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The first English-language translation of a leading Caribbean writer's debut volume.

A subtle, stunning work of lyric collage that expresses fluidity in all things: gender, sexuality, spirituality, and self

The paperback edition of the author's collected poems, which restores to print and prominence the work of the elusive poet Douglas Crase, best known for his award-winning collection The Revisionist.

The acerbically funny and intimate screenplay for acclaimed visual artist Martine Syms's debut film, The African Desperate.The African Desperate follows Palace Bryant on one very long day in 2017 that starts with her MFA graduation in upstate New York and ends at a Chicago Blue Line Station. Set against the lush backdrop of late summer, Palace navigates the pitfalls of self-actualization and the fallacies of the art world. Shot through with Syms’s celebrated conceptual grit, humor, social commentary, and vivid visual language, The African Desperate leads us through picturesque landscapes and artists studios, from academic critiques to backseat hookups, and from the night of a wild graduation party to the morning of a lonely trip back home.

A collection of hybrid essays that engage the intersection of habitats, horticulture, and histories--poetic, personal and otherwise.

"In this timely collection of poetry, plays, fiction, and performance texts, Assotto Saint draws upon music and incantation, his Haitian heritage, and a politics of liberation to weaves together a tapestry of literature that celebrates life in the face of death. Influential to contemporary writers such as Essex Hemphill, Marlon Riggs, and Melvin Dixon, Sacred Spells is Saint's crucial legacy-five hundred incandescent pages of painful, lyric writing that exemplifies the visceral, spiritual dimensions of an artistic practice that's integral to Black and LGBTQ activist movements worldwide, both historic and present."--

​​A moving collection of essays that bring poetic insight to the sheer facts of the AIDS epidemic, in an attempt to make meaning from suffering.​​Unbound is a poet’s intimate account of life in San Francisco in the 80s and 90s during the apex of the AIDS epidemic. In his search for meaning, Shurin dives down into the broken-hearted, revelatory core of the social landscape and the lives of friends who both succumbed to and transcended the disease. Twenty-five years after its initial publication, Unbound continues the search, resonating inescapably with the perils of our new pandemic. Shurin brings to life a familiar world tensed on the threshold of living, balanced precariously on the edges of love and friendship, family and community, rapture and mourning.

A reprint of trans poet, activist, and teacher TC Tolbert's beloved debut collection of poetry.In Gephyromania (literally, an addiction to or an obsession with bridges), Tolbert's choice isn't between female and male, lover and self, or loss and relief, but rather to live in the places where those binaries meet. Is a bridge simply an attempt to connect one body back to itself? Sensing the parallels between a lover who leaves and his own female body as it chooses to recede, the poems in Gephyromania explore the spaces between, among, across, and even within bodies.

In this first English-language translation of Poetic Intention, Glissant argues for the importance of the global position of art. He states that a poem, in its intention, must never deny the "way of the world." Poetic Intention creates a new landscape for understanding the relationship between aesthetics and politics.

*Winner of Nightboat Poetry Prize *Author's work has appeared in POETRY, WUSSY, Mass Review, No Tokens, and The Margins. *Author is a member of the Brooklyn based drag/burlesque collective Switch N' Play, which has performed at The Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, National Sawdust, New York Live Arts and at NightGowns, hosted by the winner of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9, Sasha Velour. *Of interest to readers invested in hybrid formations of identity and artifice; high fashion; self-aware performances of kitsch and camp; drag performers, performance artists, queer Asian Americans. *Of interest to readers of life writing and immigrant narratives; those interested in radical negotiations and survival of state power through queer desire, tender sublimity, everyday transcendence and cultural forms of resistance. *Author received fellowships from MacDowell, New York Foundation of the Arts, Kundiman, The Asian American Writers Workshop, Poets House, and Lambda Literary.*Poems were written a month out from them and their family's deportation proceedings.*Author currently works as the Communications Manager at Lambda Literary and the Editor of the Lambda Literary Review. *Author holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU*Instagram: @theillustriouspearl

Finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize in Poetry!An incisive poetic sequence that tracks the relationship between migration and complex traumas in this unsparing critique of the unjust conditions that brought us the global pandemic. Ante body is a poetics of [un]rest. A project that started as an exploration of how the psychological impacts of migration and complex traumas manifest as autoimmune disease and grew into a critique of the ongoing unjust conditions that brought on the global pandemic. Continuing her use of the invented poetic form, the Arabic, and integrating Fred Moten’s concept of “the ANTE,” Helal creates an elliptical reading experience in which content and form interrogate the inner workings of patriarchy, capitalism, nationalism, and globalism.

*Author’s work has appeared in ELDERLY, YewJournal, Eleven Eleven, VOLT, Cutbank, New American Writing, Five Fingers Review and 26: A journal of poetry and poetics. *Of interest to anyone interested in boundaries between urban and “wild” or neglected or undeveloped spaces; the historic geography and blue-collar communities of San Francisco, Situationist flaneury, psychogeography and poetics. *Of interest to those in pursuit of a personal relationship with nature; the intersection of natural phenomena and spirituality; in blurring the boundaries between Western scientific knowledge and earth religions via the no-fly zones of literature, astrophysics, ecology and metaphysics *Of interest to those invested in explorations of queer, genderqueer and nonbinary identity through the lens of spirit, matter and humanity. *Poems were written over ten years while living in San Francisco, specifically the largely immigrant, still blue collar neighborhood Portola neighborhood. *Author is part of Milkweed Theater, a Bay Area community theater group. *Author has participated in numerous class presentations, including “Transgender Panel” and “Radical Love and Poetry” at The Athenian School (2017, 2015) and “Poets Studied and in Conversation) at UC Berkeley Extension (2015) *Author is a part of the local small press and letterpressing community and has created broadsides for events including the Bay Area Writers Resist Event (2017) *Author was twice awarded Chancellor’s Outstanding Staff Award, UC Berkeley *Author is a volunteer member/editor for Kelsey Street Press *Author was a guest curator for the Bay Area Poetry Marathon and for the a poetry series at Canessa Gallery *Author holds an MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco

*Of interest to people interested in creative approaches to healing, embodiment, somatics, disability, chronic illness, trauma, people interested in diaspora and immigration; mythology & ritual; readers of lyric essays / creative nonfiction / experimental prose / autotheory; critical medical humanities scholars; people interested in creative approaches to healing, psychology, illness narrative*Author taught in the Language and Thinking program at Bard College 2008-2011.*Author worked with the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University on curating the Poetics of Healing series between 2008-2013. *Author taught at SFSU in Comparative and World Literature, Creative Writing, and English.*Book was written as part of a grant-funded project that created a public forum for exploring healing: The Poetics of Healing: Creative Investigations in Art, Medicine, and Somatic Practice (program series I curated with SFSU Poetry Center, initially supported by Creative Work Fund grant in San Francisco, with some co-sponsorship from UCSF Medical Humanities Initiative)

Sonically vibrant, polyphonic, typographic experimentation gleefully strategizes resistance and life under white supremacist capitalism in Kamden Hilliard¿s debut collection of poems, MissSettl. In MissSettl, is a funny, joyful, and spiteful debut collection of seriously playful poems; they carry on with impish provocation, engagement, and mourning for what has been done to our living practices. These poems lampoon rigged games of common sense, syntax, and citizenship to expose the mechanics of what Americans have become and what they might be freed into after the end of capitalism and gender, and race, and money, and property. MissSettl confronts what¿s in the way of love; it disrupts what limits our potential.

