A Barcode Scanner

Zêdan Xelef

• Other Authors Bryar Bajalan (Translator)
• Title

  A Barcode Scanner

• Date 2022
• Publisher Mexico City, Mexico: Gato Negro Ediciones
• Description 44 p; 6.5 in; color ill.
• Language English, Arabic
• Collections Permanent Collection
• Summary

  In stark, contemporary language that bears the influence of the Êzîdî oral tradition, the poems in Zêdan Xelef’s debut offer a searing indictment of the commodification and dehumanization of the displaced. Translated from the Arabic by Bryar Bajalan and Shook, A Barcode Scanner’s wide cast features IDP camp managers and UN representatives alongside literary forebears like Anne Sexton and pornstar Sasha Grey, in poems that recount tragic camp fires, text message romances, and the drudgery of everyday life for the survivors of Daesh’s 2014 genocide of the Êzîdî.
  Avión, named after Mexican estridentista Kyn Taniya’s 1919 book by the same name, is a new project that seeks to promote the innovation and internationalism espoused by Mexico’s historical avant-gardes, creating a transportation, a flight if you will, in between landwatches mostly from other languages into Spanish but also across inter-pollination of different emancipatory imaginariums, furies, directions and tongues (Gato Negro Ediciones). 

• Tags Poetry, Arabic poetry, Arabic literature