CINDERS, Maria Sledmere’s U.S. debut, retells an old tale about lateness–how late is it, is it too late, what are the stakes of being too late if it is too late. This lateness, in Sledmere’s visionary lyric poems, pervades the structures and strictu...
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COMEBACK DEATH, Jennifer Soong’s third book, weaves its registers of what Soong names as “dread, gender, sarcasm, sublimation of pain, fruit, ambition, and fecundity” through an English which is not only polyvocal but uncannily porous. Its languages...
In Noah Ross’s new book THE DOGS, Ross opens the question of authority and possession in what he deems an illicit act of translation. THE DOGS may begin with Herve Guibert’s Les Chiens, but through multiple reiterations of translation, Guibert’s tex...
COMPANION brings together four new projects by Bay Area artists and writers whose work includes multiple genres and mediums: Rebeca Bollinger, Sofía Córdova, Pam Martin, and Yedda Morrison. Designed by Companion Platform. COMPANION includes: The Ar...
Poetry. MARNIE is the lyric remainder of being entirely obliterated and prodigiously disorientated across England and elsewhere. As such this poem is an experiment in different forms and genres interrupted and mismanaged, a deranged mélange of short...
Poetry. Hybrid Genre. Women's Studies. Gold Medal in the California Book Award in Poetry. TOTAL RECALL is, at its root, a memoir about memory. Yet in this chronology by Samantha Giles, the roots twist, double over and fold back on themselves in a na...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Environmental Studies. Collecting found texts, lyric poetry, and experimental prose, Eric Sneathen's SNAIL POEMS is an elegy born of the general catastrophe of late capitalism and the specific tragedy of personal loss. Commi...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Parenting. THE BRAID is a fever dream of pregnancy and early parenting in the era of the police state. Meditative and urgent, it interrogates the idealized portrait of mother and child to wind up somewhere much messier. A lo...
Poetry. In PORTRAIT OF DOOM, Marie Buck creates a cast of angsty heroes who speculate on their own bodies and the fucked-up, ever-shifting world around them. The characters suffer their fates and wait for an opening, a site for confronting the cops,...
Poetry. Fiction. THE UNDYING PRESENT, Syd Staiti's remarkable debut, unfolds in a time not unlike ours, in a city between worlds, in the space between bodies, in the camera's flat gaze and the eyes of a crowd that exceeds it. Robin Tremblay-McGaw wr...
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "With an enormous sense of hope checked by doubt fit to match it, Evan Kennedy demonstrates the heroic in a contemporary landscape. Not only are the proportions somehow believable (huge demands in manageable measure), but the s...
Poetry. "There are writers who don't split head & heart, and there's at least one who works right in the tension of that tension: Stephanie Young. Look for her new book URSULA OR UNIVERSITY to take us well away from the split, even as she is pulled ...