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Residual
Tisa Bryant,Writing alongside the specter of premature death, Tisa Bryant traces the contours of Black women’s interior lives and domestic spaces through meditations on literature, cinema, installations, and archival research to reaffirm her own way of being.In the long aftermath of her mother’s death, Tisa ...
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Consider the rooster
Oliver Baez Bendorf,NAMED ONE OF THE BEST POETRY COLLECTIONS OF 2024 BY LIT HUB AND ELECTRIC LITERATUREFINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN POETRYFINALIST FOR THE 2025 CLMP FIRECRACKER AWARD IN POETRYFINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA AWARD FOR TRANSGENDER POETRYConsider the Rooster serves as an ode to a...
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Writers who love too much
Kevin Killian, Dodie Bellamy,At last a major anthology of New Narrative, the movement fueled by punk, pop, porn, French theory, and social struggle to change writing forever. In the twenty years that followed America’s bicentennial, narrative writing was re-formed, reflecting new political and sexual realities. With the pub...
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New weathers: poetics from the naropa archive
Anne Waldman, Emma Gomis,A collection of lectures transcribed from the audio archives of Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program that represent a continuing lineage of experimental literary movements. New Weathers asks us to consider how poetics might embolden deeper engagements with the world. Collected from the alt...
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We want it all
Andrea Abi-Karam, Kay Gabriel, Ari Banias, Amy Marvin, Aeon Ginsberg, Akasha-Mitra, Bahaar Ahsan, Bianca Rae Messinger, Bryn Kelly, CAConrad, Caelan Earnest, Callie Gardner, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Caspar Heinemann, Charles Theonia, Ching-In Chen, Cody-Rose Clevidence, Cyrée Jarelle Johnson, Evan Kleekamp, Faye Chevalier, Harry Josephine Giles, Hazel Avery, Holly Raymond, Ian Khara Ellasante, Jackie Ess, Jamie Townsend, Jayson Keery, Jesi Gaston, Jessica Bet, Jimmy Cooper, José Díaz, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Joss Barton, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Kamden Hilliard, Kashif Sharma-Patel, Laurel Uziell, Leslie Feinberg, Levi Bentley, Liam O’Brien, Listen Chen, Logan February, Lou Sullivan, Mai Schwartz, Maxe Crandall, Miles Collins-Sibley, Nat Raha , Natalie Mesnard, Nm Esc, Noah Lebien, Nora Fulton, Nora Treatbaby, Peach Kander, Rachel Franklin Wood, Raquel Salas Rivera, Ray Filar , Rocket Caleshu, Rowan Powell, Samuel Ace, Stephen Ira , Sylia Rivera, T Fleischmann, Trish Salah, Ty Little, Valentine Conaty, Xandria Phillips, Anaïs Duplan, Zavé Gayatri Martohardjono and moreFinalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ AnthologyFinalist for the 2021 Publishing Triangle Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature A collection of formally inventive writing by trans poets against capital and empire.Editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel offer...
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Ban en banlieue
Bhanu Kapil,An evocative exploration of body and politics by one of our most exciting innovative writers.
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Instructions for the lovers
Dawn Lundy Martin,Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in PoetryA taut, 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...
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The beauty of light
Etel Adnan, Laure Adler, Ethan Mitchell,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 found...
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Sun of consciousness
Edouard Glissant, Nathanaël,The first English-language translation of a leading Caribbean writer’s debut volume.
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Time
Etel Adnan, Sarah Riggs,An arresting new translation of poems, originally written in French, by one of our greatest philosopher poets
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Tender points
Amy Berkowitz,Tender Points is a narrative fractured by trauma. Named after the diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia, the book-length lyric essay explores sexual violence, chronic pain, and patriarchy through lived experience and pop culture. First published in 2015, this new edition includes an afterword by t...
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Memories that smell like gasoline
David Wojnarowicz, Ocean Vuong,"Wojnarowicz is a spokesman for the unspeakable." —New York MagazineDavid Wojnarowicz, one of the most provocative artists of his generation, explores memory, violence, and the erotism of public space—all under the specter of AIDS.Here are David Wojnarowicz’s most intimate stories and sketches, f...
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The nightmare sequence
Omar Sakr, Safdar Ahmed,An extraordinary collaboration by an award-winning duo—poet Omar Sakr and visual artist Safdar Ahmed–that bears witness to the genocide in Gaza.The Nightmare Sequence is a searing response to the atrocities in Gaza and beyond since October 2023. Heartbreaking and humane, it is a necessary portrai...
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E
Noa Micaela Fields,Like a game of telephone gone haywire, these mischievous mishearings and homophonic translations remix a classic of 20th Century American poetry.C’mon, take the E pill (is it estrogen? ecstasy? something else entirely?). E practices mishearing as a bodily reworking of language alongside the poet’...
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Perverts
Kay Gabriel,Perverts traverses the psychic landscapes of Kay Gabriel and her community of friends, writers and organizers, piecing together a collective dream that both mirrors and transforms waking life. Against the backdrop of the anti-trans panic, Perverts explores desire as a political problem. It asks t...
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Padam padam
Kevin Killian, Kay Gabriel, Evan Kennedy, Jason Morris,A posthumous celebration of the poet and provocateur Kevin Killian, Padam Padam pulses with camp, pop culture, and pleasure.Kevin Killian—the puckish poet, playwright, novelist, scholar, and impresario of the Bay Area arts community—channeled the charisma of the pop stars. Pulled from his legenda...