Linked stories alighting from a U.S., Black and Filipino imaginary through a central character Virgil, and his accounts on race, sex, and desire.Virgil kills forms, manifesting a set of poetic investigations?revealing black and brown life, memory, dreams, the sea, the sex-act, the line. Virgil travels in theaters and lots: Manhattan, Guam, Santa Cruz, Sacramento, Berlin, Iloilo, Provincetown, Millington, San Francisco, Long Island, Western Mass. Virgil moves against class, whiteness, on stages, at lecterns, in studios, and a luxury vehicle. Virgil records in the sensorium of cruising lovers, real love, family, T.V., characters??Butch,? ?Stream,? ?Clean??his precise unfurling.

Aerial Concave Without Cloud is a collection of poetry steeped in the bluest apocalypse light of solar collapse and the pale, ghostly light of personal devastation and grief. Through a combination of academic research and the salp'uri dance form, Sueyeun Juliette Lee channels and interprets the language of starlight through her body into poetic form. Through deep conversation with this primary element, Lee discovers that resilience is not an attitude or posture, but a way of listening.

*For those interested in how pleasure, crisis, wonder, disappointment, love, and fantasy are written into our forms for living*Author is a PhD Student in English at the University of Chicago*Author¿s poetry and essays have appeared in Jacket2, Entropy, at The Chicago Review, and LitHub *Author worked as a sound engineer and administrative assistant for Kelly Writer¿s House in Philadelphia for several years*Finalist for Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry 2020 for Losing Miami*O, Miami Advisory Board 2019*Semi-Finalist in Tarpaulin Sky 2017 Book Prize for Jazzercise is a Language*Kelly Writers House Junior Fellow 2017*Winner of Timeless Infinite Light TRACT Contest 2015 for Oil and Candle

A collection of epistolary poems that exorcises and explores the material violence and generational trauma of colonization and systemic racism stored within queer Latinx memory. Includes a Foreword from Raquel Salas Rivera!In Desgraciado, Angel Dominguez navigates language and memory to illuminate the ongoing traumas of misremembered and missing histories and their lasting impacts. Dominguez unravels a critical and tender language of lived experience in letters addressed to their ancestral oppressor, Diego de Landa, (a Spanish friar who attempted to destroy the written Maya language in Mani Yucatán, on July 12th 1562), to articulate an old rage, dreaming of a futurity beyond the wreckage and ruin of the colonial imaginary. This collection doesn't seek to heal the incurable wound of colonization so much as attempt to re-articulate a language towards recuperation.

A triptych of wild, lyric love poems that are, at heart, an ode to Arkansas.Set among blue Ozark creeks, hoods of trucks, and changing constellations, Cody-Rose Clevidence's poems call up embodied sensations as they arise, with love and anguish, in a specific place. Navigating between senses and the sensed world, in lyric, lushness and density, Clevidence constructs an intricate and playful poetics both experimental and emotive to investigate the interplay between the vivid sensations of the body and the viscerally surrounding world.

*Of interest to people interested in philosophy, travel, translation, European literature, and poetics.*Author received the 2006 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. *Author of more than a dozen award-winning poetry collections *translator of experimental poetry and philosophical texts *long career collaborating with dancers, painters, and other artists

A guided meditation on human extinction that imagines a post-apocalyptic Earth thriving without us.

This visceral, thrilling collection of stories by prescient lesbian writer Camille Roy explores what it takes to survive as a young sex and gender outlaw in the heart of America.

Path-breaking lesbian poet & scholar Judy Grahn returns to the stories of Inanna the Mesopotamian goddess of erotic love and justice to reimagine the contemporary world.

Crafted through years-long collaborations, OBB aka The Original Brown Boy is a postcolonial techno dream-pop comics poem that records two decades of the author's experiences as an immigrant and artist

Winner of the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize, Imagine Us, The Swarm offers seven powerful texts that form a constellation of voices, forms, and approaches to confront loneliness, silence, and death.

A debut collection of love poems that resist subjection and ask how we might live together outside of capitalism, providing for each other through intimate acts of care and struggle

Longlisted for the 2022 Pen Open Book Award!Curb maps our post-9/11 political landscape by locating the wounds of domestic terrorism at unacknowledged sites of racial and religious conflict across cities and suburbs of the United States.