The specimen's apology

Abraham, George

ISBN 10: 1943977925 / ISBN 13: 9781943977925

Published by Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC (edition ), 2019

About this Item

It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Seller Inventory # 1943977925-8-1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The specimen's apology
• Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC (edition )
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1943977925
• ISBN 13: 9781943977925
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Abdelrazaq, Leila
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

"George Abraham's poems bristle with alchemy, a narrative of love, history, family, and Palestine that pulses with longing"--

Review

"Searing away binaries, demolishing the calcified partitions between halves--this is George Abraham's the specimen's apology. Boy/man, man/woman, history/present, conflict/occupation, English/Arabic, poetry/visual art--the gulf between each is breached, shrunk, erased, widened, warped. 'I am always translating, ' Abraham tells us in one poem--and it is the wild desperate yearning of the translator, working in vain to achieve perfect fidelity to a source, that powers these poems: 'if desire is, / as my language translates, a moon, / let this body be the satellite.'" - Kaveh Akbar

"From the first, devastating poem ('i touch myself & do not leak gold'), George Abraham's poems bristle with alchemy, a narrative of love, history, family, and Palestine that pulses with longing. 'You cannot know the way you split galaxies/with a single breath, ' he says, a prophecy that unfolds throughout the collection, where the speaker reclaims himself, his grief and--yes--his land, over and over. Juxtaposed with Leila Abdelrazaq's startlingly evocative artwork, the specimen's apology is a fearless, riveting excavation of self and other." - Hala Alyan

"In the specimen's apology George Abraham writes with a sharp elegance about lineage, about inheritance, about what gets passed down and what doesn't. What's erased. What's obscured. What's locked away. I get the sense of Rubik's Cube-ing, searching for the right sequence of words or images or structures to make sense of absence, and in doing so he makes a beautiful, furious and crackling new kind of sense. His writing smacks my feelings right across the face." - Tommy Pico