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Unnatural Bird Migrator

Unnatural Bird Migrator

Resnikoff, Ariel

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1946031879
ISBN13: 9781946031877
Publisher: Operating System Glossarium: Unsilenced Texts
Published: Dec 1 2020
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.37 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.00
Language: English

Unnatural Bird Migrator stitches together disparate filaments of diasporic language as a living quilt of translational refuse, a patchwork-art gleaned and assembled from the pieces of writing and speech we are quite literally taught to forget. 'UNBM' traverses the semi-permeable borders between doubling and tripling mother tongues in exile, looping these languages through one another and back again in the form of a highly adaptive poetic boomerang that returns from the other side of the linguistic threshold already changed. This translinguistic praxis explores writing as a mode of perpetual displacement, translating language in wide spirals outward to the farthest edges of the sonic/semantic divide, while gleaning materials for a poetics from even the minutest residues left behind. Resnikoff's compositional method engages by (mis)translation in/to​ Yiddish-, Hebrew-, Aramaic- and Akkadian- adapted​ sonic/semantic properties in​ grammar, syntax and lexicon, taking English as its temporary host while performing perpetual inflectional slippages-interlingual punning and fusion-slangs-as much as the host can absorb. The dybbuk (Yiddish: spirit-possessor), which the author's Jewish-Ashkenazi ancestors believed to inhabit the body of the wild stutterer, mad person, heretic or akher [lit. other], becomes the peripheral focus​ of this poetry, as Resnikoff reimagines the ways in which such a possession by language itself might manifest in the ​odd practices of the poet, translator and Jew. The word odd here functions in deliberate echo of the terms against which Sabbatean stigma was first transcribed in 17th-century Palestine: for the odd practices of a false messiah.

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