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Poetry. Women's Studies. "Fingerspell" is a word familiar to those who use sign language; it means a word for which a sign doesn't exist, a word that must be spelled out using the ASL alphabet.I began learning sign language at the suggestion of my d...
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Fiction. California Interest. Joseph Kylander's childhood in early 20th century San Francisco has been shaped by his widowed father's obsessive photographic project and by his headstrong cousin Karelia's fanciful storytelling and impulsive acts. The...
Poetry. Women's Studies. In 1650 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a woman was hanged for "bewitching to death" her friend's child. The single, and remarkably brief, historical account includes this accusation by the child's nurse: "She did make much of ...
Fiction. Jillian Guzmán, who is nine years old at the beginning of the book, communicates through drawings rather than speech as she travels with her mother, Angie O'Malley, throughout the borderlands of Arizona and northwestern Mexico. Later she cr...
Poetry. Women's Studies. "From crushed bodies and crushed nouns, Kirun Kapur has composed an utterly original book. Unsparing, un-selfpitying, these poems make an imaginative whole from Hindu mythology, confessions from a hotline for sexual abuse, m...
Fiction. "Another title for Jacob Appel's engrossing new story collection could be what one character calls 'a conspiracy of fantasies.' Characters imagine rekindling romances from the distant past, pursue prestigious apprenticeships and dramatic de...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. "Abayomi Animashaun writes poignantly about the bittersweet experience of immigrants and refugees, the Others in the 'new paradise' that is America. For many, this land of opportunity has become a land of ...
Poetry. Latinx Studies. "Cante Jundo, or 'Deep Song,' is what Garcia Lorca called poetry attached to the rhythms and waves of a continent, its people, its waters, its history. In Alan Chazaro's PIÑATA THEORY, those resonances echo across the field '...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. "Jody Chan writes, 'have you ever found your specific wounds curled up in a song / written by someone else?' SICK is medicine and music. This book unearths a tenderness unknown to me before reading these poems and witnessing...
Poetry. "This collection is, from the get-go, parenthetical, by which I mean layered horizontally in voice, architecture, inflection, and sound—the sound of the ever-fading world, and the soundtrack of the human interior. The tone is a shimmering dr...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. "Some years ago, the poet Samantha Deal was in a car accident, which left her body altered. In SOMETHING OPENED, she returns to that scene continually, touching the scars in her own flesh and in the tree with such wonder...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. "Back in the day when KRS-One intoned—The Bridge is over!—he did not prefigure a poet from Queens of the fierce attitude and intellectual magnitude of Enzo Silon Surin. WHEN MY BODY WAS A CLINCHED FIST giv...
Poetry. At its center, CODE features a narrative sequence with three characters: a new father, a mother dying young from an inherited disease, and that mother's own DNA. In light of exciting new developments such as CRISPR that would allow us to alt...
Poetry. "'I know as much as I know,' Baumann writes, 'and still get out of bed.' And what trauma survivor has not marveled at this exact triumph? THORNWORK is a rigorous examination of the abundant hunger of both body and psyche to survive. This gen...
Poetry. "Death Spiral, which signifies the cartwheeling display of the American bald eagle as it plummets to the ground, is not only a poem in this excellent collection, but a metaphor for the current state of the country. These beautifully rendered...