{"product_id":"9781531512323","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW Poeticality : In Refusal of Settler Life by Jeffrey Sacks","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 31\/01\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\"Poeticality studies the Lebanese-American poet and painter Etel Adnan, the Iraqi poet and translator Khalid al-Ma?ali, 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.\"Settler 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\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369017651573,"sku":"9781531512323","price":100.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781531512323.jpg?v=1763551746","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781531512323","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}