Poetry. Latinx Studies. In this collection of poems, written during and immediately after two years on the road as United States Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera reports back on his travels through contemporary America. Poems written in the heat o...
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Poetry. From acclaimed Nigeria-born, Brooklyn-based poet Uche Nduka, a book of love poems written with compact elegance and vivid eroticism. FACING YOU is a collection of love lyrics, as well as an exploration of what goes into making the public and...
Poetry. In her first full-length collection, Sophia Dahlin fashions a dazzling array of queer pastoral lyrics as a means to interrogate received notions of the romantic sublime. By turns funny, passionate, and erotic, the poems of NATCH express an i...
Poetry. The third full-length collection from Bay Area poet Alli Warren, LITTLE HILL comprises seven long poems written with propulsive prosody in a daybook fashion, examining our present, politically charged moment. These poems are at once energeti...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. California Studies. Foreword by devorah major. Edited by Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foye, and Tate Swindell. Collected for the first time, the complete surviving works of a major African-American Beat Surre...
Poetry. DEER TRAILS is a strongly elegiac evocation of a San Francisco that lies buried under its contemporary urban landscape, but can still be found peeking through. Native American and native San Franciscan Kim Shuck is the city's seventh poet la...
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. THE GRAVE ON THE WALL is a memoir and a book of mourning, a grandson's attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather's lifelong struggle. Award-winning poet Brandon Shimoda has crafted a lyric...
Poetry. A scion of the New York School, Edmund Berrigan grew up in and around poetry. The follow up to CAN IT!, his well-received memoir, MORE GONE is his first full-length collection in a decade. Written in a distinctive mix of New York quotidian a...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Edited by Garrett Caples, Derek Fenner, David Rich, & Joseph Torra. Introduction by Joseph Torra. Afterword by David Rich. Beginning in the 1950s until his untimely de...
Poetry. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. CRUEL FUTURES is a witchy confessional and wildly imagistic volume that examines subjects as divergent as Alzheimers, Medusa, mumblecore, and mental illness in sharp-witted, taut poems dense with song. Chroni...
Poetry. Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. INVOCATION TO DAUGHTERS is a book of prayers, psalms, and odes for Filipina girls and women trying to survive and make sense of their own situations. Writing in an English inflected with Tagalog and S...
Poetry. Neruda's long-overlooked third book of poetry, critical in his poetic evolution, now translated into English for the very first time!VENTURE OF THE INFINITE MAN was Neruda's third book, published in 1926, two years after his widely celebrate...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Winner of the 2017 California Book Award for Poetry. Winner of a 2018 American Book Award. This is truly revolutionary poetry. A vortex of images, observations, inspired leaps and free associations spills ...
Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. In December 1981, Mumia Abu-Jamal was shot and beaten into unconsciousness by Philadelphia police. He awoke to find himself shackled to a hospital bed, accused of killing a cop. He was convict...