Join us for a special performance marking the release of Fargo Nissim Tbakhi’s debut poetry collection, TERROR COUNTER. This hour-long performance, with support by Niki Afsar, will take place two times, followed by a DJ set by Peyman Allahvirdizadeh. Books will be available courtesy of Lost City Books throughout the event.

A debut collection of poems which acts against the many languages–interpersonal, legal, literary, rhetorical–constricting the lives and meanings of Palestinians, TERROR COUNTER 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.

Praise for TERROR COUNTER: “Anyone who understands poetry as a search for liberation, whatever the level of that liberation, will hold TERROR COUNTER as compass… Fargo Nissim Tbakhi is a Palestinian poetic being of the mostnatural order.” –Fady Joudah, author of […]

“Tbakhi’s poems are ruthless, but at their core, they aspire to a kind of utopian vision, asking how, amid the ongoing threat of genocide and displacement and countless other expressions of terror, people can continue to love one another.” –Vulture Magazine, “28 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This Summer”

“This book will crack your heart open. Let it, let the light come pouring in.” —Lena Khalaf Tuffaha,author of Something About Living

Buy TERROR COUNTER HERE