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Ante body

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Ante body is an incisive poetic sequence exploring the intersection of migration, complex traumas, and autoimmune disease, evolving into a powerful critique of the unjust conditions behind the global pandemic. Marwa Helal innovatively employs the Arabic poetic form and Fred Moten's concept of "the ANTE" to challenge patriarchal, capitalist, nationalist, and globalist systems.
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Finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize in Poetry

An incisive poetic sequence that tracks the relationship between migration and complex traumas in this unsparing critique of the unjust conditions that brought us the global pandemic.

Ante body is a poetics of [un]rest. A project that started as an exploration of how the psychological impacts of migration and complex traumas manifest as autoimmune disease and grew into a critique of the ongoing unjust conditions that brought on the global pandemic.

Continuing her use of the invented poetic form, the Arabic, and integrating Fred Moten's concept of "the ANTE," Helal creates an elliptical reading experience in which content and form interrogate the inner workings of patriarchy, capitalism, nationalism, and globalism.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781643621425

Publisher: Nightboat Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 July 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Nightboat Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 88

About the Author

Marwa Helal is the author of Ante body (Nightboat Books, 2022), Invasive species (Nightboat Books, 2019) and the chapbook I AM MADE TO LEAVE I AM MADE TO RETURN (No, Dear, 2017). Helal is the winner of a 2021 Whiting Award and has been awarded fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, NYFA/NYSCA, Poets House, and Cave Canem among others. Born in Al Mansurah, Egypt, she lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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