BLK WTTGNSN - Mohammed Zenia Siddiq Yusef Ibrahim
BLK WTTGNSN redirects the language game of names toward the world’s verbalized character as wounding. Mohammed employs language’s world-structuring activities but Zenia also guides us toward the homophonic relation of our own individual word attachments. In this entanglement of language and thought, where blackness confronts the limits of philosophy, we find that words are both kiss and wound—irrevocably bound to the structures they seek to dismantle. Siddiq, Yusef, and Ibrahim remind us that poetry’s challenge is to inhabit these fractures, navigating a terrain of phono-tropes where every syllable carries the schizophrenic-weight of history, play, and hope.
—Sol Cabrini, author of Tgirl.jpeg
Read a review of BLK WTTGNSN at Paris Review.
ISBN 978-0-9816752-4-4
2024$18.95Mohammed Zenia Siddiq Yusef Ibrahim’s poems have appeared in E-flux magazine, the poetry project newsletter, apogee, columbia journal and Mizna. They are the author of the books Tel Aviv, James Baldwins Lungs in the 80s, and Black Bedouin (co-written with Tenaya Nasser). Of Sudanese descent, they were born in Sofia, Bulgaria and live in Brooklyn.
BLK WTTGNSN redirects the language game of names toward the world’s verbalized character as wounding. Mohammed employs language’s world-structuring activities but Zenia also guides us toward the homophonic relation of our own individual word attachments. In this entanglement of language and thought, where blackness confronts the limits of philosophy, we find that words are both kiss and wound—irrevocably bound to the structures they seek to dismantle. Siddiq, Yusef, and Ibrahim remind us that poetry’s challenge is to inhabit these fractures, navigating a terrain of phono-tropes where every syllable carries the schizophrenic-weight of history, play, and hope.
—Sol Cabrini, author of Tgirl.jpeg
Read a review of BLK WTTGNSN at Paris Review.
ISBN 978-0-9816752-4-4
2024$18.95Mohammed Zenia Siddiq Yusef Ibrahim’s poems have appeared in E-flux magazine, the poetry project newsletter, apogee, columbia journal and Mizna. They are the author of the books Tel Aviv, James Baldwins Lungs in the 80s, and Black Bedouin (co-written with Tenaya Nasser). Of Sudanese descent, they were born in Sofia, Bulgaria and live in Brooklyn.
BLK WTTGNSN redirects the language game of names toward the world’s verbalized character as wounding. Mohammed employs language’s world-structuring activities but Zenia also guides us toward the homophonic relation of our own individual word attachments. In this entanglement of language and thought, where blackness confronts the limits of philosophy, we find that words are both kiss and wound—irrevocably bound to the structures they seek to dismantle. Siddiq, Yusef, and Ibrahim remind us that poetry’s challenge is to inhabit these fractures, navigating a terrain of phono-tropes where every syllable carries the schizophrenic-weight of history, play, and hope.
—Sol Cabrini, author of Tgirl.jpeg
Read a review of BLK WTTGNSN at Paris Review.
ISBN 978-0-9816752-4-4
2024$18.95Mohammed Zenia Siddiq Yusef Ibrahim’s poems have appeared in E-flux magazine, the poetry project newsletter, apogee, columbia journal and Mizna. They are the author of the books Tel Aviv, James Baldwins Lungs in the 80s, and Black Bedouin (co-written with Tenaya Nasser). Of Sudanese descent, they were born in Sofia, Bulgaria and live in Brooklyn.
