A5, 54 pages, Black & white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2025

"presently i am alive is lush. Dalia Barghouty is on a road-trip somewhere inside a computer, a map, and her succulent on the dash board of her text. ’To be sexy is to be immediate & it’s sexy to say yes,’ she writes, her finger pressed on the economies of desire, womanhood, and capitalistic ideals of pleasure. She sorts through the admiration of body, of lust, of want, kicking stones all the while as she reflects, ‘my dad immigrated to the u.s. for this —.' Barghouty’s world is expansive, from the Midwest to the West, with Gemini moons and a funny, doe-eyed gaze stretching into Palestine. presently i am alive is hungry: for Palestine, screaming inside capitalism’s mazes and peaches as she roams through the American grid. Her collection is a rush of Lacanian paradigms, the American road-trip, and computerised worlds. Barghouty masterfully twists us along her grapevines, showing us the Dionysian summoning simmering in the mundane." - leena aboutaleb

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