{"product_id":"nazar-boy-poems-paperback","title":"Nazar Boy: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTarik Dobbs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom one of the most imaginative and radical voices in contemporary poetry, a debut collection of fierce tenderness, political acuity, and powerful lyricism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eTarik Dobbs's work explores surveillance, queerness, disability, race, and working-class identity in post-9\/11 America. As an Arab American writer, Dobbs is achingly familiar with the power dynamics, violence, and capitalistic undercurrents woven through the language of the colonizer. They challenge this power in visual, free-verse, and formally intense poems--both traditional and innovative--that stretch the elasticity of borders, verbs, images, redactions, and more. Ranging from sonnets to concrete poems, \u003cem\u003eNazar Boy\u003c\/em\u003e is visually stimulating, thought-provoking, emotionally wrenching, and exquisitely crafted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDobbs' poems blur and collapse narrative distances within and between places, from the Levant to Michigan, and break down dichotomies portrayed in Western media: between Arabness and whiteness, intellectualism and the working poor, Muslimness and queerness, disability and desire. By turns irreverent and serenely gentle, Dobbs calls us to speak, to dream, and to imagine beyond those distances so that we might speak, dream, and imagine better versions of ourselves, our relationships to each other, and our places in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTarik Dobbs\u003c\/strong\u003e (b.1997; Dearborn, MI) is a writer, an artist, and a Poetry Foundation Ruth Lilly \u0026amp; Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellow. Tarik's poems appear in the\u003cem\u003e Best New Poets\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBest of the Net\u003c\/em\u003e anthologies, as well as \u003cem\u003eAGNI\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGuernica\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePoetry Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. Tarik helps run poetry.onl, and served as a guest editor at \u003cem\u003eMizna: Prose, Poetry, and Art Exploring Arab America\u003c\/em\u003e as well as \u003cem\u003eZoeglossia: A Community for Poets with Disabilities\u003c\/em\u003e. Tarik received an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Minnesota, and is currently an M.F.A. fellow in art, theory, practice at Northwestern University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.2 x 6.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 11, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763620675872,"sku":"9798888900895","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/92313505e00c990a8f9f229cf1e94a49.webp?v=1780237158","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/nazar-boy-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}