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Studying \u003cem\u003eEntanglements\u003c\/em\u003e entangles me in Souffrant's open-hearted archive, and renews my faith in the poetics of bibliomancy, that charmed zone where yearning and reading intersect, and where Souffrant, terse as Duras, shows us how to feel at home.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eWayne Koestenbaum\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The force of Leah Souffrant's roving, probing mind and the remarkable distances it both maps and collapses is exquisite. In this inspiriting, genre-refuting work, we encounter life's difficult enmeshings, richly braided together with critical acuity, care, and verve. Souffrant's vision, and what it alights on, is sui generis.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eJenny Xie\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A capacious, loving textile where meditations become fibers through which questions about art, memory, love, and human relationships intertwine, Leah Souffrant's \u003cem\u003eEntanglements\u003c\/em\u003e will change how you think about reading, texts and bodily encounters with the world. \u003cem\u003eEntanglements\u003c\/em\u003e pulls at the fibers of history and humanity, inviting the reader to think about new ways of touching life and its artifacts. Simply put, this is a gorgeous book—and the reader will, too, become entangled in its brilliance and artistry and emerge changed.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eTyler Mills\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Love, memory, meaning, nation, narrative — with \u003cem\u003eEntanglements\u003c\/em\u003e Leah Souffrant touches every thread of the web, causing vibrations that remind us of how we are bound to the world and one another. That frisson, of coming into contact with the invisible, might once have been evidence of witchcraft, but now it is how we recognize poetry of colossal proportions. To look so unflinchingly at the invisible web that holds everything together, to feel its umbilical tug on your own life, requires a form of courage that Souffrant has in spades and, with her writing, she'll lend you some.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eAbby Paige\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eEntanglements\u003c\/em\u003e is a true text in the etymological traces of the word: both the act of weaving and the object woven. Leah Souffrant braids the philosophical, lyrical, bodily, gestural—historical memory and the memory of skin and sensation—in this mobile interface of transitions. 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Witte's formal skill lends voice and body to the crucial work of finding grace in a time marked by environmental crisis, global pandemic, and personal loss. His poems gain their depth and dimension from attentiveness to the lives of others, the details of the natural world, and the often-bewildering ways we live now. 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This is a collection for the ages, one I will keep coming back to again and again.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eAnton Yakolev\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Composed during the pandemic, George Witte's latest poems emerge from those lean years keenly aware of the world's frailties and of our own. Threats we have weathered have left their marks: Infection. Hemorrhage. \/\/ Heart fibrillating on the windowsill: \/ systole absent diastole. \/\/ Cool shadow cast, withdrawn. \/ A sense of something immanent but gone. Realist, elegiac, and deftly musical, \u003cem\u003eAn Abundance of Caution\u003c\/em\u003e takes stock of America now, from the vantage point of Witte's native Garden State. 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They remind us that, despite the fact that storefront pastors blare apocalypse, and despite the fear that humans might exterminate \/ creation, we can still enjoy mysterious moments of grace.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eHenry Hart\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The carefully crafted poems in George Witte's \u003cem\u003eAn Abundance of Caution\u003c\/em\u003e are always alert to the subtleties and possibilities of language. Images spring to life, as when plastic bags caught in winter trees like thought balloons recall \/ so many empty hands and what they held. A home newly on the market is a ghost ship uncaptained by disease, suffering slow mutinies of stuff, \/ Ash-pocked couch, bottom-broken chair \/ compressed by bridge and cocktail Saturdays. Witte offers an unflinching glimpse at personal and global degeneration, the undiagnosed collapse, the summer the hottest since, more arid than, the worst. It is through these harrowing moments—including a poem titled The Harrower—that Witte surprises and startles, so that we might learn astonishment \/ again.\" -\u003cstrong\u003e Ernest Hilbert\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Each poem in this book is to be savored for its deft skillfulness, and almost every phrase has surprises that require mental adjustments. It is a pleasure, a challenge, and a reward to immerse oneself in these highly imaginative poems, each with a strong moral core binding it unbreakably. Witte may perhaps be a poet's poet still, but there is no reason why he shouldn't have a vast audience.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eAnis Shivani\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Witte surveys our apocalyptic times in this poetry collection. The title of this collection became a kind of slogan during the Covid pandemic. 