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A deft, musical debut poetry collection about the disabling effects of illness, rupture, and inheritance—informed both by Yoruba divinatory systems and violent Western medical understandings of the Black body. If I Gather Here and Shout summons Yoruba divinatory rituals into a hospital room. Incantatory verses accumulate alongside personal and historical “figures” of illness and death to illuminate the tensions between legibility and meaning-making that emerge when an ill Black body is processed through a Western medical context. With intimate knowledge of how ancestral memory aches and sings in the body, Funto Omojola invokes a lamenting chorus in the ceremony of survival.

A virtuosic inquiry into the forms and uses of healing, from ancient and modern medicine to contemporary literature, ecology, and protest.In the era of the “chronic acute” long predating COVID-19, Eleni Stecopoulos set out to investigate the imagination, aesthetics, and ideology of healing—its mysteries and mystifications, its many channels and codes. Fusing lyric inquiry with cultural criticism, Dreaming in the Fault Zone explores art’s treatment of our conditions at a time of both increased cynicism about healing and longing for it. Stecopoulos talks to physicians, poets, psychotherapists, disability activists, ethnographers, spiritual seekers; curates performances and takes part in community rituals; documents pilgrimages and visits therapeutic landscapes. Whether writing about the poet H.D.’s psychoanalysis with Freud or madness and apartheid in Bessie Head’s novel A Question of Power, the salve of demagogues or a global alliance of people with contested illnesses, Stecopoulos confronts the poetics and politics of affliction, empathy, memory, and survival. Weaving together esoteric scenes and everyday practice, with flashes of humor, these essays travel in a space of impasse and unending experiment.

An elemental, uncanny collection of poems translated from one of Sweden’s most influential and beloved poets.In Lonespeech, Ann Jäderlund rewires the correspondence between writers Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan into a series of stark, runic poems about the fraught act of communication and its failures. Forsaking her reputation as a baroque poet, Jäderlund uses simple words and phrases in favor of an almost childlike simplicity, giving her poems, on first glance, the appearance of parables: mountains, sunlight, rivers, aortas. Upon closer inspection, the poems glitch, bend, and torque into something else, enigmatic and forceful, lending them, as Jäderlund says, the force of “clear velocity.”

Dances of Time and Tenderness is a bold, sensual cycle of transpoetic stories that blend memory and movement in an innovative choreo-text of rage, sweetness and sorrow. A dance hall where the dead and the living meet, the tales take us from the dungeons of 1990s San Francisco to the goldsmith's forges of the earliest cities, tracing a transgenderational lineage of queer carnality. Not a memoir, but a collective memory, Julian Carter invites us to join artists and AIDS activists, sailors and skeletons, to fulfill the trans promise: "what we do with our bodies changes worlds."

A long-awaited, comprehensive collection of renowned poet and performance artist Jayne Cortez’s poetry.Like the jazz rhythms that inspired and punctuated her practice, Jayne Cortez improvised her way through and across disciplines, bridging poetry and performance with music and the visual arts to create a unique body of work. Consciously rupturing the boundaries between art and politics, Cortez’s practice uneasily fits within literary movements of the 20th century, residing everywhere and nowhere between the Black Arts Movement, Surrealism, feminism, and early performance art. As intersectional as it is interdisciplinary, her work is consistently visceral and fearless, acting as a powerful expression of collective rage on behalf of the disenfranchised and dispossessed. In the words of historian Robin D.G. Kelley, “her poetry was never ‘protest’ but a complete revolt, a clarion call for a new way of life.”

"As if hauled up squirming from the bowels of the internet, Sex Goblin metabolizes sex writing, popular culture, and autofiction to present the real and the imagined as equally surreal possibilities. In the narrator's childlike voice, all things become both mundane and strange--a child and their dog fused after a car accident, moments of tenderness amidst frat hazing, witches, and hiking accidents. At turns charming and bizarre, Sex Goblin channels sexual violence through the lens of the absurd to alchemize shame and abuse into something that registers differently than trauma. Sex Goblin is a barely factual but deeply felt field guide to relationships and relatability."--Amazon

"A taught, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life. "Dawn Lundy Martin's poems read like a real-time excavation of what poetry can and can't do," writes Maggie Nelson. In Instructions for the Lovers, her most stripped down, direct work to date, Martin creates a poetic field dense with thought, image, and sound as she reflects on her relationship with her mother, experiences of queer polyamory, lesbian sex, and the racist conditions within the dying American university system. With rigorously embodied vulnerability and virtuosity, Martin constructs moments of pleasure, humor, and sexiness woven with grief--a tender body to live in"--

Set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, this experimental novel follows an ensemble cast of all-singing, all-dancing butch dykes and Yiddish anarchists through eternal Friday nights, around the table, and at the bar.

