{"product_id":"something-missing-from-this-world-paperback","title":"Something Missing from This World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eShook\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eZ?dan Xelef\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eBryar Bajalan\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold, multilingual anthology of Yazidi poetic voices.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen years have passed since 2014 and the seventy-fourth genocide of the Yazidis, a people who have faced ongoing persecution, displacement, and ethnic cleansing from their ancestral lands in the Kurdish regions. In the wake of this genocidal violence, new poetic voices have emerged in university campuses and IDP camps along the borders of Syria, Iraq, and Turkey, as well as from across the Yazidi diaspora. With globalizing forces compounding the erasure of their culture and traditions, the Yazidi poets in this multilingual anthology firmly stand their ground, their art a testament to Yazidi resistance and presence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis anthology joins in the poetic tradition of the Yazidis, which has historically preserved and documented instances of their traditions, dispossessions, and erasures. It is its own act of witnessing to recount the 2014 genocide for future generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslated from both Arabic and Kurmanji, the poets in this anthology affirm that they, indeed, will not let Yazidi voices be missed from this world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eZêdan Xelef\u003c\/b\u003e was born on Shingal Mountain in northern Iraq, in 1995, and arrived with his family to the Chamishko IDP camp in late 2014. Today he is an MFA student at San Francisco State University, and contributes to ingal Lives, an oral history project where he manages a team of Yezidi young people dedicated to collecting and preserving their culture's endangered oral tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBryar Bajalan\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, translator, and filmmaker currently pursuing a doctorate in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. With Shook, he has co-translated Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi's \u003ci\u003eA Friends Kitchen\u003c\/i\u003e (Poetry Translation Centre, 2023) and Zêdan Xelef's \u003ci\u003eA Barcode Scanner\u003c\/i\u003e (Kashkul Books, 2021\/Gato Negro Ediciones, 2022).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, translator, and assistant professor at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS). Her debut collection \u003ci\u003eDream State\u003c\/i\u003e appeared from Unnamed Press in 2024. She serves as the Founding Director of Kashkul and was the Founding Director of the Slemani UNESCO City of Literature. She is a 2022 NEA Fellow, the first ever working from the Kurdish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShook\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and translator who lives in Northern California. Their recent translations include Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi's \u003ci\u003eA Friend's Kitchen\u003c\/i\u003e, cotranslated from Arabic with Bryar Bajalan, Mikeas Sánchez' \u003ci\u003eHow to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, cotranslated from Zoque and Spanish with Wendy Call, and Conceição Lima's \u003ci\u003eNo Gods Live Here\u003c\/i\u003e, translated from Portuguese. Shook's film \u003ci\u003eA Barcode Scanner\u003c\/i\u003e, based on Zêdan Xelef's poem by the same name, won the 2020 Best Film for Tolerance Prize at the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 225\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 03, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42725998788671,"sku":"9781646053476","price":23.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/5e0264c0f8b1c7faa376101b64b7de66.webp?v=1765108816","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/something-missing-from-this-world-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}