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This ISA Nice Neighborhood

This ISA Nice Neighborhood

Matuk, Farid

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ISBN10: 0981522750
ISBN13: 9780981522753
Publisher: Letter Machine Editions
Published: Dec 1 2010
Pages: 137
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.50
Language: English

Can identity be pliant and penetrable? Can the speech act be one of attention over intention, can play and fluidity open onto an ethic? This Isa Nice Neighborhood , Farid Matuk's first full-length collection, says yes. Yes to the rejection of any opposition between politics and aesthetics, between rhetoric and poetics. Yes to vulnerability. Yes to a poetry willing to enact the errors, uncertainties, and tangled complexities of our political, sexual, and social lives. Testing both narrative and lyric, Matuk finds desire at the root of each, a root from which, these poems suggest, compassion and permission grow intertwined.

This Isa Nice Neighborhood has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2011 Arab American Book Awards, named a finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award by the Poetry Society of America, and chosen by Geoffrey G. O'

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