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Ashna Ali's poetic memoir The Relativity of Living Well documents the experience of surviving infection with COVID-19 the period of quarantine between March and July 2020 as a queer immigrant of color public school teacher in New York City. These poems bear witness, holler rallying cries, and interrogate the roles, capacities, and needs of the individual within larger social fabrics afflicted by both pandemic and by imperialist capitalist logi...

Hypermobilities is a verse-memoir in haiku, written over two years of intense engagement with the medical system. Samuels composed these poems in her head while strapped down within MRI machines, in the infusion center with IV needles snaking her arms, waiting and waiting in white-walled rooms. They are necessarily short, to be written by memory without pen or screen. A selection of these poems eventually formed into this collection, named aft...

Presented in 2019 as part of 'resistance fantasies' at the Exponential Festival, "Collaborative Precarity Bodyhacking" was a series of cross-disciplinary workshops addressing precarity's trauma-resonant effects on mind and body programming. These intensive gatherings employed individual and group work that included writing, performance, movement, breathwork, mindfulness, and dialogue, making space for reading, ritual, and emergent documentatio...

Damm's distinctive style of collage transforms 1950s horror comics into true stories of artistic failure. One artist's quixotic quest to clone Martin Luther King, Jr. A pioneering silent film director pushed from the industry by her controlling husband. A writer who tries to write popular fiction but ends up in the avant-garde. Featuring radical Argentinian art collective Tucumán Arde, conceptual artists Pope L. and Marta Minujín, filmmakers A...

Daughter Isotope is a book of "hybrid" poems that speaks to multiple iterations of "daughter" tropes across generations, national borders, and timescales. Central to the question of the Daughter Isotope is: What is a collective archive? within a global, disparate, migrant cultural space. DI is organized in a series of four "clouds, " calling up the vague, penetrable borders of our digital lives, both searching and searchable. Throughout the ...

In the sequel to The Codex Mojaodicus, Steven Alvarez's experimental Manhatitlán returns to the mythopoetic mode to build a network of layered rhythms, designs, images, languages, and voices, with the nodal point centered on Mexican New York City, past, present, and future. The novel in verse weaves narratives, histories, and stories into a slanguage chingazo straight to the panza.

Vormorgen aims to collect all of Ernst Toller's poetic works in a single volume, the first to appear in nearly a century.This edition, in German and English, includes Toller's three principle poetic works: Vormorgen, The Poems of the Imprisoned, and The Book of Swallows, as well as his scattered, uncollected poems. Toller was a Jewish anarchist working in Munich, and was briefly the president of the Bavarian Soviet Republic (Münchner Räterepub...

RoseSunWater is a collection of bioluminescent writing that seeks to keep memory alive in the face of colonial gentrification of the city, the peninsula, and the mind. The writing contained seeks to render the spillage of the spirit through ancestral retracings from Los Angeles to the Yucatán, from the orchard to the cenote and back to the sea. RSW is an attempt to finish a poem that Angel's grandmother wrote, sleep-walking through time and sp...

Híkuri (Peyote) is Mexican Infrarealist José Vicente Anaya's cult-classic poem.Influenced by his participation in a series of peyote ceremonies in his native Chihuahua, Anaya charts a transformative journey inwards, towards a psychedelic convergence of inside/outside, male/female, past/present, self/other. Incorporating Rarámuri language and traversing territory associated with ecopoetics, ethnopoetics, modernism, and infrarealism, Híkuri (Pey...

Unnatural Bird Migrator stitches together disparate filaments of diasporic language as a living quilt of translational refuse, a patchwork-art gleaned and assembled from the pieces of writing and speech we are quite literally taught to forget. 'UNBM' traverses the semi-permeable borders between doubling and tripling mother tongues in exile, looping these languages through one another and back again in the form of a highly adaptive poetic boome...

Enter the Navel: For the Love of Creative Nonfiction is playful abecedarian speaks back to its titular epithet by looking both figuratively and literally at the navel. It includes the curious state of lint and bacteria and what humans have been known, disgustingly, to do with them (hello, navel cheese!). Also appearing: Hawaiian and Hindu origin stories rooted in the navel that connect us, with urgency, to the divine, the role of the navel, ou...

2016 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry, Finalist. JP Howard's debut collection, SAY/MIRROR, is a dialogue of history and memory, reflecting on and integrating vintage photographs of her mother, Ruth King (a fairly well known African American runway model in Harlem during the 1940's and 1950's) with snapshots from the poet's own childhood. This manuscript began to emerge when Howard gained access to a large collection of her mother's mod...

Danielle Pafunda's Spite reimagines André Breton's Nadja in conversation with his Communicating Vessels and My Heart Through Which Her Heart Has Passed. Spite speaks through the melancholy bohemian dream girl. No longer gateway to the masculine artist's destiny, Nadja becomes agent of her own evolution. The poems consider what happens when we no longer equate the hospital with the tomb, but understand it as generative site. Nadja rolls her ex-...

In Still Rooms is more than a haunted house novel-a strange hybrid drawing its aesthetic equally from ancient Greek drama, ecopoetics, and the Gothic tradition. Set in an old house in rural East Tennessee, three generations of a Greek-American family mourn the loss of a matriarch who reveals herself to each of them uniquely. Regardless of the family's comings and goings, the reader remains always in the house. In this house, religion, mytholog...

One of Iran's leading modern poets featured in all of his playful complexity. Like his poems, Bijan Elahi's own writings on translation (brought into English here for the first time), belong alongside such seminal ¿western verse-translators as Ezra Pound."--Roger SedaratThe hermit-poet of modern Persian literature, Bijan Elahi (1945-2010) was a modernist poet, a prolific translator of Eliot, Rimbaud, Michaux, Hölderlin, and the founder of Othe...

Faroese is a traditionally repressed language though it has made great strides since gaining semi-autonomy from Denmark after WWII. For several decades, Katrin Ottarsdóttir¿-¿a pioneer in Faroese filmmaking and poet¿-¿has been making work across disciplines, committed to breaking this silence in defiance of the secretive culture in the Faroe Islands that demands it.Ottarsdóttir's groundbreaking, award-winning 1999 film, Bye, Bye, Bluebird was ...

In 2019, Google achieved quantum supremacy - a quantum computer that could do in 200 seconds would take 10, 000 years on a conventional super computer. Marie Hinson uses her trans embodiment and metaphysics to place a hex on this milestone of capitalism from points of origin to future simulations. "Please remit my qubits. Please let go of those parts of me that are working for and with capitalism. Please remit to my body my ability to use my l...

The quantum world, like the mystical, is anonymous, aporetic, hidden. In order to view thisstrange realm-one filled with particles darting in and out of nowhere, of what Einstein oncefamously called "spooky action at a distance"-this collection takes as its subject matter amyriad of interfacings-quantum physics, mysticism, cryptography, impersonality, andmeontology, to name a few. Playfully rigorous and rigorously playful, Quantum Mechanticsex...

From the author, Nik De Dominic: "My pulmonologist once told me that the medical community would always have an interest in me because I was an uncommon presentation of a rare illness. Recently, I admitted myself to Los Angeles County Hospital's emergency room because of shortness of breath. In the past, I would've driven home, slept it off, but I'd had open heart surgery about 2 and a half months prior. That day my baseline was blown, I was h...

This book is evidence of unusually ebullient thinking about the spongy and interbred archives of petropolitics & necropolitics-life and death produced for/from the manna of fossil fuels-which Tierney parses, imbricates, and translates into poems that are wet and living, petrified and stony, made of paper and people, just like the range of archives she plumbs....This is a work of remarkable insight, confident tonal variance, and playful intelli...