Tressing Motions at the Edge of Mistakes

Poetry

Tressing Motions at the Edge of Mistakes

Poems
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The newest entry in the Multiverse series, Tressing Motions at the Edge of Mistakes is a debut collection activated by sampling, troubling, and trespassing.
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The newest entry in the Multiverse series, Tressing Motions at the Edge of Mistakes is a debut collection activated by sampling, troubling, and trespassing.

This is a book of what its teenage nonspeaking autistic author Imane Boukaila, calls “tacit treasures.” Where manifestos encounter poems and raps encounter essays, the lyric constellations that mark this debut sing in opposition to those “troubled-abled” who would coerce and control disabled lives.

Boukaila offers another way: her “LOL tressed philosophy,” her truth. This liberatory philosophy exists at the periphery, thresholding, in all the places where life opens toward neurodivergent revolution. “Treasures thrive in open spreading spaces,” she writes. From the muddy streams shimmering with trout, to the space storms in the starry skies, to the tressing that exists between minds, Boukaila offers us a chance to make mistakes, to be messy, to learn and unlearn the languages we use to survive.

Readers seeking “treasures yet to be uncovered” will find this and more in this expansive collection.

Keywords: 
Toronto; Canada; Multiverse; Gen Z; autism; nonspeaking; trout; ecology; revolution; liberation; feminism; Neurodiversity; neurodivergence; hybrid poetry; essays in verse; prose poetry; ableism; experimental poetry
ISBN:
9781639550784
Publish Date: 
01/23/2024
Pages: 
120
Size: 
8.5 × 5.5 × 0.25 in
Weight: 
7 oz
Author

Imane Boukaila is the author of Tressing Motions at the Edge of Mistakes and a moving nomad thinker, daring to tress hope in tormented voids. She is a nonspeaking autistic poet and the co-founder of Hear Our Minds, an art movement motioning autistic revolution. She lives in Toronto.

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