{"product_id":"extratransmission-9780932716897","title":"EXTRATRANSMISSION","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoetry. LGBTQIA Studies. EXTRATRANSMISSION is a poetic critique of nationalism  patriarchy \u0026amp; gender embedded in an explosive \u0026amp; unapologetic trauma narrative. It begins with an exhaustive loud  \u0026amp; unapologetic section on killing bros  the perpetrators of patriarchy before entering a narrative of how traumatic brain injury occurs to bodies in modern warfare. The text labors over how memory constructs our identity  our constant experience and how that can be destroyed in one of many empty military moments. The language pushes beyond conventional lyric and incorporates angry letters  prose pieces  a love poem  \u0026amp; intimate conversation while maintaining both an intense energy and constant movement. In resistance to how patriarchy and U.S. militarism produce the hypergendered subject  the text generates a genderqueer cyborg whose language comes together to form EXTRATRANSMISSION a book that explicates how patriarchy  capitalism  \u0026amp; nationalism form the high rising global city that will tear your heart out.  \"This is demanding prose that scrapes at the bones of psychic worlds. Theres nothing accidental about a signature injury  Andrea Abi-Karam avers  and their searing interrogation of the wounds of militarization  masculinity  and trauma is unflinching yet implosive. From #metoo to war machines  every once-removed scale of violence comes crashing into each other  leaving the reader raw with implication. We are haunted with ledgers that can never be balanced.\"--Jasbir Puar  \"As the war machine creates new casualties and new ways to produce them  Andrea Abi-Karam creates a new language and a new form to express their desire to shake the American public out of its lethargy. They bring their generosity of heart mixed to a real courage  as they do the opposite of what we do: Andrea goes into it  as we say  they look in the face the incredible suffering that weapons which replaced rain shower on the people of the world. Pain is singular  it reaches its targets one at a time  and they seem to follow every soldier hurt as well as every individual they themselves killed or maimed. In these days of indifference to naked reality  Andrea dares be a writer of humanism  they dare to remind us that each one of us is somehow responsible for everything that is done in our name.\"--Etel Adnan  \"We live in a country that has mastered the art of using our brains against us. I look to poets who comprehend this and employ new vocabularies and forms to emblazon paths--new neural hallways lead to threshold decisions about how to live our day to day lives. Andrea Abi-Karam has written a singular and imperative text landing on a way to acquire our maximum potential as rebel beings who can kill coercion dead so we can move together beyond this one type of experience  perhaps the most threatening  and frightening  act we can take as beings.\"--Stacy Szymaszek  \"Andrea distills so much rage \u0026amp; anger into a most ferocious concentration in these poems. As read I could feel them placing a switchblade into my hand  showing me how to use it as KILL BRO \/ KILL COP repeated in my mind.\"--Adelaide  East Bay Booksellers  \"Oh. My. God. Andrea is the genderqueer cyborg of my dreams  probably of your dreams  and definitely of bros nightmares. This is their critique of nationalism  patriarchy  and capitalism. I went to sleep thinking of horse hooves and woke up thinking of how memory informs all I do.\"--Kyliemax  Pegasus Books\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67931059257397,"sku":"ByrdShop_093271689X","price":346.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780932716897.jpg?v=1794211726","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/extratransmission-9780932716897","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}