{"product_id":"wanting-in-arabic-9781927494301","title":"Wanting in Arabic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Lambda Literary Award, Transgender Fiction, 2014\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWanting in Arabic\u003c\/i\u003e is a refusal of convenient silences, convenient stories. The author dwells on the contradictions of a transsexual poetics, in its attendant disfigurations of lyric, ghazal, l'ecriture feminine, and, in particular, her own sexed voice. Without a memory of her father's language, the questions her poems ask are those for a home known through photographs, for a language lost with childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBraiding theoretical concerns with the ambivalences of sexed and raced identity, with profound romanticism, \u003ci\u003eWanting in Arabic\u003c\/i\u003e attempts to traverse the fantasies of foundational loss and aggressive nostalgia in order to further a poetics of a conscious partiality of being, of generous struggle and comic rather than tragic misrecognition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrish Salah lives and writes in Tkaronto and is associate professor of Gender Studies at Queen's University, which is located on traditional Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee Territory. She is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eWanting in Arabic\u003c\/i\u003e (Mawenzi House), and of \u003ci\u003eLyric Sexology, Vol 1\u003c\/i\u003e (Metonymy Press). She is a Pushcart nominated poet and has work in recent issues of Mizna and Tripwire, and in \u003ci\u003eWe Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e. She is editor of the \u003ci\u003eJournal of Critical Race Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-editor of special issues of \u003ci\u003eTSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, on cultural production, and of \u003ci\u003eArc Poetry Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, featuring poetry by trans, Two-Spirit and non-binary writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tsar Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359064981778,"sku":"9781927494301","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fb41f0d6-46e3-407a-833e-37886c0c4e69.jpg?v=1749578145","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wanting-in-arabic-9781927494301","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}