Pith • Print + E-book

Details

• Winner of the 2019 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize
• Saddle-stitched, risograph cover, 48 pages, 5″ x 7.25″, FSC-certified paper
• Purchase allows three interactive PDF or EPUB downloads
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Praise

“Pith stands out for the very ways it resists rounding out as a whole. Hollows run the center of the manuscript as though it needed bird bones in order to move around. If place is an import factor of the political, these poems surround the dark center of placelessness. These poems then must find a rooted zone w/in single words, in whatever language be it Kurdish or English of Internet vernacular.”
        –Carolina Ebeid

“Tracy Fuad’s PITH ghosts the process of learning a language—of Kurdish, of the Internet, and by proxy, of English. Of the ancient, of the ever-new, of the dominant monstrosity. The poet-speaker is suspended in a fantasy world, but this is not to say she fantasizes: the fantasy has always existed outside of the self, outside of agency. If poetic dissociation lacks detection of time/space, and therefore logic, we find it possible to overhaul those classical poetry oppressors of old. We are born again. And again and again and again and again.”
        –Diagram

“This spoke to me. Day-after-day, emails—I get it. And for the rest of the day, I wondered where God fit into all this technology and war of scorched earth?”
        –The Poetry Question

Author

Tracy Fuad is the author of DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD DAD (TxtBooks, 2019) and the chapbook Imagined State, which won the 2019 Baltic Writing Residency contest. Her work has appeared in POETRY, Best New Poets, Washington Square Review, Bennington Review, and the Boston Review’s anthology *What Nature* (MIT Press, 2018), and she was the winner of Pacific Literary’s 2018 Poetry Contest. Her writing has been supported by fellowships and residencies from Hedgebrook, Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, and the Vermont Studio Center. She lives in Iraqi Kurdistan, where she teaches English at a public university.

Artwork

Cover by LK James.