Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. JUSTICE PIECE // TRANSMISSION is a perverse and anxious attack on the concept of justice, asking "If I am the symptom, what is the cause?" Ranging from The Rocky Horror Picture Show to feminist sci-fi, white supremacy to the...
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Poetry. California Interest. Dwelling in the interstices, IN BRAZEN FONTANELLE AFLAME is an ornate collapse, a sumptuous yet horrified exploration of the violence inhered in specific landscapes and ecosystems by the logics of capital. It is an attem...
Poetry. California Interest. THE NEXT CRYSTAL TEXT connects the glittering consumption of gems to the brutal exploitation of their production, undermining our cultural myths of beauty, wealth, and the feminine. These multiform poems accrete language...
Poetry. Feminist data maps. Perverse technical networks. How do we navigate the vertigo between technology and our bodies? CONTRAVERSE is a guide and a counter-spell for the nexus of big business, big tech, and the state that situates our lives. Shi...
Poetry. Latinx Studies. THE EASY BODY is a love letter from hell. In these poems, a fiery account of loss combines with a multi-lingual prophecy of stained, stunning beauty. In deep suffering and impure solidarity, the Latinx, matrilineal, colonized...
Poetry. DISASTER is an investigation into what is possible when everything goes perfectly wrong; when planes crash, trains derail, and structures collapse. The details are put forward as a way to examine how each disaster is mourned as a catastrophi...
Poetry. SLABS is a collection of poetry dealing in and out of the body through various sites including; home, memory, books, and ritual. It is a meditation on self care, sexuality, and identity through a dis/embodied subject in the water, the home, ...
Poetry. FACE DOWN is an abject, fantastic inquiry into forging new ways of relating, set against the brutal materialist realities of empire. It focuses on gender, economics, opportunity, sexuality, and all the distinctive devices of social stratific...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. LGBT Studies. Hybrid Genre. 2017 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Transgender Poetry. THE ROMANCE OF SIAM: A POCKET GUIDE is a subverted travel guide that interrogates the desire white people have to lose and...
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. LGBT Studies. OIL AND CANDLE traces imagined rituals, failed rituals, and magical objects of Santería in confronting issues of race, warfare, and the precarity of Latino lives. Object-oriented, OIL AND CANDLE localizes...
Poetry. LGBT Studies. Navigating the subtle ways language (con)forms the body, LEVITATIONS spans childhood, community, and love to explore how we might break free from the cultural demands of normalcy. Imagined as "a preface for the work to come," L...
Poetry. Art. Silk screen printed glow-in-the-dark covers. Ebenkamp cracks open the mundane with jaded humor and uncanny horror. This collection of poems is densely packed and of psychedelic duration. "Between boredom and shock we oscillate" in a dat...
Poetry. California Interest. What gathers in the pages of IT'S NIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO BUT IT'S SUNNY IN OAKLAND is a snapshot of a poetic moment. This book is a candid flash of the ever-evolving politics, relationships, and forms that make up this p...
Poetry. LGBT Studies. Politics. Ecopoetics. Covers letterpressed by the author. Mycelium is the largest organism on the planet. It is the collective root structure from which all mushrooms emerge. It lives three inches under the ground and can span ...
Poetry. Art. California Interest. A poetry book in the form of 112 divination cards, AS THEY FALL is a vivid, sensual journey through the haunted landscape of the self. Ivy Johnson's fragmented, handwritten poem takes its shape as a deck of cards an...