"Collaged from journals and notebooks kept during a period of chronic illness, economic precarity, and heartbreak, Poem Bitten by a Man captures crisis by cutting up the record of a queer life lived in devotion to poetry and visual art"--

A lively and spontaneous interview with Etel Adnan about her absolute belief in the beauty of the world and the beauty of art. In these interviews with journalist and editor Laure Adler, conducted in the months before her death in November 2021, Etel Adnan traces with depth and emotion the founding experiences of her artistic approach, between poetry and painting. From her youth in Lebanon, her American years in New York and California, to her late recognition at Documenta in 2012 and her life in France, the conversation covers philosophy, painting, poetry and aesthetics, as well Adnan's views on history and politics in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. These transcripts usher the experiences and observations of Adnan's long and rich life into an intimate and spontaneous conversation with a dear friend—a window on the “universe” of her imagination.

A debut poetry collection about Earth and to Earth that contemplates imposed systems-gender, capitalism, time, wage and exploitation-and how they are mapped onto us, the trees, and the planet.Immersed in a tangled weave of contemporary life where big box stores and suburban parking lots coexist alongside the instructive silence of juniper trees and a pulsing waterfall, Our Air sketches the possibilities of eco and social interdependence during late-stage capitalism.Their inscriber, Nora Treatbaby, is a trans woman reckoning with the constraints of gender categories, when being a woman is "an implausible dream" and "an insane vibration." With sincere curiosity and a sprinkling of levity, these poems advocate for the world-building potential available in a material commitment to gentle friendship with all networks of life on Earth.

"Love Is Colder than the Lake weaves together stories dreamed and experienced, fragments of autobiographical trauma, and scraps of political and sexual violence to create an alchemical and incantatory texture that is all Giraudon's own. In its feminist attention and allusive stylistic registers, Love Is Colder than The Lake claims a unique position among contemporary French literature. The heroes (or anti-heroes) in this collection include Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Lorine Niedecker, Emma Goldman, Chantal Akerman, the Marquis de Sade, and the unnamed lake itself. Giraudon's writing, editing, and visual work have been influential in France for decades, and English-speaking readers will thrill to this challenging, important voice."--Publisher's website.

"In WATCHNIGHT, we accompany Johnson's unnamed protagonist on a psychedelic quest across myriad forms, places, and times marked by climate crisis, exodus, and Black trans identity-making."--

Laura's Desires is a diptych of two formally distinct long poems, each approaching various pop-cultural artifacts as a way to engage with longing, vulnerability, and the possibility of liberation. Referencing pop culture artifacts, from hit '90s singles like Selena's "Dreaming of You" to heroines of cult classic TV and films (Laura Palmer and Variety's Christine), this dynamic collection looks to these iconic touchstones as sites for feminist analysis and intervention. Traveling through dreamscapes, fantasy, and the quotidian, Laura's Desires forges a path away from fear and shame, guiding us towards liberation.

"A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito--part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential philosophy."--

"A collection of psychedelic poems inspired by Egyptian queen, Nefertiti, exploring the slippage between her image and legacy across time, place, and space."--

A textual and historigraphical odyssey imbued with queer intergenerational yearning and loss. Don’t Leave Me This Way blends archival research with sexual fantasy to produce a series of sonnets inspired by Gaétan Dugas, named by Randy Shilts as “Patient Zero” of the AIDS epidemic in North America. Committed to the utopian possibilities of elegy and pornography, Don’t Leave Me This Way exploits the absurdist beauty of the cut-up technique to voice a chorus of lost spirits: poignant, vengeful, and ready to ball.

*Author has been awarded many fellowships including the Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Voices Fellowship in 2021, Yates Fellowship at the University of Cincinnati and Peach Mag Best of the Net Nominee in 2021.*Author has been published in journals like Peach Mag (2021), Ligeia Magazine (2020) and Black Voices of Pride (2020). *Author has taught english, ESL and Academic Writing for over 10 years*Author is a active member of the Cincinnati poetry community who hosts the reading series GET LIT with Nomadic Press and has been a guest editor for Black Voices of Pride Collection at VarietyPack Magazine and Ghost City Press¿s 2020 Summer Reading Series*Author holds a B.A. in Theater from Columbia College, MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from California College of the Arts and is a a PhD candidate in Philosophy with a Creative Writing Focus (Poetry) at University of Cincinnati

*This timely reissue of an essential text on chronic illness, includes a new wide-ranging conversation with disability poetics scholar Declan Gould begun 2016. Focusing on the intersections of experimental poetics and the experiences of illness and invisible disability, Gould instigates a dialogue that situates the formal, thematic, and narrative concerns of The Empty Form in the broader context of what she calls a disability poetry of "radical accessibility." *After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eights years in Philadelphia, he is now an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville. *Authors other book, Doomstead Days was Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry. *Author is former Pew Fellow in the Arts, and the recipient of poetry fellowships from the NEA, the MacDowell Colony, the American Antiquarian Society, the Fund for Poetry, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Headlands Center for the Arts.

