N. is a novella in the Spatial Species series, edited by Youmna Chlala and Ken Chen, which investigates the ways we activate space through language. Expertly employing historical surrealism to critique orientalism, megalomaniac masculinity, and colonialism, Van der Vliet Oloomi rages against the abandonment of the natural world in favor of digital realms with satirical humor and restless energy.
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.
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the brilliant daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune?
Dana Potowski is a restaurant critic, food writer, and a longtime member of a progressive Unitarian Universalist congregation in Southern California. Under pressure to find her next book idea, she agrees and resolves to secretly pen a memoir, with recipes, about the experience. That memoir, Search, follows the travails of the church committee and their candidates for a new minister--and becomes its own media sensation.
D. Nurkse's immigrant parents met on a boat out of Europe in 1940; he was a child of the generation whose anxieties were forged in the shadow of Hiroshima and the aftermath of WWII. His poems extend that child's dignified ignorance into an open encounter with the cataclysms of the latter twentieth century and with family structures.
Dana Levin's fifth collection is a brave and perceptive companion, walking with the reader through the disorientations of personal and collective transformation. Now Do You Know Where You Are investigates how great change calls the soul out of the old lyric, "to be a messenger--to record whatever wanted to stream through."
In this brilliant, expansive second volume, Whiting Award-winning poet Roger Reeves probes the apocalypses and raptures of humanity: climate change, anti-Black racism, familiar and erotic love, ecstasy, and loss. Drawing on a history of poetry that ranges from the Aeneid to Walt Whitman to Drake, Best Barbarian offers moments of joy and intimacy amid catastrophe.
Americans consume over 1.5 billion pounds of peanut products every year, but few of us know the peanut's tumultuous history, or its intimate connection to slavery and freedom. Lyrical and powerful, Slaves for Peanuts deftly weaves together the natural and human history of a crop that transformed the lives of millions, revealing how demand for peanut oil in Europe ensured that slavery in Africa would persist well into the twentieth century.
What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own," but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? Award-winning biographer Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and creativity converge, evoking the intimate struggles of brilliant artists and writers including Doris Lessing, Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde, and Alice Neel.
Shane McCrae fashions a world of endings and infinites in Cain Named the Animal. With cyclical, rhythmic lines that create and re-create images of our shared and specific pasts, he writes into and through the wounds that we remember and "strains toward a vision of joy" (Will Brewbaker, Los Angeles Review of Books).
