Please join Metonymy Press authors H. Felix Chau Bradley and Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch for the double launch of their latest books. The two will be joined by guest readers Pwaangulongii Dauod & George Abraham.<\/p>\n
PERSONAL ATTENTION ROLEPLAY<\/p>\n
Une jeune gymnaste s\u2019\u00e9prend d\u2019une co\u00e9quipi\u00e8re plus \u00e2g\u00e9e et plus talentueuse, tout en devant composer avec sa m\u00e8re d\u00e9bord\u00e9e. Une vingtenaire qui vient de d\u00e9couvrir son identit\u00e9 queer tente de g\u00e9rer deux relations intimes : une idylle anarchiste et une liaison avec un b\u00e9n\u00e9ficiaire de repas \u00e0 domicile atypique. La tourn\u00e9e d\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9 d\u2019un groupe de m\u00e9tal queer d\u00e9rape dans la chaleur moite du nord-est des \u00c9tats-Unis. Une auteure de listicles cod\u00e9pendante d\u00e9veloppe une obsession pour une cha\u00eene japonaise d\u2019ASMR.<\/p>\n
Les r\u00e9cits de Personal Attention Roleplay<\/em> sont anim\u00e9es par la solitude queer, la confusion m\u00e9tiss\u00e9e, le d\u00e9sespoir capitaliste et les pi\u00e8ges de l\u2019intimit\u00e9. Ayant lieu \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, Toronto et ailleurs, ils mettent en sc\u00e8ne des jeunes personnes asiatiques dans leur qu\u00eate de se voir refl\u00e9t\u00e9es \u2013 dans leur environnement, chez les autres et en ligne. Le langage pr\u00e9cis de Chau Bradley et son exploration de nos motivations les plus troublantes se distinguent dans ce premier ouvrage humoristique et ironique, dont les histoires \u00e9voquent l\u2019inhabituel tout en demeurant ancr\u00e9es dans le quotidien.<\/p>\n *Shortlisted for the 2021 TWUC Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the eighth annual Kobo Emerging Writer Prize.*<\/p>\n THE GOOD ARABS<\/p>\n This collection of poetry swings from post-explosion Beirut to a Parc-Extension balcony in summer–with verse and prose poems that ground the reader in place, language, and the body. Peeling and rinsing radishes. Dancing as a pre-teen to Nancy Ajram. Being drenched in stares on the city bus. The collection is an interlocking and rich offering of the speaker\u2019s communities, geographical surroundings both expansive and precise, and family both biological and chosen.<\/p>\n The Good Arabs<\/em> nous invite \u00e0 r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir aux cycles et aux sch\u00e9mas r\u00e9p\u00e9titifs qui caract\u00e9risent nos vies et celles de nos nations bris\u00e9es. Cette \u0153uvre in\u00e9dite cartographie les identit\u00e9s arabe et trans \u00e0 travers l\u2019immensit\u00e9 de l\u2019exp\u00e9rience ressentie dans un m\u00eame corps, le chagrin des personnes d\u00e9\u00e7ues par leur pays, et la crise des ordures au Liban. En fin de compte, elle nous montre comment nous pouvons aimer malgr\u00e9 la consternation, adorer l\u2019\u00e2cret\u00e9 et la laideur, et vivre notre multiplicit\u00e9 \u00e0 travers les espaces.<\/p>\n **Honorable Mention for the 2022 Arab American Book Award and Jury Selection for the Grand Prix du livre de Montreal**<\/p>\n ABOUT THE AUTHORS:<\/p>\n H. Felix Chau Bradley is a writer and musician living in Tiohti\u00e0:ke (Montreal). They are the author of Automatic Object Lessons<\/em>, a poetry chapbook, the Fiction Editor for This Magazine<\/em>et de Strange Futures, un club de lecture de litt\u00e9rature imaginaire. Personal Attention Roleplay<\/em> is their first book. They are also an acquisitions editor at Metonymy Press.<\/p>\n Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a writer living in Tiohti\u00e0:ke. Their work has appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry 2018<\/em> anthology, The New Quarterly, Arc Poetry Magazine<\/em>, and elsewhere. They were longlisted for the CBC poetry prize in 2019. Their book, knot body<\/em> (2020), published by Metatron Press, was shortlisted for the QWF Concordia First Book Award, and their second book, The Good Arabs<\/em>, was published by Metonymy Press in September 2021. They are the non-fiction editor at The Puritan<\/em>. They are also an acquisitions editor at Metonymy Press.<\/p>\n ABOUT THE GUEST READERS:<\/p>\n George Abraham (they\/\u0647\u0648) is a Palestinian American poet. Their debut poetry collection Birthright<\/em> (Button Poetry, 2020) won the Arab American Book Award and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. They are a board member for the Radius of Arab American Writers, and a recipient of fellowships from Kundiman, The Arab American National Museum, Sewanee Writers\u2019 Conference, National Performance Network, and more. They are currently co-editing a Palestinian global anglophone poetry anthology with Noor Hindi (Haymarket Books, 2024) and are a Litowitz MFA+MA student at Northwestern University.<\/p>\n