PORTAL
Format:Paperback
Publisher:The 87 Press
Publishing:23rd Jul '26
£16.99
This title is due to be published on 23rd July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
An award-winning poetic examination of pregnancy, climate change, and post-colonialism.
A poetry collection exploring inheritance and reproduction through the lenses of parenthood, etymology, postcoloniality, and climate anxiety from emerging Kurdish-American writer Tracy Fuad.
Tracy Fuad’s second collection of poems, PORTAL, probes the fraught experience of bringing a new life into a world that is both lush and filled with gloom. A baby is born in a brutalist building; the planet shrinks under the new logic of contagion; roses washed up from a shipwreck centuries ago are blooming up and down the cape.
PORTAL documents a life that is mediated, even at its most intimate moments, by flattening interfaces of technology and in which language—and even intelligence—is no longer produced only by humans.
The voices here are stalked by eco-grief and loneliness, but they also brim with song and ecstasy, reveling in the strangeness of contemporary life while grieving losses that cannot be restored. Through Fuad’s frank, honest poetry, PORTAL vibrates with pleasure and dread.
Being more “connected” than ever to the world, there can be a strange sensation in trying to determine where we end and where everything else begins. Fuad is the poet of this porous feeling, and she follows the tides of that ever-changing boundary. With its inventive, precise language, PORTAL makes clarity from noise. ―Paris Review
The sophomore volume from Fuad examines the complicated experience of parenthood in a world shadowed by climate anxiety and postcolonial tradition. These pieces wrestle with technology, etymology, language, and biology. —Publisher’s Weekly
From a dazzling array of poetic techniques, Fuad's use of repetition to fashion pitch-perfect lyrics stands out, from tiny syllabic songs—'the inking of a ginkgo leaf'—to complex, emotionally freighted refrains, 'my mother’s mother’s remains remain at the morgue.' . . . For Fuad, language is a stubborn, tangible thing that bruises the body and, as the speaker says, created a 'swollen spot on the roof of my mouth where it met my teeth.'... Fuad's captivating poetry is totally her own. —Booklist starred review
ISBN: 9781068488078
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