“In STANDARD AMERICAN ENGLISH, writer and multidisciplinary artist Elisabeth Houston brings her readers deep into the world of baby, a persona she has been developing in performance contexts for nearly a decade. The poems in this debut collection em...
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2nd Edition, with 9 new drawings by Etel Adnan. Originally published in 1986, JOURNEY TO MOUNT TAMALPAIS is at once a deep study and a love letter of and to a mountain. A prose essay written with the lyricism and precision of a master poet, Wendell ...
BODY WAS is a book-length poem that begins with the death of a father and ends with the birth of a child. It is a bold and innovative poem that works on principles of improvisation, like those of Keith Jarrett and other jazz greats, where the reader...
Poetry. Native American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. VESTIGIAL (from the Latin vestigium, meaning "footprint") tracks a poetic narrative across multiple chronologies and scales—from the personal to the geologic. Following her debut collection RESTLESS ...
Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. Music. Translated by Olivia C. Harrison and Teresa Villa-Ignacio. Artwork by Julie Simon-Titecat. Hocine Tandjaoui's poetic memoir, CLAMOR, is a gripping testimonial to the transnational solid...
Poetry. Women's Studies. "The forming of the five senses is a labor of the entire history of the world down to the present."—Karl MarxHEARING is the long-awaited second book in a series of collaborations by Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino organize...
Poetry. Fiction. Art. Children's Literature. OFF-WORLD FAIRY TALES marks the third collaboration between painter Susan Bee and writer Johanna Drucker, following their FABULAS FEMINAE (Litmus Press, 2015) and A Girl's Life (Granary Books, 2002)—a tri...
"In [Bosch's] enchanted garden no color line is drawn."—Commentary 106, Art Treasures of the Prado, 1954Poetry. Art. Joan Retallack's BOSCH'D—"fables, moral tales & other awkward constructions" is passionate, transgressive and, albeit obliquely, opt...
Poetry. Art. Photography. Middle Eastern Studies. "Beauty is back, rejoice!" So ends THE PAPER CAMERA, Youmna Chlala's flickering catalog of Beirut and other cities, where loss and longing are interspersed with vignettes of intimacy: family members...
Poetry. Drama. Film. Translated by Nathanaël. IN THE ENVIRONS OF A FILM collects together three previously untranslated works by Danielle Collobert, the author of MURDER and IT THEN. The works here, selected by the translator, see slowly, are scorin...
Literary Nonfiction. Drama. Performance Studies. Art. Winner of the 2016 Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers. THE TRIUMPH OF CROWDS is a lecture as performance, or performance as lecture, distributed between the voices an...
Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the Arabic by Michael Sells. BEWILDERED contains new translations of Ibn al-'Arabī Tarjuman poems in modern poetic English. The translator of a highly praised volume of pre-Islamic qasidas, Desert Trac...