Colleen Louise Barry’s debut collection of poems, COLLEEN, is a gleeful exercise in self-documentation. Without taking themselves too seriously, these often funny and wise poems ask big questions about the nature of reality. They mix mystery with ca...
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Poetry. Translated by Julia Guez and Samantha Zighelboim. In Luis Chaves's EQUESTRIAN MONUMENTS, the stately figure of a former president, Leon Cortés, is counterbalanced by a cast of mock-heroic or non-normative foils: a cross-dresser, a singleton,...
Poetry. Christine Shan Shan Hou's THE JOY AND TERROR ARE BOTH IN THE SWALLOWING offers a new mythology for our "smooth and violent era."Together, these poems map a constellation of desire, addressing "the female pleasure gap," the exhilaration of su...
Poetry. Art. Lawrence Giffin's UNTITLED, 2004 is anchored in encounters with the works of the late artist, Agnes Martin. Meditations on her final painting provide the occasion for a poem—about death and birth, history and chance, love and exploitati...
Poetry. Women's Study. California Interest. A redacted atlas of longing, a transcontinental tour guided by eros, ABEYANCE, NORTH AMERICA is an exploration of submission and desire. Moving between real and imaginary spaces, the poems comprise a trave...
Poetry. Women's Studies. A study of the ways we replicate and resist oppressive social structures, Emily Brandt's FALSEHOOD is a biting, earnest, and sometimes playful reckoning. Stuck in the suburbs of White America, Brandt's speaker scratches the ...