”A crash course in 21st-century gender trouble, I have been waiting for a book like this forever, one that I could give to an ex-girlfriend, a secret crush, or a future self. Expansive, layered, unimpeachable, I sort of forgot poems could be like th...
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“Wendy Lotterman is a scientist of feeling, here presenting discoveries with surgical precision. If it's true that 'no good thing can be saved from a three-legged relay with the bad,' then what forms the third leg? Maybe it's these cool, discomfitin...
Lawrence writes, ‘I should've made this metal body out of steel or something opalescent,’ and then, ‘...everything is so heavy.’ U KNOW... illuminates a frictive space made of heavy (and multiplicitous) bodies, absorption, emanation, so much looking...
“In this remarkable book, lyric fabulist Manuel Paul López embeds parallel worlds that unite dreamtime and memory's ‘syllabus of smoke.’ Episodes relate the perils of youth and the absurdity of a ‘state-sanctioned self’ amid the social fevers here a...
Winner of Futurepoem's inaugural (2019) Other Futures Award. In an era of disintegration, frack and melt, any human who wants to move away from habits of harm must feel for new ways to inhabit PLANET DRILL, using our signature bodily function: lang...
“Here the mirror image of the almost hallucinatory, heart-rending loss of the familiar is literary defamiliarization. Arsanios both mourns and blasts apart the notion of the mother tongue, reminding us that for each "mother tongue" at least another ...
“This is a work of the slow, dark magic language can be when a writer lets words fall—in fragments or spiraling syntax—down into the wet loam of memory and presence, down into the susceptible body. Jaramillo’s example and invitation is to add to thi...
TRANSVERSE weaves between languages and forms, cultivating the questions and lacunae that emerge in their encounter. In the three parts that make up the book, music, mathematics, philosophical logic, and lyric convention come in and out of relation ...
Poetry. Hybrid Genre. Performance Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. THE NANCY REAGAN COLLECTION is a response to growing up queer and trans under the rise of HIV-AIDS. Crossing genres and generations, this performance novel remixes the AIDS archive through ...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Art. NEAR, AT follows the inherent strangeness of one's consciousness as it observes and comes into contact with the physical world. A sustained exploration of language, capitalism, gender, an...
Poetry. Art. "'G is a garden and seems simple,' we're told early on in this disarming, charming, and alarming book. With its text cleaved in two across right and left pages, G reads like an exchange between garden plots and the gardener's journal—ne...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Disability Studies. Parenting. Autism. Collaboration. Docu-poetics. "We think we know how our lives should be; we know how words fit together in a sentence. We use tests and benchmarks, charts and graphs, rules and spell...
Poetry. "SWOLE full y’all—of what flotsam language is when time comes to name the wrongs befalling (some of) us. A songbook of catastrophes—these, big as bodies, small as cities—Marchan’s reeling debut is the real thing. She washed her lines in Katr...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. 2017 Whiting Award Winner for Poetry. "I get this pinwheel relationship to wisdom & history when I read Simone White. I'm in her dream, but it's a remarkable solidly packed one informed by the quotidian ra...
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "Composed on bicycular excursions through San Francisco, Evan Kennedy's THE SISSIES aims to 'be subjugated' and speak as animal—wolf, ox, sheep, donkey. A ballpark seagull settling on the Giants' outfield. The casual, mannered...