Poetry. Art. Part word-sculpture, part audio-visual disjunction, part illuminated manuscript, HG-THE LIQUID is a foray into the limits of the page, the edges of letter forms, and the physical relationship between the letter "P" and physique. Produce...
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Poetry. Fiction. Drama. Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. "Laura Vena's X/SHE: STARDRAPED consists of a series of overlapping journeys—spiritual, cultural, linguistic, cartographic, geographical, psychic—mapping onto what was and has become ...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Asian & Asian American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Performance Studies. "Ronaldo V. Wilson explodes all over the mouth of whiteness in LUCY 72 like Césaire stroking the Latin root 'niger,' courting its deran...
Poetry. "If you want to get a look at the future of American poetry (and feel excited about it), read this book. In these poems, Mark Faunlagui's speakers are at once sophisticated and disarmingly vulnerable; hedonistic and polymathic; aesthetically...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Film. Art. UMBILICAL HOSPITAL is a poetic ekphrasis of Leslie Thornton's Sheep Machine, part of her Binocular Series. Filmed in Saas-Fee, it shows a flock of sheep grazing next to the structural support of cab...
Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. This collection of luminous essays features swimming pools and poets, road trips and museums, family dinners and celebrity sightings. In a voice that is at once eccentric and ...
Poetry. Women's Studies. PLAYING MONSTER :: SEICHE is a book-length poem that incessantly dodges between two narratives: the speaker's childhood experiences with an abusive father and, as an adult, increasingly aggressive acts made toward her mother...
Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Birds, roses, arabesques, minarets, a city, and a different sky. In A TURKISH DICTIONARY, Andrew Wessels navigates an Istanbul of the present and an Istanbul of the past, tracing the redaction and restoration of langu...
Poetry. A collaborative text by two beloved poets, Cynthia Arrieu–King and the late Hillary Gravendyk, UNLIKELY CONDITIONS, "was written as a way to embellish and perpetuate a friendship." Of her process working with Gravendyk, Arrieu–King says: "We...
Poetry. "In single cigarettes sold on a city sidewalk, in 'not for individual sale' samples of drugs or beauty products hawked on the Internet, a gray economy blossoms all around us rerouting traditional channels of production and distribution. Krys...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. "For me this book is a companion, an aria to bodily discomfort and impossibility. I want to say more about the body of the writing as being Korean–American, 'post–colonial,' female — no, woman...
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Poetry. "Leif Haven's first book of poems, ARCANE RITUALS FROM THE FUTURE, resists having quotations picked out from it and set down to display the book's brilliance or beauty. This is to its credit—but why? The best way to think about the question ...
Poetry. Translation. Five French poets and five American poets walk into a bar... OK... OK. It was really a cultural institute that they walked into and spent a week translating each other's work. Or making new work together. Trading notes. Lounging...
Poetry. "Exquisite reach, this sweet sonneter high in our ear. The poems rise even when the 'the phone calls you back.' These six suites are a stunning gambol withal; what pleasure in Riggs's readerly intelligence, her rock-solid pleasure in the pos...
Poetry. "Antigone enters. Pesticides, eco-cide, a guiding conversation with Leslie Scalapino and the beloved dead. The drone poem and the brain-body of the dancer. Brenda Iijima gets at the horror of our capitalist daily: the nation as prison-indust...