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Julie Carr's most intimate book to date, The Underscore, is dedicated to two of Carr's foundational teachers, the dancer Nancy Stark Smith and the poet Jean Valentine, both of whom died in 2020. Elegiac and tender-at times erotic at other times bitter-these poems explore the passions of friendship and love for the living and the dead. Reaching at once toward the "ghost companions in the thicket" and to the beloveds who still "pulse with activi...

A hybrid book-length poem in which the protagonist grapples with a great loss. In this hybrid of lyric poetry and essay, Consuelo Wise utilizes repetition, fragmentation, and syntax to construct a form that repeatedly falls apart. Breaks in lines and fragmented stanzas are followed by accumulative rushes, slashes, brackets, and words pushed together. Throughout this book-length poem, Wise composes a meditation and an investigation into loss an...

Poems that offer an anti-capitalist consideration of life and selfhood for women in contemporary society. The poetry in Elizabeth Scanlon's Whosoever Whole asks how we arrive at and nurture a sense of self amid a culture that wants us only to consume. Navigating the fractal and often fractured experiences of a citizen, a parent in the time of climate change, and a woman in an embattled era, Scanlon invites the reader into an interior space fil...

Mutiny is the seventh book from award-winning and internationally-renowned Pacific Islander author Craig Santos Perez. These poems were originally published in journals and anthologies between 2008-2023, but this is the first time they have been collected into a single volume. Throughout, Perez continues his critical exploration of native cultures, decolonial politics, colonial histories, and the entangled ecologies of his homeland of Guam, hi...

Poems as music arise from the poet's sixty years as a classical guitarist and his preoccupation with the tonalities of day-to-day life. Each poem in the book contributes to a multi-orchestrated symphony encompassing the delights and travails of family life and the moments of intimate connection with the animals and plants with which the poet comes into contact. At the core of the book are poems delving into the nearly impossible task to commun...

It all comes in sleep. Things are often not as they appear, or as you remember. Instead, they are exactly as you imagine, and only that. Animals understand the world without words, while we create our experiences as stories. Our past and future are stories we tell in the present. But how often did you discover these stories weren't true, that you misremembered something, that your logical explanation was completely wrong, that someone had lied...

Emily Dickinson begins one of her best-known poems with the oft-quoted line, "Tell all the truth but tell it slant -" For anyone who is Asian American, the word "slant" can be heard and read two ways. It is this sense of doubleness - culminating in the instability of language and an untrustworthy narrator - that shapes, informs, and inflects the poems, all of which focus on the question of who is speaking and who is being spoken for and to? Ma...

Set against a rural plains landscape of gas stations, wind, and roadkill bones on highways, You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis is a love letter to the nonbinary body as a site of both queerplatonic intimacy and chronic illness. Through art and friendship, the poems imagine alternatives to x-rays, pathologizing medical settings, and other forms of harm. At the place where radiological light and meadow meet--at the site where the asexual speaker's ...

Looking And Seeing is a poetic work of equal parts yearning, regret and righteous indignation. On these pages, what is said and what is written renders us seen in all our complications. I wrote this book as a singular and lifelong investigation of my being and my body as someone brown moving through white spaces. That it now finds itself bound together in a single volume and in proximity to the work of my friend Damon Potter, that he is a whit...

LETTERS FROM THE BLACK ARK is a book about and of dub. The word dub accrues a subtle lyrical connotation from its many occurrences as "bestow", "vest", "crown", but also "suspend", "reverb", "echo", and "sever". Dub poetry, in other words, doesn't simply reveal or conceal (danger, fear, blindness, or failure) but also points the way to the knowledge that bestows and severs, and the conditions that produce black poetic music. In Marriott's poet...

Kimberly Reyes navigates the physical, hereditary, and liminal worlds between land, time, and memory. Reclaiming and examining space in San Francisco, Ireland, and the Atlantic Ocean, the author performs sâeance and autopsy of all we see and do not see, and all we have left behind"--

This book is the fifth collection in Craig Santos Perez's ongoing from unincorporated territory series about the history of his homeland, the western Pacific island of Guêahan (Guam), and the culture of his indigenous Chamoru people. "êAmot" is the Chamoru word for "medicine, " and commonly refers to medicinal plants. Traditional healers were known as yo'êamte, and they gathered êamot in the jungle, and recited chants and invocations of taotao...

extraordinary tides attempts to hold a position in the intertidal, the in-between place of not-quite-land and not-quite-sea. The poems engage time and tide, and our efforts to predict and know both. If the ground beneath us is always in flux, how do we know where we are? Considering the language of the tides, the poems in this chapbook make a wrackline palimpsest, a seastruck archive, a marginalia of the littoral"--

If the human experience is the equivalent of the universe looking back at itself, godhouse takes that notion a few steps further by centering cosmology in a raced and gendered body, in a union of god and soul that, within our material world, easily vacillates between love and hate, joy and despair. The body manifests as divine presence made mortal, as an infinity singing the generative human arc of being-ness with an electric resonance. In god...

This book speaks the language of clock-sense as a living instrument, exposing the sensory impacts of our obsession with time. This work's interwinding lyrics move through histories as a nervous system moves. In that body we hear this text sound out the maternal and the material as if played by fingers along the frets of meaning. We hear the poems reveal how we let our days become over-clocked and over-transactional and over-weaponed. This inst...

In a series of experimental ecopoems, The Rendering confronts the history of the Dust Bowl and its residual impacts into our current climate crisis while acknowledging the complicities of capitalism. These poems grapple with questions of wholeness and annihilation in an Anthropocenic world where the fallout of settler colonialism continues to inflict environmental and cultural devastation. Anthony Cody encourages readers to participate in the ...

Etymologies conceives of language as process, rather than language as fixed history. These poems build imaginative mini-worlds of possible word-use. They create a playful quasi-reference work that flips standard assumptions about word origins-mainly that such origins exist. The text questions the intent of any writer using an etymology to prove a specific meaning. In so doing, Etymologies pays particular attention to relation: of the cultures ...

The great love of your life is dead. But that doesn't stop him from communicating with you-or luring you to join him in the afterlife. To remain safely in this world, you accept the help of a professional medium who develops his own emotional agenda. The Ghost Trio takes us to the Prague of the past, where a love triangle like no other finds its chilling and unexpected resolution. Inspired by the ghost stories of such practitioners as Henry Ja...

Poems that incorporate multiple voices to embrace fragmentation, discord, and plurality.   At a time of simultaneous isolation and interconnection, this book is an inquiry into the edges of the self. Pushing back on capitalist messages of individuality, CHORUS instead seeks the multifaceted self that engages with the radical diversity that characterizes any healthy ecosystem or society. Moving between a remote canyon in New Mexico, the Pacifi...

Ewa Chrusciel's fourth book in English, Yours, Purple Gallinule, playfully explores health and illness as they are culturally constructed. Using research about various bird species, clinical understandings of mental afflictions and their treatment through history, Chrusciel maps various diagnostics onto an array of avian species. Intended as a lyrical satire, the book is a reflection on a society that tends to over-diagnose, misdiagnose, over-...