{"product_id":"48kg","title":"Batool Abu Akleen: 48kg [2026]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems of loss and liberation, the body and the human spirit: the astonishing debut collection from Palestinian poet Batool Abu Akleen\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'In this book, I am collecting the parts of myself I have found, in case there isn't anyone there to do so if I am killed.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach of the forty-eight poems assembled in this startling bilingual collection represents a single kilogram of a body's mass. In spare, stark language, Abu Akleen writes of a city under siege and a self under constant assault, articulating the personal and the public in the midst of unspeakable violence. \u003ci\u003e48kg\u003c\/i\u003e immortalizes her voice and, in doing so, reaches out for a space of shared humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the most viscerally affecting collections of poems I have ever read. Devastatingly precise and unforgettable images emerge from every line... What is happening in Gaza is a genocide not a war, but not since Akhmatova have I read poetry that so potently reckons with the relationship between war and the body. They create a new category of literary grace out of the cataclysm. These are poems of fire and agony, bombing and starvation, but they are also poems of grace, cleverness, tenderness and yearning. A great international poet arrives with this collection, but it is also a landmark work of resistance. No human should have to write their poetry from inside death's dominion, but Batool Abu Akleen has done it, and the result is truly astonishing.' -Max Porter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated from Arabic by the poet (with Graham Liddell, Wiam El-Tamami, Cristina Viti and Yasmin Zaher), edited by Dominic J. Jaeckle and Cristina Viti, and published in collaboration with Tenement Press.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akleen, Batool Abu \u0026 Liddell, Graham \u0026 El-Tamami, Wiam \u0026 Viti, Cristina \u0026 Zaher, Yasmin","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":54387825672531,"sku":"9781837315185","price":13.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/9781837315185.jpg?v=1784831057","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/48kg","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}