Poetry. BERLIN POEMS is the story of an interlinguistic love affair set against an indelible cityscape, an archaeology of unrequited passion, a frenzied attempt to remember against the inevitable flux of time. In it, language is at once a failure (i...
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Poetry. California Interest. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. 2019 Over the Rainbow Booklist Selection for Nonfiction. PARA LAS DURAS: UNA FEMENOMONOLOGÍA LESBIANA / FOR THE HARD ONES: A LESBIAN PHENOMENOLOGY, originally published i...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Translated from the Latvian by Jayde Will. Inga Pizāne captures a vibrant inner and outer life that moves seamlessly between the domestic landscape of the home and the streets of the city. In poems that are spare and precise...
Poetry. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. "Julie Marie Wade's SAME-SEXY MARRIAGE does not succumb to the gravitational forces of the quotidian—the 'respectable' marriage or the 'dignified' jet-setting life. Instead, this remarkable novella in verse ...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. This new printing has French flaps. "Julie Marie Wade's lush post-confessional poems are unabashed in their desire, tentative then bold in their knowledge. They're sparkly talismans to transform and transport us, delicacies ...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Translated by David Colmer. Dutch writer Edward van de Vendel, well-known for his young adult novels and children's books, explores the thrills and chills of adolescent love in these tender, playful, passionate poems. From t...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. 2019 Over the Rainbow Booklist Selection for Nonfiction. Poets Audre Lorde and Pat Parker first met in 1969; they began exchanging letters regularly f...
Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated by Stephen Watts and Golan Haji. "In Golan Haji's poems and prose-poems, fable and myth are incised into history and contemporanaeity, al-Ma'arri's verses are re-inscribed upon the Odyssey, made to reflect ...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Translated from the Lithuanian by Rimas Uzgiris. Ilzė Butkutė's poems are peopled with dwarves and lovers, magicians and cats, who navigate both the daylight and the darkness of life and relationships, trying not to stumble....
Poetry. Drama. California Interest. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. "Parker stayed woke to black suffering, violence against black bodies—especially those of black women—to the suffering engendered by multiple, egregious oppress...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Women's Studies. In the Jewish tradition, Lilith's punishment for rejecting Adam and disobeying God is to give birth to one hundred demons at twilight every night. These demons travel the land, killing newborns and wreaking h...