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Deep Vellum, paperback

Publication Date: June 24, 2025

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TERROR COUNTERis 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 COUNTERasks: 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?