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- Author: Siwar Masannat
- Publisher: Georgia Review Books
- ISBN-10: 0820365971
- ISBN-13: 9780820365978
- Format: 15.8 x 21.6 x 2 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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With cue, Siwar Masannat follows up her prize-winning debut with poems that wrestle with intimacy and distance. Departing from love as a force of creation, cue's intertextual experiments and lyric poems map environmental relations and pose questions about privacy and visibility, love and family, gender, and ecological agency.
Masannat responds to artist Akram Zaatari's excavation of studio portraits by Hashem El Madani. Captured between the 1940s and 1970s in the Lebanese town of Saida, El Madani's photographs are living artifacts of a transnational modernity. They archive performances of gender and romance that seek to circumvent respectability politics. The private-public, then, emerges as a paradox at the heart of cue's composition. The desire to commune with and re-transmit the photographs and their stories is accompanied by the speaker's understanding of how visibility may be coopted and how privacy, at once essential and weaponized, is unevenly enjoyed, opportunistically deployed, and systematically encroached upon.EXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA
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- Author: Siwar Masannat
- Publisher: Georgia Review Books
- ISBN-10: 0820365971
- ISBN-13: 9780820365978
- Format: 15.8 x 21.6 x 2 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
With cue, Siwar Masannat follows up her prize-winning debut with poems that wrestle with intimacy and distance. Departing from love as a force of creation, cue's intertextual experiments and lyric poems map environmental relations and pose questions about privacy and visibility, love and family, gender, and ecological agency.
Masannat responds to artist Akram Zaatari's excavation of studio portraits by Hashem El Madani. Captured between the 1940s and 1970s in the Lebanese town of Saida, El Madani's photographs are living artifacts of a transnational modernity. They archive performances of gender and romance that seek to circumvent respectability politics. The private-public, then, emerges as a paradox at the heart of cue's composition. The desire to commune with and re-transmit the photographs and their stories is accompanied by the speaker's understanding of how visibility may be coopted and how privacy, at once essential and weaponized, is unevenly enjoyed, opportunistically deployed, and systematically encroached upon.
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