"I don’t know what to think about things unless we talk them out first." Inseparable friends Val-and-Tal are used to making their decisions together. But what happens when their choices become their own? CHOOSE THIS NOW, a novel-in-stories, illumin...
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Poet and essayist Zefyr Lisowski's prize-winning book GIRL WORK, a book-length meditation on sexual violence and feminized labor, centers hybrid-form and prose poems exploring haunting, labor, sexual trauma, and the assertion of a gender- nonconfor...
The English language debut from novelist Alvina Chamberland Through playful poetic prose, sharp social commentary and self-deprecating gallows humor LOVE THE WORLD OR GET KILLED TRYING dives into the mind of Alvina, a trans woman on the eve of turn...
BEAUTIFUL MACHINE WOMAN LANGUAGE extrapolates Catherine Chen's experiences as a data transcriptionist for the Amazon Echo in order to examine the emotional—often invisibilized—spaces occupied by the human workers who service AI and other emergent te...
A book about the impossibility/possibility of recording memory. A RECORD OF HOW THE MOTHER’S TEXTILE BECAME SOUND is a lamentation, a memory, a deconstruction and reconstruction of the author’s mother’s life through an examination of the complex mu...
A novel from award-winning poet Sandra Simonds. With the lyric beauty of the poet she is, Sandra Simonds gives us a fresh portrait of Assia Wevill, a woman previously conceived mostly as a consort, a homewrecker, or a femme fatale. Simonds' novel r...
Peñaredondo synthesizes poetry, lyric prose, fragmented creative nonfiction, and visual art. Angela Peñaredondo’s nature felt but never apprehended synthesizes poetry, lyric prose, fragmented creative nonfiction, and visual art. They voyage throug...
Winner of the 2021 Noemi Press Book Award in Poetry. Longlisted for the 2023 PEN America Open Book Award. GORGONEION explores the us or them mentality that has permeated U.S. culture since the mid 2010’s. Whether personal, political or historical, ...
CITY WITHOUT ALTAR is a poetry collection and play in verse that explores what it means to live, love, heal and experience violence as a Black person in the world. The titular play in verse that sits at the center of the book seeks to amplify the vo...
Originally released as a bilingual collection in 1989 by Stephen Kessler’s Alcatraz Editions, Juan Felipe Herrera wrote the poems of AKRÍLICA starting in 1977, occasioned by the energy and dialogue that he encountered upon meeting writer and co-cons...
Placed in the context of ongoing moral disaster, PLACE is a discussion of language and poetic usefulness, specifically how collective discourse survives the unimaginable through personal recourse. It examines the ideology of cultural superiority and...
DAMN NEAR MIGHT STILL BE IS WHAT IT IS is part autofiction, part memoir and travelogue, part road novel, part journal entry. Beginning in New York and winding first around the country, with stops in Kansas City and Colorado, then around the world, t...
The poems in NUCLEAR DEAL respond to the construction and breakdown of the US-Iran Nuclear Deal and the consequences that follow. Exploring the role of daily language in the formation of neocolonial relationships, Karimi erases—and in this process, ...
Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. SLIM CONFESSIONS is an image-text about digital intimacy and visceral material. A work of "autotheory," the book lays in parallel the history of "slime" as a vehicle for horror and entertainment with personal en...