{"product_id":"a-theory-of-birds-poems","title":"A Theory of Birds: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2019 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eInside the dodo bird is a forest, Inside the forest \u003cbr\u003e a peach analog, Inside the peach analog a woman, Inside \u003cbr\u003e the woman a lake of funerals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis layering of bird, woman, place, technology, and ceremony, which begins this first full-length collection by Zaina Alsous, mirrors the layering of insights that marks the collection as a whole. The poems in \u003ci\u003eA Theory of Birds\u003c\/i\u003e draw on inherited memory, historical record, critical theory, alternative geographies, and sharp observation. In them, birds--particularly extinct species--become metaphor for the violences perpetrated on othered bodies under the colonial gaze.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePutting ecological preservation in conversation with Arab racial formation, state vernacular with the chatter of birds, Alsous explores how categorization can be a tool for detachment, domination, and erasure. Stretching their wings toward de-erasure, these poems--their subjects and their logics--refuse to stay put within a single category. This is poetry in support of a decolonized mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\r","brand":"Zaina Alsous","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44442577174764,"sku":"9781682261040","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781682261040.jpg?v=1708839746","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/a-theory-of-birds-poems","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}