Collected for the first time, four landmark works of queer experimental poetry by reclusive cult poet David Melnick, known for his prowess with invented language and sound poetry.David Melnick's Nice: Collected Poems spans twenty crucial years of gay life and experimentation with poetic form, bringing together four masterworks of American literature: Eclogs (1967-70), ten episodes in the urban afterlife of pastoral; PCOET (1972), written in an unknown tongue, verse for a world that's yet to be; Men in Aida (1983-85), Melnick's masterpiece, a giddy epic of queer community; and A Pin's Fee (1988), a backward glance and elegy, a cry of pain, howl of anger.

A selection of extraordinarily condensed, emotionally complex, philosophical poems by one of the most unique and highly regarded 20th century Brazilian poets.In her lifetime, Orides Fontela resisted all labels, all attempts to situate her work in a particular movement, school, tendency, or tradition. Here, in her first ever English-language collection, Fontela’s poetry continues to defy easy categorization. In these concise, meditative poems, Fontela’s bird and flower, water and stone, blood and star can be read as symbols, indicating a possible tendency toward mysticism. Including an illuminating statement of poetics and excerpts from her often acerbic interviews, One Impossible Step introduces English-language audiences to an iconoclast who remains one across languages and decades.

*The translator describes the author, Stéphane, as, "He usually has a crush on someone, somewhere. He has a perfect bullshit detector, and also immense discipline. Above all, I think of Stéphane as someone who takes his writing (and reading) seriously. He's voracious about reading and ideas, and he's brilliantly smart. Finally, though, he has a wickedly wry sense of humor and a joyful sense of fun. One of my favorite evenings in Paris of all time involved a picnic with friends which ended in Stéphane teaching us all some yoga poses."*Author is a former French movie critic and editor at Cahiers du Cinéma as well as a former dancer and dramatist for Mathilde Monnier Dance Company who has published eight collections of poetry in french. *Author has received prizes such as the 2007 Mission Stendhal Award and 2003 Prix de Rome*Translator has been awarded the Woodberry Poetry Room WPR Creative Grant and received the French Voices Grant twice, including for this book.*Author has a masters from the Université Paris-Panthéon-Sorbonne and bachelor from Université Paris-Descartes*Translator holds a bachelor from Harvard, masters in film studies from Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle, MFA in poetry from New York University and PhD in english from the University of Virginia

*Written soon after the author realized he was dying of AIDS, he called this book "a short narrative on the idea that AIDS makes young people old." The book is both an attempt by the author to write into the aging he would miss and a meditation on being dependent on hired help. *This groundbreaking work now published with a new introduction by Shiv Kotecha contextualizing My Manservant within a larger framework of transgressive white writing that uses race as a literary device*Author was a well known French writer and photographer who wrote criticism for the Le Monde as well as some thirty books. His most notable work was To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, which presents an intimate portrait of Michel Foucault and played a significant role in changing public attitudes in France towards AIDS.*Translator is an award-winning full-time translator of French poetry, who has been selected for numerous prizes and accolades including The Culture Trip's "20 Translators Under 40" in 2017; being longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize and a finalist for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize; and winning the French Voices Award and the CLMP Firecracker Award. *The republication of The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life resulted in vast media coverage.

*Winner of Nightboat Poetry Prize*Author's poetry has been widely published in journals like Apogee, Nat. Brut, No, Dear, PANK, Peach Mag, the Poetry Project Newsletter, and the Rumpus. *Author was a co-curator of Segue Series and KGB Emerging Writers Reading Series. They have participated in public conversations and interviews, including a recent podcast conversation with An Duplan.*Author holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU, where they received multiple fellowships including the Goldwater Fellowship in 2018-2020, Provost's Global Research Initiative Fellowship in 2020.

*Prescribee was selected as a winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize *Born in Taiwan, Chang is an ESL poet with an idiosyncratic, formally adventurous, and politically galvanizing relationship to English. *Unusually collaborative editorial process between editor, ESL editor, and author. *A startlingly original poetic voice that astutely captures the alienation of colonization and of living in America as an immigrant, an Asian woman, and an ESL speaker. *For anyone interested in feminist, decolonial, and/or Asian poetics, or readers of experimental poetry. *Author is well-connected in the poetry community as the former events coordinator for Belladonna*. *Author is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council residency. *Work has been published in Hyperallergic, PEN America, Literary Hub, Wonder, and more *Has taught workshops at the Brooklyn Public Library and the Center for Book Arts

A baroque work of intimate myth exploring one woman’s interdimensional search for beauty and embodiment, through kaleidoscopic renderings of hospital corridors, brutal breakups, and passionate romance.The Fifth Wound is a phantasmagorical roman à clef about passion as a way of life. In one dimension, this is a love story—Aurora & Ezekiel—a separation and a reunion. In another, we witness a tale of multiple traumatic encounters with transphobic violence. And on yet another plane, a story of ecstatic visionary experience swirls, shatters, and sparkles. Featuring time travel, medieval nuns, knifings, and t4t romance, The Fifth Wound indulges the blur between fantasy and reality. Its winding sentences open like portals, inviting the reader into the intimacy of embodiment—both its pain and its pleasures.Named a must read book of 2023 by Nylon, BookRiot, Vulture‎, and The Millions!