New edition of this long out of-print classic of diasporic literature, featuring a foreword by Eunsong Kim, an afterword by Emgee Dufresne, and new endnotes by Bhanu Kapil. "Shame, perhaps, is related to domination, and to being dominated, but also ...
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Poetry. Introduction by Angela Hume. DEPOSITION | DISPOSESSION: CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE SUNDARBANS, the posthumously published work by Marthe Reed, responds to the ecological crises of the Sundarbans of south Bangladesh and India. The work "talks back...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. EXTRATRANSMISSION is a poetic critique of nationalism, patriarchy & gender embedded in an explosive & unapologetic trauma narrative. It begins with an exhaustive loud, & unapologetic section on killing bros, the perpetrators...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Diaspora. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. SWING AT YOUR OWN RISK, structurally designed to swing from one subject to the next, from one lyric utterance to the next, concerns itself with unpacking myths o...
Poetry. Latinx Studies. Art. Edited by Rosa Alcalá. NEW AND SELECTED POEMS OF CECILIA VICUÑA is a telling of old cultures, modern nation states and lives in exile. Rodrigo Toscano calls Vicuña's poetry "the outer out, beyond nation states, passed 'i...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Asian & Asian American Studies. Experimental Literature. Winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Poetry. Can a poetry seek to examine the erasure and reconstruction of a community history? Ching-In Chen...
Poetry. TELL ME EVERY ANCHOR EVERY ARROW traces simultaneous trajectories on a map that takes shape in real time: relationships, conversations, dream worlds, daily minutiae, and natural phenomena shift against a vivid panorama, spanning subways, Pac...
Poetry. Winner of the 2014 Kelsey Street Press FIRSTS! Contest. "Jennifer Pilch's DEUS EX MACHINA pulls the ache from a fractured century, stitching the bloom past artifice into an urgent, prismatic form unlike any we have seen. Each voice 'risks/tr...
Literary Nonfiction. Cultural Writing. Poetry. Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. "What is an avant-garde Asian American Poetic?" NESTS AND STRANGERS: ON ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN POETS offers an investigation into the contextual identities of dias...
Poetry. Winner of the 2014 Kelsey Street Press FIRSTS! Contest. "Jasmine Dreame Wagner's RINGS spirals through the alphabet with both velocity and precision. To read this poetry is to feel your pulse quicken, for Wagner demonstrates form as energy a...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Women's Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Etel Adnan is a Lebanese-American poet, visual artist, and essayist. Her rich body of work documents an unblinking witness to beauty in nature, human beings and art; to cruelty, e...
Poetry. Composed in a hybrid form that braids personal narrative with philosophical reflections, Sabrina Dalla Valle's book ponders the complexities of human communication and perception. It time-travels from the historical present to the ancient pa...
Poetry. AN ATLAS OF LOST CAUSES pulls the reader into a rich, internal world where perception is doubled and "stars are just dead light—falling behind schedule." As her poetic noir unfolds, quotidian detail accumulates as evidence of human scenarios...
Poetry. PERIL AS ARCHITECTURAL ENRICHMENT tests landscape as the subject of experience. Propelling awareness vertically and horizontally, it questions how limbs want to move in space, when convivial with treetops, views, and pollen. The poems greet ...