Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Translated by Sarah Riggs. An arresting new translation of poems, originally written in French, by one of our greatest philosopher poets. On October 27, 2003, Etel Adnan received a postcard from poet Khaled Najar, whom s...
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Poetry. California Interest. A mesmerizing exploration of the intensity and power of volcanoes in personal, geologic, and spiritual time. PERSONAL VOLCANO explores the history of volcano-related catastrophes worldwide, meditating on ecopoetics and c...
Poetry. Women's Studies. A book-length poem that grapples with the global and the globalized, bringing urgently needed visionary reflection to our tumultuous world. WHAT I KNEW engages activities and knowledge that can't be mined or verified by sear...
Poetry. Disability Studies. A moving poetic account of grief and record of post-traumatic stress after the loss of a parent. Written during an autistic breakdown after his father's sudden death, Chad Sweeney's visionary elegy for the living occupies...
Poetry. Art. A debut collection of playfully irreverent ekphrastic poems inspired by the author's engagement with art, architecture and music. ACTION IN THE ORCHARDS explores ekphrastic poetry and its possibilities through experiences and encounters...
Poetry. Women's Studies. A book of unruly love poems about complicated sexuality, precocity, and inheritance. Working from the sticky interface of property and sex, Stephanie Young takes up the question of passing when narrow definitions of family o...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. An irreverently tender profile of Black trans life surviving & thriving during contemporary political turmoil. THE BLACK CONDITION FT. NARCISSUS is preemptive memoir, documenting the begin...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award. Brian Teare offers a new kind of nature poem for the late Anthropocene in these plein air meditations on the pleasures and perils of everyday life during global climate change. DO...
Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Women's Studies. A vernacular debut that uncompromisingly journeys towards its sole destination: the decolonization of the imagination.In INVASIVE SPECIES, Marwa Helal's searing politically charged poems touch on our ...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Afterword by Elena Basile. JE NATHANAËL is an endangered text. Neither essay nor poem nor novel nor sex-show, what it takes from language it gives back to the body.In JE NATHANAËL, first published in 200...
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Film. A philosophical and epigrammatic meditation on a body immersed in language, history and place, refracted through film, photography and architecture. The body of the filmmaker is itself a discrepancy. This may be one o...
Poetry. Women's Studies. A love letter to language even as it drifts away, this lyric collection tracks the emotive landscape of a lived experience.LIVINGRY is anxious lyric, marking the witchy daily as spun by a woman processing grief, vexation, fe...
Literary Nonfiction. Essays. LGBTQIA Studies. California Interest. A poet's capacious and visionary sequence of essays exploring language and aesthetics in contemporary society.LYRIC MULTIPLES comprises four essays written over the last decade. The ...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. A distinctive, book-length poem written over the course of a year. A YEAR FROM TODAY traverses a many-layered urban terrain—social, political, poetic, animal—in a form more raw than a diary, weightier than a...