... inside language treacherous lilac / language syrener made for girls / like me for me the lilacs bloom / like little fingerprints hundreds / of bloody little finger prints I can’t hear / you I’m listening to the radio my wife / is feeding me pome...
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Poetry. Women's Studies. Taking the form of two long poems, "Interro-Porn" and "Chenille," WOMONSTER explores the often monstrous and buffoonish impossibility of a coherent self, even as its speakers take great pleasure in the performance of selves....
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. In 2013, poet Lauren Russell acquired a copy of the diary of her great-great-grandfather, Robert Wallace Hubert, a Captain in the Confederate Army. After his return from t...
Literary Nonfiction. "This slim journal contains multitudes. It's a compulsively readable account of returning to a childhood home, a provocative meditation on artists such as Susan Sontag, Francesca Woodman, and Andrei Tarkovsky, and a radical reex...
Literary Nonfiction. Essays. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. 2019 Lambda Literary Award finalist for LGBTQ Nonfiction. Longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Equal parts séance, polemic, and love letter, Pipe...
Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. LGBT Studies. Women's Studies. 2017 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Bisexual Poetry. Elizabeth Hall began writing I HAVE DEVOTED MY LIFE TO THE CLITORIS in the summer of 2010 after reading Thomas Laqueur's...
Fiction. Dana Green's debut collection of stories, SOMETIMES THE AIR IN THE ROOM GOES MISSING, explores how storytelling changes with each iteration, each explosion, each mutation. Told through multiple versions, these are stories of weapons testing...
Fiction. THE GROTESQUE CHILD is a story about being and being and being something else. It is about swallowing and regurgitating, conceiving and birthing. It is about orifices and orbs. It is about the viscous, weepy, goopy, mucousy, bloody state of...
Poetry. Women's Studies. LGBT Studies. Nothing that is complicated may ever be simplified, but rather catalogued, cherished, exposed. THE MISSING MUSEUM spans art, physics & the spiritual, including poems that converse with the sublime and ethereal....
Poetry. "It's as though his poetry takes us to the forest in Lars von Trier's Anti-Christ, where it's filmed, but then suddenly we find ourselves standing in front of a vanished movie theatre of our home. Göransson's poetry is a film that Death peek...
Fiction. Set in the mind of a narrator who is grieving the loss of her father, who conflates her hotel room with the morgue, and who encounters characters that may not exist, BURIAL is a little novel about an immeasurable black hole. Like a 21st cen...
Fiction. Poetry. "Maybe I should try to wake up. Maybe I should try and forget about Father Voice-Over. Maybe I should try and look away—but I can't. 'News organizations are setting up temporary stations in the mansion. When do you expect the Black ...
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "Writing from what Frank Sherlock calls a "genderqueer nomadism," david wolach's HOSPITALOGY traces living forms of intimate and militant listening within the Hospital Industrial Complex—hospitals, medical clinics and neighbori...
Fiction. "One would not make love to a Salamandrine during a sandstorm," wrote Aleister Crowley, anticipating by some sixty years the note of caution that Tarpaulin Sky must attach to the Black Book whose image now burns before you: Dear Reader, ban...
Fiction. Poetry. Asian American Studies. In the technicolor timewarp called Hell, Hong Kong, wannabe cowgirl La La is hellbent on realizing her dream to be a folk-singing sensation, even if it means surviving a dysfunctional relationship with her ki...