TERROR COUNTER

TERROR COUNTER is a debut collection of poems which acts against the many languages—interpersonal, legal, literary, rhetorical—constricting the lives and meanings of Palestinians.

It moves through sections of varying experimentalism, from an invented visual form (the Gazan Tunnel) to all-caps queer ecstatic, attempting to carve out a space for the negotiation of an alternative subjecthood.

The voices in this collection are driven by despair, futility, utopia, vulnerability and the spirit of a collective liberation; they move in search of a lyrical voice which can inhabit both the paranoid preservationist mode that facilitates Palestinian survival, and the imaginative possibilities that might make possible Palestinian life. TERROR COUNTER asks: where and how might a Palestinian subject escape the public consumption of American letters? And, ultimately, how can we continue to love each other amidst the endless terror of the colonial world?

About the author

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi is a Palestinian performance artist.

Product details

• Authors: Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, Fargo Nissim Tbhaki
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.08.2025
• EAN: 9781646053797
• ISBN: 978-1-64605-379-7
• No. of pages: 125
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 193 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Poetry, POETRY / American / General, POETRY / Middle Eastern, Political activism, Political activism / Political engagement, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Political & Protest