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Pinned to boards for study, peered at by voyeurs, videoed by neighbors, or vivisected for the greater good, each body in these riveting stories ergoes an unflinching examination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAimee Parkison\u003c\/strong\u003e is widely published and the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including: the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize; the Kurt Vonnegut Prize from \u003cem\u003eNorth American Review\u003c\/em\u003e; the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction; a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship, a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, a Writers at Work Fellowship, a Puffin Foundation Fellowship, and a William Randolph Hearst Creative Artists Fellowship. 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High praise.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eHarold Jaffe\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In Aimee Parkison's \u003cem\u003eSuburban Death Project\u003c\/em\u003e, mysteries abound: insect actors, the DNA of extinct animals preserved in tattoos, a dildo in lapis lazuli, and, above it all, the mystery of just what brave new world of storytelling is this? Playful and effortlessly pleasurable, Parkison's Project is also powerfully human.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eCurtis White\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Parkison is a master of the densely coiled secrets that run rampant within the body\/couple\/suburb\/structure. Nothing is left unmined through this explosive collection packed with subterfuge of gaslighting, stalking and what keeps the game of predator\/prey interesting and provocative. \u003cem\u003eSuburban Death Project\u003c\/em\u003e scrapes the nerves and pierces the heart. Parkison detonates and mesmerizes.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eMeg Tuite\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stephen Dunn once argued that 'the good poem maintains a delicate balance between strangeness and familiarity,' that it 'must make the familiar strange enough to be re-seen or re-felt by the reader.' In that sense—as well as in the lyricism of her exacting sentences—the stories in \u003cem\u003eSuburban Death Project\u003c\/em\u003e are poems... These compelling and memorable fictions will surprise you, and, yes, disturb you, but they will also move you, and reawaken you to the strangeness of the familiar world, and in so doing they will allow you to return to it as if for the first time, as if it were once again a garden.\" -\u003cstrong\u003e George Looney\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Who owns the body? Who owns the self? Who can measure the unfathomable future and can we trust them to tell their findings true? 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The collection, shaped by serious and complex subjects, also features Carol Baskin from \u003cem\u003eTiger King\u003c\/em\u003e, jokes about porn, and truly terrible puns, by design. \u003cem\u003eEcologia\u003c\/em\u003e is profoundly intimate, yet not fragile. These are poems of courage, strength, and faith in the self, no matter the form it might take. The poems soar in songs of celebration and protest, within a form that can best be described as the trans-lyric. Bodies, texts, memories, flowers all transform throughout the work, which brings a mystery and wonder to the collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSophia Anfinn Tonnessen\u003c\/strong\u003e is a graduate of Columbia University, where she earned degrees in Creative Writing and Russian Literature. She presently studies Slavic Literature at the University of Michigan, and lives with hundreds of books and one neglected houseplant. 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A well-crafted, tender collection that emphasizes exploration.\" - \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e— Starred Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tonnessen reaches all the way for the blue divine—and gets there… [Reminding readers that] a basic structure of desire is the mapping of thoughts and wishes into our bodies, and that such mapping changes everything: wish and memory, movement and body, dream and name. The book's wild ride finds its poetry in many modes, from the lyrical to the raucous. 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Matos, equally celebrated for his fiction, poetry, and prose-poetry, pushes toward a new grammar for intersectional identities as the poems in \u003cem\u003eWe Prefer the Damned\u003c\/em\u003e weave his Portuguese-American heritage and bi+ lived experience. Through language turned and punctuated in fresh ways, Matos finds the structures and syntax to embrace past and present, old self and new self. His toughness as a former MMA fighter turns to the finessed strength of rigorous self-examination with these poems. The collection embraces the true complexities of the bi+\/pan\/poly experience, particularly false accusations of not being Queer enough or, simultaneously, of being too sexual and incapable of monogamy. These poems also trace the boundaries where such issues interact with a working-class, child-of-immigrants upbringing, in which the very words for describing bisexuality did not exist. 