The cloud notebook

Author / Creator

Smailbegovic, Ada, author

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"Ada Smailbegović's debut poetry collection, The Cloud Notebook is a long poem that unfolds from the narrative instability and fracturing that occurs from experiences of forced displacement and war...

"Ada Smailbegović's debut poetry collection, The Cloud Notebook is a long poem that unfolds from the narrative instability and fracturing that occurs from experiences of forced displacement and war, and also from configurations of gender and power. The poem assumes what Sara Ahmed refers to as a "migrant orientation" as a continuous problematic of narrative unfolding, rendering spaces of waiting, suspension, and a kind of fractal reoccurrence in which the fragment is held, revisited and re-performed in memory, as it often represents the only remainder of a dislocated world. Deeply engaged with the material and sensual qualities of language, The Cloud Notebook explores how material objects come to compose worlds, but also how such objects may fall out of disappearing worlds, carrying within them residues of the past. The Cloud Notebook is at once playful, probing, elegiac, humorous, and ceaselessly, spellbindingly metamorphic"--

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