"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...
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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...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. SIR intertwines the geographical and historical implications of race relations in Louisville, KY from the late 1800s to the present day. Through this lens, Hinkle meditates on motherho...
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...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Poetics. Essay. Art. Collaboration. Think of it as a multi-genre catalog of seriously humorous and grave responses to the crises of attention and value our human plurality of "we"s is so spectacularly prone to. Urgent in...
Poetry. Latinx Studies. BRIDGE OF THE WORLD maps multiple transits between mental, spiritual, and geographic topographies, pivoting on the experience of dislocation from Panama and Latinidad. This is a journey over bridges between inner and outer wo...
Poetry. Finalist for the NCIBA's Northern California Book Award in Poetry, 2017. Jean Day's DAYDREAM is a poetic interrogation, from the vantage point of a sonically minimalist and language-oriented form, of one's position in a world of simultaneous...
Poetry. Pacific Studies. California Interest. Asian & Asian American Studies. The polylingual works in A TRANSPACIFIC POETICS conceive ocean as consequence, map, identity, visibility, invisibility, and the embodiment of cultural imaginaries layered ...
Poetry. WELL WELL REALITY is a collection of poems written in collaboration by Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop over a number of years. The distinct voices of these two momentously prolific poets merge to create a new, lyric voice: a vast, plural assembla...
Poetry. Hybrid Genre. Native American Studies. Ecopoetics. Winner of the Gold Medal for the 2017 California Book Award in Poetry. Lush with elemental imagery, Aja Couchois Duncan's RESTLESS CONTINENT communes with a North America that speaks elegiac...
Drama. Poetry. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. Winner of the 2014 Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers. NON-SEQUITUR presents a chorus of figures and objects carrying on apparently unrelated conversati...