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Oliver is part of a new wave of transgender writers unafraid to address the complex nuances of transition, examining how gender identity, sexual orientation, feminist allegiance, social class, and family history overlap. His work has appeared in\u003cem\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In\u003cem\u003e Adult Human Male\u003c\/em\u003e, Oliver Radclyffe answers any question you could ever think of to explain what it feels like to be trans in every sense – bodily, politically, socially – and then some, giving us insight into a future where gender is more flexible than two categories... He does so plainly, with a dry humor and a gentle but firm hand that refuses to cede an inch of ground when it comes to the sovereignty of trans bodies and trans lives… Radclyffe's even tone and occasional simmering rage [reminds me] that I, fluid and undefined, am sane… His monograph is a moment of literary calm amid the wild seas of our current political and cultural landscape.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eSophia Anfinn Tonnessen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oliver Radclyffe's \u003cem\u003eAdult Human Male\u003c\/em\u003e is an excoriating response to what he calls the hostile cis perspective — the lie that there are no trans people, just broken cisgender people... But it is more: Interweaving his own story with the political, he makes the fight personal by letting us know him. After\u003cem\u003e Adult Human Male\u003c\/em\u003e, we cannot be neutral — anyone reading it can say they know a trans man and can put a face to the headlines. He writes with deft prose and measured fury, centering himself, his body, as the real thing being attacked in this fight… In Radclyffe's hands, transness becomes intimate and undeniably real.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eAlexander Cheves\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Transness queers everything, which is why so many people are so frightened by it. Oliver Radclyffe has described his own growth and change, and how it felt from the inside. In doing, so he has predicted a future in which gender is not just mutable, but trivial. I can't wait to live in that world, and I love Oliver for forging the path.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eJanet W. 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Hardy's \u003cem\u003eNotes of an Aging Pervert\u003c\/em\u003e considers everything from wrinkles and hair loss to body modification and conscious dying - and how to fit into the changing human forms we end up becoming along the way.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis concise collection of spirited essays and joyful illustrations is often funny, occasionally sad, and sometimes mind-bending. Who among us can actually imagine an existence outside time, space, and the body? Assuredly a great read for anyone whose pathway diverges from the main road, \u003cem\u003eNotes of an Aging Pervert\u003c\/em\u003e is also a book for those who are aging - which is to say everyone. 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The book's title comes from the word for a bit of cartilage on a baby bird's beak, a growth that helps it break out of the egg. Shortly after the bird hatches, the tooth disappears. Like an eggtooth, Nathan's poems are often figures for birth, for the violence of birth and, in his case, rebirth. They follow an unusual and passionate boy from his childhood on a wheat farm in the watershed of the Running Turkey Creek in rural southcentral Kansas — \"the land was always the solace\" — to his life years later in a coastal city.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEcology, family, history, sexuality, and poetry itself are his subjects, but in all these matters, Nathan's rich formal imagination travels our fundamental feelings of alienation and belonging. 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Nathan's ear for language and eye for the intersection of natural splendor and trauma are informed by his youth … melding self-aware metaphor with age-old rigor.\" -\u003cstrong\u003e Kevin Canfield\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If John Donne 'makes one little room an everywhere,' Nathan makes everywhere fit into his intricate rooms. His Kansas poems itemize local idioms and dignify minor moments with word-painting, impasto-thick. His triple-rhymed cadences make him an unusually melodious and affirmative elegist. [Eggtooth] is a tuning fork of regional sonorities, but it's also the original 'call' to poetry, still singing out 'personal and clear,' no matter how long the distance.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eChristopher Spaide\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The first thing one notices when one reads a Jesse Nathan poem is: one's body humming along to the music of his words … the meaning lives in the music here … That is, \u003cem\u003eEggtooth's\u003c\/em\u003e music is so fresh, on both the micro and macro level, as the sound plays a live role in Nathan's explorations of memory, his various investigations into ecology, into poetics of place, into history. There's a generous variousness to this poet's lyric impulse. \u003cem\u003eEggtooth\u003c\/em\u003e is not an ordinary debut but something quite different.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eIlya Kaminsky\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gorgeous … a new sort of sting … as concentrated with meaning as it is with sound. 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He wants us to chew our food thoroughly before we swallow, in the tradition of meticulous makers such as Emily Dickinson and her offspring Heather McHugh and Lisa Russ Spaar. Savor it.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eRon Slate\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Remarkable … ambitious … Here's to our eggteeth.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eNoelle Canty\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Eggtooth] is ornate, highly musical, finding a kind of Marianne Moore-ish delight in expansive description ... 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