[11/01/25] Arjoon, Terrence: The Disinherited

Ugly Duckling Presse, paperback

Publication Date: November 1, 2025

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In The Disinherited, Terrence Arjoon’s first full-length book of poetry, several characters, historical personages, and actors appear in papier-mache’d masks peeking onto stage hastily from the wings. Composed of translations from Gérard de Nerval, pastoral pastiches, slant rhymes, off-sonnets, and malapropisms, Arjoon and his merry wanderers take a meandering stroll through diaspora and exile, towards something richer, denser, and more strange.

Terrence Arjoon is the author of the chapbooks 36 Dreams and Acid Splash, or into Blue Caves, published with 1080press. He is a co-editor at 1080press, which is a freely distributed offset and letterpress poetry project. His work has appeared in The Poetry Project Newsletter, Tagvverk, Smooth Friend, Works & Days, Screen Slate and is forthcoming in an anthology from Spiral Editions. He was the 2022 recipient of the Amiri Baraka Scholarship at the Naropa Summer Writing Program. He is currently the book-buyer and event curator at 192 Books.