched onto the face of ruin"". Sulfur Editions, 2025

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Ibrahim Abdelfattah: Egyptian poet and playwright, born in Cairo, 1959. He is the author of numerous publications, including: An Old Window, A Group Portrait of Solitude, Nothing Carries Its Old Name Except Your New Face, Cinema Awanta, Almost Real, l The Absentee's Shar, and How Are You: Ziad Rahbani

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