Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Essay. Translated from the French by Matthew B. Smith. SAYING POETRY is a pensive, speculative essay about the nature of poetry and is followed by an intricate, delicate, and interwoven poem about sleep that turns around...
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Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Disability Studies. This is an entertaining book of epistolary poems in prose which light up a young farmer's year through external and internal signs and cues, reaching out and reaching in, the lightness of being, loving, a...
Poetry. Translated from the French by Cynthia Hogue and Sylvain Gallais. Scuffing up the surface of history by scuffing up that of language, Nathalie Quintane manages to get at the myth of Joan of Arc from the inside, turning it from myth to immedia...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. In KITH, award-winning writer Divya Victor engages Indian-American diasporic culture in the twentieth century, via an autobiographical account that explores what 'KITH' might mean outside of the national bound...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. As the Third Reich advanced on Paris, Walter Benjamin entrusted his writings to the philosopher George Bataille. These eighty religious, lyric sonnets, produced in Benjamin's twenties in a sustained response to the suicide o...
Poetry. Translated from the French by Andrew Zawacki. In eight sections of eight poems each, Sébastien Smirou's SEE ABOUT constructs an eccentric menagerie—from grand lion to glow worm—that intertwines animal and human subjectivity. Poised between n...
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. African & African American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. This issue of Fence features new writing from: Chris Stroffolino, Raquel Gutiérrez, Urayoán Noel, Carmen Gimén...
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Winner of the Fence Modern Poets Prize, THE CODEX MOJAODICUS is an adventure in form, an ambitious effort to topographically notate the many intersections of hemispheric Spanish and English in the Americas. THE CODEX M...
Poetry. Translated from the French by Brian Evenson. PROUSTIENNES takes its lead from Erik Satie's Gnossiennes—each is a light, lively, take on some aspect of Proust's oeuvre. It touches lightly on asparagus, and equally lightly on the Dreyfus Affai...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. "The poems in this collection play word against words, expression against frame. Is language a form of thought-bondage? How can poems escape and bring us closer to the personal and the possibility of intimacy?...