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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.

"A book of poetry, dreams and speculative talks, collected from the psychic detritus of living in the US-Mexico borderlands. Part coping mechanism, part magical act, Hydra Medusa was composed while Brandon Shimoda was working five jobs and raising a child--during bus commutes, before bed, at sunrise. Encountering the ghosts of Japanese American ancestors, friends, children and bodies of water, it asks: what is the desert but a site where people have died, are dying; are buried, unburied, memorialized, erased. Where they are trying, against and within the energy of it all, to contend with our inherited present--and to live."--From Amazon.com description.

"Comprised of three long poems, Teeter knows experimental forms can be as intimate as mothering; knows we can understand languages we do not speak. From "Hearing" intensities of attention, to "Ambient Mom" familial Filipino immigrant soundscapes, to "Histories" careful scrutiny of the socially-sanctioned narratives and trajectories to which we are meant to aspire, Teeter's lessons in listening reverberate across career retrospectives and heritage languages, colonial histories and domestic intimacies, reattuning us to what we've neglected to notice in our efforts to create a life we can understand"--

*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!

*¿¿Author wrote book in 2016-2017 when she was living in New Jersey and traveling to Philly for grindr hookups. She says, "I was bored, broke and lonely, and then I was in the hospital for a while, and I wanted to talk to my friends. I thought about how hard it is in certain arrangements of sexual and gender life to talk about sex and gender honestly with the people you're fucking....Writing a series of letters in persona solved a number of problems at once: I could talk about myself without feeling like I was caving to the biographical imperative that structures a lot of trans literature, or disclosing or explaining myself to a gratified viewer. I could explore the largely repressed but widely present overlap between gay and trans forms of intimacy. I could talk about how rent-burdened I was, and how hard I found it to stay at the same address. Letters are extraordinarily permissive; direct address even more so. I took a bath in permission and I never got out of it.*Author is well connected in the New York poetry community as a co-founder and editor of Vetch: A Magazine of Trans Poetry and Poetics, co-curater of the Segue Series, and member of the Poetry Project Newsletter's editorial collective.*Author is co-editor of We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, which was a finalist for Publishing Triangle and Lambda Literary awards. Her work has been featured in The Brooklyn Rail, Social Text, The Recluse, The Believer, and elsewhere.*Author has been selected for many grants, fellowships, and residencies including The Poetry Project's Emerge-Surface-Be fellowship and Lambda Literary fellowship.*Author is a union organizer for adjunct instructors. When she's not teaching she's also organizing against jails, prisons, and policing. *Author has taught Writing at NYU, Cooper Union, Princeton, Prison Teaching Initiative, Bard Microcollege at Brooklyn Public Library as well as being a workshop leader at the the Poetry Project and Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. *Author holds a B.A. in Classics and Philosophy from Columbia University, an MPhil in Classics from Cambridge and a PhD from Princeton.*Author is very active on social media @unit01barbie (twitter)@unit01barbie (Instagram)

A deft book of aphorisms by an important French philosopher and writer

The winner of the 2018 Nightboat Poetry Prize that enters the space of ritual, incantation and trance with a stunning assemblage of images and structures.

* Meena Alexander was compiling this book during the last year and last months of her life.* The poems on the life of Sarra Copia Sulam are accompanied by Alexander's own original artwork.* Meena Alexander is an important writer in the disciplines of contemporary poetry, Women's and Gender Studies, Asian American literature and studies in globalism, migration and immigration as well trauma studies.* In the sequence "Grandmother's Garden" Alexander returns to the subjects of her groundbreaking memoir Fault Lines, which dealt with displacement and sexual trauma.

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.

The greatly anticipated second volume by an innovative and acclaimed talent