Poetry. Derek Mong's highly anticipated new poetry collection, THE IDENTITY THIEF, is a gathering of voices borrowed and voices lost. These illuminating poems explore how one learns—in an effort to cope, escape, survive, or atone—about the possibili...
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Poetry. FOR HUNGER, the follow-up to Margaret Ronda's award-winning first book, PERSONIFICATION, offers a fierce look at the interiors of motherhood, examining what it means to become a mother and lose a mother. Centering on hunger, these vivid and ...
Poetry. Each poem of I THINK I'M READY TO MEET FRANK OCEAN riffs on a Frank Ocean song, paying homage to the man but also investigating oceans, The Ocean, and the similarity between heartbreak and break beats by blending Frank Ocean's musical catalo...
Poetry. Set in the vernacular origins of modernity, LIVE AT THE BITTER END puts the racialized logic of 20th century aesthetics on trial. Mixing anonymous voices with the testimonies of figures such as Paul Cézanne, Charles Mingus, Emma Bardac,...
Poetry. Libby Burton's brilliant debut is the winner of the 2017 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. At the core of Libby Burton's highly anticipated debut poetry collection, SOFT VOLCANO, are the vivid details underpinning the relationships we hold dear...
Poetry. Agudelo's books have always been concerned with the relationship between worker and consumer, whether in the kitchens or in the neighborhood, but in THE BOSSES, his spectacular third outing, Agudelo's sharp focus finally lands on the seen an...
Poetry. Hadara Bar-Nadav's radiant new collection of poetry, THE NEW NUDITY, shocks everyday objects to life. In these chiseled, electrically-charged poems, a ladder, wineglass, and spine ignite into being. With a nod to Francis Ponge, Gertrude Stei...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Elyse Fenton's follow-up to her critically acclaimed first book furthers the great themes of women in wartime. From intimate meditations on birthing, motherhood, and parenting in a time of war, to its explorations of the fra...
Poetry. African American Studies. Winner of the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, selected by D.A. Powell. Cortney Lamar Charleston's debut collection looks unflinchingly at the state of race in 21st Century America. Today, as much as ever before,...
Poetry. Allison Titus's newest poetry collection, THE TRUE BOOK OF ANIMAL HOMES, is obsessed with animal and human alike, and how each one of us makes our home in the stations we hold—from the wilds of southern brambles to a desk in an office cubicl...
Poetry. At the heart of acclaimed poet Catherine Pierce's much-anticipated third book, a powerful tornado churns, spinning out poems of disaster and love, of sirens and wrecked landscapes, of warnings heeded and not. These poems stare down fear from...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Grief and desire cartwheel through the pages of Stephanie Rogers' debut collection. A girl rides on an outgrown tricycle, biting a necklace of candy hearts. A woman sleeps with a bullet under her tongue. In these vivid and c...
Poetry. What if all women try to Steal It Back? America, art, life. They're in Sephora, on Twitter, at McDonald's. They're single mothers and teachers, Catholic schoolgirls and martyrs. And they're all stealing it back. Sylvia Plath gets a Malibu be...
Poetry. In his third collection, Michael Robins unleashes the couplet to bring the pastoral past into the modern day, aligning images of grazing buffalo with those of torture and war. In the intersection between reality and imagination, with violenc...
Poetry. In a voice at once direct, musical, and surreal, these poems document the journey of a woman as she examines her role in both the political landscape of modern American culture and within the scope of her familial history. Addressing modern ...