about:blank Poems
about:blank Poems by Tracy Fuad is a debut poetry collection published by University of Pittsburgh Press on October 19, 2021. This 96-page work explores themes of alienation and dissociation through a unique lens, reflecting the author’s relationship with Iraqi Kurdistan. The title, referencing the universal URL for a blank web page, sets the stage for a probing examination of longing and belonging, as Fuad navigates the complexities of language and place.
Readers will find a formally inventive approach in these poems, which blend humor and poignancy while interrogating various forms of communication, including internet chatrooms and Kurdish dictionaries. The collection captures the disorientation of contemporary existence, addressing the fragmentation inherent in the digital age. Through her exploration of identity and language, Fuad articulates the nuances of being caught between different worlds, offering insights into the experience of living in a globalized context.
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Gold Winner, 2022 Nautilus Book Award
In about:blank, Tracy Fuad builds a poetics of contemporary dissociation. Funny, plaintive, and cutting, this formally inventive debut probes alienation in place and in language through the author’s consideration of her own relationship to Iraqi Kurdistan. about:blank—the title of which is the universal URL for a blank web page—complicates questions of longing and belonging. Interrogating the language of internet chatrooms, Yelp reviews, and the Kurdish dictionary, the poems here leap surprisingly between subjects to find new meaning.
Written before and during the years the author spent living in Iraqi Kurdistan, the collection documents the alienation of being inside, outside, and between language(s) and the always-already terror of grammar. At once haunted and humorous, about:blank inhabits and exhibits the disorientation and fragmentation that is endemic to the internet era, and mourns the loss of a more embodied existence.
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