Framed on the wall of our mordant modern living, Stella Corso’s evocative second collection, GREEN KNIFE, hangs firmly askew. In this annular and focused suite of poems, the flaneur’s gaze is provoked by—and attuned to—its caustic surroundings: a th...
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Literary Nonfiction. Essay. Art. Film. Nature. Asian & Asian American Studies. In his debut collection of essays, Jed Munson excavates the geopolitical reality and symbolic weight of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Drawing on his time as a Fulbright...
Sara Deniz Akant’s Hyperphantasia explodes the sonnet’s sonic and imaginative capabilities via infestation dreams, open tabs, and other disruptive forms of longing and (dis)belonging: the epistolary, epic, ballad, or just “some oracle shit” (history...
“Yes you, you chose to carve out this moment for you. No one else gets this time just for you,” chirps the onscreen calisthenic coach. It’s midnight. OUR DARK ACADEMIA’s contingent academic anti-heroine is perpetually working, trying to work it out....
Poetry. "I will receive money once," begins Vanessa Jimenez Gabb's BASIC NEEDS, a candid, sensitive inquiry into "love in the time of capitalism." Following from Gabb's debut collection, IMAGES OF RADICAL POLITICS, BASIC NEEDS traces the alienations...
Poetry. "[O]ne / writes a journal // to create the / guise of reading / creation. // It's all already / not there!," writes Dot Devota in her newest collection of explosive, visionary rage-songs sung in the private-public space of a journal toward t...
Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Gabriel Blackwell's CORRECTION is a book of recognition and reckoning, fiction in its newest form. These 101 short story-essays (what are they?) plunge out of the dizzying, devastating, truthy world of social media and ...
Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Art. Women's Studies. In Sarah Minor's adventurous and investigatory debut collection of essays, BRIGHT ARCHIVE, place and space are inextricably linked through an imaginative exploration of the patterns, shapes, and sys...
Poetry. In GRAVITY WELL, Marc Rahe's incisive third collection, the poems beckon readers through an ever-shifting series of landscapes, drawing our gaze across a dynamic tableau—an octopus wearing a sweater, a white sky over the bridge we're standin...
Fiction. Tess keeps vigil at the bedside of her friend Laura through a long night of labor as Laura's first child arrives. The two have known each other for what seems like forever. Their humanitarian aid work has taken them from the Balkans, to Egy...
Fiction. California Interest. Jewish Studies. THE USUAL UNCERTAINTIES: STORIES—Jonathan Blum's highly anticipated first collection—is storytelling at its finest. In precise, elegant prose, these stories follow characters and communities often consig...
Poetry. Declaration provides solace of structure for "o," the book's enigmatic but adamant speaker who navigates the seams of reality and dream in Tessa Micaela's WHERE BELLS BEGIN. In a landscape where "the mist rises from the chemicals bubbling on...
Poetry. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. California Interest. "What you're reading is poetría plain and very simple," declares Paola Capó-García's CLAP FOR ME THAT'S NOT ME, a collection that revels in assured complication. Through montage and ever-...
Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. "Here we are, in Spain." Caren Beilin's travelogue lays out a new path for the genre. SPAIN is sly cultural criticism (Blanchot to The Shining), feminist wink, post-breakup corrective, and portrait of the artist...
Poetry. As a bird learns to sing first by listening, Andy Stallings's PARADISE is attuned and attentive to surrounding song. Stallings's second collection's interests are as various as the paradises that scaffold a life: paradises lost in memory's m...