The Utopians Diana McCaulay my father was strapping up

my father was strapping up my trunk

presenting gender-fluid

Including essays by: Romalyn Ante

Banipal 25 presents works by two prominent Libyan authors – the novelist Ibrahim al-Koni with an excerpt from the intriguing and challenging desert narrative The Seven Veils of Seth

to the Zhdanovchina and the Thaw

The Utopians Diana McCaulay my father was strapping upBuilt around a sequence written entirely with language from Thomas Mores Utopia, The Utopians invents a new world, from the pieces of the old one, to formally explore the contradictions of liberation. A series of letters to Thomas More, and a poem called THE WORLD about Utopias vexed escape, encircle the remixed no place as they elaborate Utopias double edge.