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Porneia
Eduardo Kac,Internationally recognized for his works in telepresence and bioart, Kac presents here, translated into English for the first time, his early political poems and performance texts from his early career in Brazil.
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Drift
Caroline Bergvall,A riveting new volume exploring the power and provocation of medieval English and the trope of the seafarer
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Estrangement principle
Ariel Goldberg,A book-length essay that travels through the limits and landscapes of categorization in recent histories of literature and art
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Eco language reader
Brenda Iijima,In this riveting and timely collection of essays, interviews, and photographs, 17 contemporary innovative poets weigh in on pressing environmental concerns
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Troubling the line
Trace Peterson, TC Tolbert,The first-ever collection of poetry by trans and genderqueer writers
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Nepantla
Christopher Soto, Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, June Jordan, Pat Parker, Natalie Diaz, Ocean Vuong, Danez Smith, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Robin Coste Lewis, Jericho Brown, Carl Phillips, Tommy Pico, Eduardo C. Corral, Chen Chen, Joy Harjo, Richard Blanco, Erika L. Sánchez and moreThe first major literary anthology for Queer Poets of Color in the United States.In 2014, Christopher Soto and Lambda Literary Foundation founded the online journal Nepantla, with the mission to nurture, celebrate, and preserve diversity within the queer poetry community, including contributions ...
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Night
Etel Adnan,A luminescent book by one of our leading innovative writers
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Death styles
Joyelle McSweeney,A record of daily bewilderments and accidental concessions to hope after a momentous loss. In this follow-up to her award-winning collection, Toxicon and Arachne, Joyelle McSweeney proposes a link between style and survival, even in the gravest of circumstances. Setting herself the task of writin...
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Greasepaint
Hannah Levene,Nylon's Most Anticipated Books of 2024The Paris Review’s Favorite Books of 2023Set 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....
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Nice
David Melnick, Ben Friedlander, Alison Fraser,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, bri...
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The fifth wound
Aurora Mattia,NAMED A MUST READ BOOK OF 2023 BY NYLON, BOOKRIOT, VULTURE, THE MILLIONS, and MS. MAGAZINEA 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 Fi...
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Ante body
Marwa Helal,Finalist for the L.A. Times Book Prize in PoetryAn 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...
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Crosslight for young bird
Asiya Wadud,An urgent and vital debut collection of poems that mixes ekphrasis with reportage to draw a new narrative of our present-day migration crises
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Doomstead days
Brian Teare,A sumptuous lyric exploration of the pain & pleasure of embodiment amidst what feels like end times.
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Personal volcano
Laura Moriarty,A mesmerizing exploration of the intensity and power of volcanoes in personal, geologic, and spiritual time.
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Neotenica
Joon Oluchi Lee,A slippery novel set in the Bay Area of the early aughts, where femininity, race, and class tangle together. 2021 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction
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The revisionist and the astropastorals
Douglas Crase, Mark Ford,This vital collection restores to print and prominence the work of the elusive poet Douglas Crase, best known for his award-winning collection The Revisionist.
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Speech
Jill Magi,A deftly woven book-length poem that questions the existence of universal individual rights such as speech and citizenship, especially in relation to borders, both national and linguistic.
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No knowledge is complete until it passes through my body
Asiya Wadud,A revelatory collection of poems by Asiya Wadud that document the forces that shape the human body in movement and explore the continuum and conditions of how knowledge is enacted.
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Hull
Xan Forest Phillips,HULL explores emotional impacts of history and racism on the Black queer body.
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Wolf
Douglas A. Martin,An anti true crime novel about patricide, adolescent desire, and Southern working class life.
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Hatred of translation
Nathanaël,A book of essays on dynamic, transgressive 20th century figures and the necessity and perils of translating their work.
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Vibratory milieu
Carrie Hunter,A subtle, stunning work of lyric collage that expresses fluidity in all things: gender, sexuality, spirituality, and self
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Some beheadings
Aditi Machado,A stunning debut collection that examines the geophilosophy of lyric poetry
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Pet sounds
Stephanie Young,A love poem about reflecting back on one’s complicated sexuality, partnerships and relationships to kin.
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Curb
Divya Victor,Winner of the 2022 PEN Open Book AwardWinner of the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry AwardFinalist for the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Awards in PoetryCurb maps our post-9/11 political landscape by locating the wounds of domestic terrorism at unacknowledged sites of racial and religious conflict across citie...
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Action in the orchards
Fred Schmalz,A debut collection of playfully irreverent ekphrastic poems inspired by the author’s engagement with art, architecture and music
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Toxicon and arachne
Joyelle McSweeney,This virtuosic poetry collection asks: how does the body gestate grief? How does toxicity birth catastrophe?
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The faggots and their friends between revolutions
Larry Mitchell, Ned Asta,40th anniversary reprinting of a beloved fable-manifesto from the 1970s queer counterculture.
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The next loves
Stéphane Bouquet, Lindsay Turner,Located at the intersection of the individual and the social capturing the complexities of desire in a global age.
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Jump the clock
Erica Hunt,A collection by renowned poet and scholar Erica Hunt, spanning from the 1980s to the present.
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Skyland
Andrew Durbin,Two writers sail to a small island to search for a lost portrait of a beloved French writer.
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Repetition nineteen
Monica de la Torre,Based on slippages between languages and irreverent approaches to translation, the poems in Repetition Nineteen riff on creative misunderstanding in response to the prevailing political discourse.
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Slingshot
Cyrée Jarelle Johnson,SLINGSHOT questions the value of manhood, the price of sex, and the possibility of liberation.
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