Prinzenbad by Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç, translated by Özgecan Kesici-Ayoubi À L'Instar De in spite of our history

in spite of our history of distress

uncompromising book exploring slavery

’ – David Morley

Helen Thomas was widowed when her husband

Prinzenbad by Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç, translated by Özgecan Kesici-Ayoubi À L'Instar De in spite of our historyPrinzenbad by Ozan Zakariya Keskinkl, translated by zgecan Kesici Ayoubi, is a formally dexterous, politically charged collection that blends lyric, prose, and autofictional modes to interrogate identity, surveillance, migration, and desire. Drawing on Islamic, diasporic, queer, and pop cultural reference points, the poems enact a poetics of refusal and reclamation, at once intimate and defiant. Keskinkl's language is inventive and polyglot, weaving