{"product_id":"poeticality-jeffrey-sacks-9781531512330","title":"Poeticality: In Refusal of Settler Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Will you not memorize a little poetry to halt the slaughter?\" the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish wrote. Darwish's poetic statement points to world-evacuating and genocidal violences--in a triangulation of Palestine, Iraq, and the American settler state--as his language recalls us to a sonority in utterance and acts of refusal in collective form. Through readings of Arabic and Arab poetry, art, translation, and philosophy, Jeffrey Sacks illumines an indetermined, non-accumulative, non-propertied manner of lingual doing--across post-Ottoman topographies and states, and in excess of any single language--where language is a practice in sociality, the social is indistinct from the ontological, and being is a poetic mode--what this book calls \"poeticality.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoeticality\u003c\/i\u003e studies the Lebanese-American poet and painter Etel Adnan, the Iraqi poet and translator Khālid al-Maʿālī, philosophers in the Arabic peripatetic tradition, and writings of Karl Marx, Paul Celan, Walter Benjamin, and others, to demonstrate a sense of form wholly other than what is advanced in self-determined social existence, linguistic self-understanding, and philosophical self-representation--a manner of address and a social pose, which Sacks summarizes under the heading \"settler life.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSettler life--a form of life, a practice of reading, and an asymmetric distribution of social destruction--asserts itself as a generalized and regulating attack upon Black and Indigenous life, and upon all forms of nonwhite, non-Christian, non-heteronormative existence. \"Everything is in the language we use,\" the Oglala Lakota poet Layli Long Soldier has written. This book--learning from Long Soldier's observation and with Darwish's sense of the poetic--affirms the demand for Indigenous sovereignty, in Palestine, in Turtle Island, and elsewhere, a demand which, through the collective acts occasioned in it, decomposes and deposes all sovereign forms and all stately legalities, in refusal of settler life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeffrey Sacks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 153151233X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781531512330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/02\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Jeffrey Sacks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47136471089407,"sku":"9781531512330","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_18e4a379-6407-48d4-bfd4-cd14a5b646d0.jpg?v=1755023443","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/poeticality-jeffrey-sacks-9781531512330","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}