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Surplus Skin
Paperback
Publisher: Sulfur Editions
Published: Dec 17 2025
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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