TERROR COUNTER

Praise:

‘From a queer Palestinian performance artist comes this debut poetry collection of Palestinian survival, imagination, preservation, and liberation.’ —Autostraddle

‘Fargo Nissim Tbakhi is a Palestinian poetic being of the most natural order. Just wait until you arrive at his elegy for his father. If you’re lucky, you will understand what Sirhan Sirhan means. If you’re lucky, Tbakhi’s performance will let you taste what free is.’ —Fady Joudah, author of [...]

‘Liberation is love poetry. Bring your heart, dear reader. Bring your crowbar.’ —Brandon Shimoda, author of The Grave on the Wall

‘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

‘In this debut collection electric with grief, rage, and love, Tbakhi enacts the liberatory possibilities of a language reclaimed. Through a variety of invented forms and stirring unravelings, these poems tunnel, excavate, eulogize, exclaim, and most elegantly imagine where we might go once we reject the dehumanizing gaze and obsessions of a crumbling empire and return to ourselves and to each other. This book will crack your heart open. Let it, let the light come pouring in.’ —Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, author of Something About Living