{"product_id":"birthright-9781943735679","title":"Birthright","description":"2021 Arab American Awards - George Ellenbogen Poetry Award Winner \u003cbr\u003e2021 Lambda Literary Awards - Bisexual Poetry Finalist \u003cbr\u003e2020 Big Other Awards - Poetry Winner \u003cbr\u003e2020 Big Other Awards - Readers' Choice Finalist \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbraham's highly anticipated debut \u003ci\u003e Birthright\u003c\/i\u003e constructs a dialogue in which \"every pronoun is a Free Palestine.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough poems of immense emotion, and the use of alluring form, Abraham crafts work that examines what we come to own by existing. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBirthright\u003c\/i\u003e begs readers to stay, to stay lucid, to stay alive, to stay present in this very moment; as it knows now is all we are guaranteed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs trauma seeps through generations, can the body deconstruct its own inheritance? In a world that only takes, what is owed? What is your Birthright, and where is home?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbraham, George:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - George Abraham is a Palestinian-American Poet, Author, Activist, and Engineering PhD candidate at Harvard University. He is the author of the poetry collection Birthright (Button Poetry 2020), as well as the chapbooks al youm: for yesterday \u0026amp; her inherited traumas, winner of the Atlas Review's 2017 chapbook contest, and the specimen's apology, forthcoming with Sibling Rivalry Press in 2019. He is the recipient of fellowships from Kundiman, Poetry Foundation Incubator, the Watering Hole, and Brooklyn Poets, and is the winner of the 2018 Cosmonauts Avenue Poetry Prize, selected by Tommy Pico.","brand":"Button Poetry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613293285650,"sku":"9781943735679","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0a9885fd-7826-49a7-a171-a7fe9226d037.jpg?v=1732394233","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/birthright-9781943735679","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}