Awards

• Long-listed for National Book Award for Poetry 2025 (United States)

Overview

Moving through sections of varying experimentalism, from an invented visual form (the Gazan Tunnel) to all-caps queer ecstatic, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi here attempts to carve out a space for the negotiation of an alternative subjecthood. The voices in this collection are driven by despair, futility, utopia, vulnerability and the spirit of a collective liberation; they move in search of a lyrical voice which can inhabit both the paranoid preservationist mode that facilitates Palestinian survival, and the imaginative possibilities that might make possible Palestinian life. TERROR COUNTER asks: where and how might a Palestinian subject escape the public consumption of American letters? And, ultimately, how can we continue to love each other amidst the endless terror of the colonial world?

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Reviews

An evocative, boundary-pushing reaction to the languages of terror that systematically undermine the lives of Palestinians. —Vulture In TERROR COUNTER’s innovation, forms conceived from thwarted expectations present a multitude of realities. —The Poetry Project From a queer Palestinian performance artist comes this debut poetry collection of Palestinian survival, imagination, preservation, and liberation. —Autostraddle Fargo Nissim Tbakhi is one of the greatest minds of our generation. —Summabis Within these poems are a set of instructions for being human as praxis and for the futures that are made possible by living outside colonial imaginaries. —Electric Literature

Author Information

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi is a Palestinian performance artist and the author of TERROR COUNTER (Deep Vellum, 2025; the87press 2026) and ANTIGONE. VELOCITY. SALT. (Deep Vellum, 2027).

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