Literary Nonfiction. Native American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. GUARD THE MYSTERIES is a compendium of five talks presented by poet Cedar Sigo for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series. Retracing the ways in which he first encountered the realm of poetry,...
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Poetry. With exquisite detail and humble sensibilities, Geoffrey Nutter's sixth collection of poetry offers myriad delights in language and the imagination. In cityscapes, nature, books, and color, we find respite in the complexities of the commonpl...
Poetry. In HOARDERS, Durbin deftly traces the associations between hoarding and collective US traumas rooted in consumerism and the environment. Each poem is a prismatic portrait of a person and the beloved objects they hoard, from Barbies to snow g...
Poetry. A poetic meditation on historical, personal, and cultural pressures pre- and post-"Fall-of-Saigon" with verse biography on the poet's mother, Diệp Anh Nguyễn, a stunt motorcyclist in an all-women Vietnamese circus troupe. Multilayered, plain...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Eschewing performative typography, Douglas Kearney's SHO aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating the complex penetrability of language, these poems are sonic in their espousal of...
Poetry. Enacting both the pain and heightened awareness of a body in crisis, Joshua Beckman's latest collection of carefully assembled poetic fragments seeks to elucidate the synthetic reality of being sick and being medicated. Written from inside o...
Poetry. In DUNCE Mary Ruefle returns to the poetic practice that has always been at her core. With her startlingly fresh sensibility, she enraptures us in poem after poem by the intensity of her attention, with the imaginative flourishes of her bein...
Poetry. Finalist for the 2020 Big Other Book Award for Poetry. In Sawako Nakayasu's first poetry collection in seven years, an unsettling diaspora of "girls" is deployed as poetic form, as reclamation of diminutive pseudo-slur, and as characters that...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Translated by Jack Jung, Sawako Nakayasu, Don Mee Choi, and Joyelle McSweeney. Formally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang's works were uniquely situated amid the literary experiments of world litera...
Poetry. Spanning 16 years of notebooks, teaching notes, and improvisations, Lisa Fishman's MAD WORLD, MAD KINGS, MAD COMPOSITION upends time itself in lyric, prose, and visual forms. Sharing Paul Klee's intuition that "the eye travels along the path...
Poetry. Simultaneously funny and frightful, Srikanth Reddy's UNDERWORLD LIT is a multiverse quest through various cultures' realms of the dead. Couched in a literature professor's daily mishaps with family life and his sudden reckoning with mortalit...
Poetry. The poems of Noelle Kocot's latest collection are ones of acute astonishment, tracking the intense spiritual and ecstatic elements that pervade the everyday world, the "fine surges of torrential / Probabilities" amid the "flotsam strewn unde...
Poetry. California Interest. Edited by David Brazil. Written from 1969 to 1971, West Coast Beat poet Philip Whalen's SCENES OF LIFE AT THE CAPITAL is a lasting testament to the ambition, range, powers, and devotion of this crucially important Americ...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Art. Winner of the 2020 National Book Award in Poetry. Finalist for the 2020 Big Other Book Award for Poetry. Woven from poems, prose, photographs, and drawings, Don Mee Choi's DMZ COLONY is a tour de force o...