Poetry. Women's Studies. A study of the ways we replicate and resist oppressive social structures, Emily Brandt's FALSEHOOD is a biting, earnest, and sometimes playful reckoning. Stuck in the suburbs of White America, Brandt's speaker scratches the surface of the dreamy veneer and finds worlds of repression, oppression and hidden abuses. Such violences are steeped in a normalcy these poems resist. With remarkable precision, Brandt's potent debut offers a searing meditation on the forces that would control us.

Falsehood

Literature & Fiction

Brandt, Emily

Poetry

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Poetry. Christine Shan Shan Hou's THE JOY AND TERROR ARE BOTH IN THE SWALLOWING offers a new mythology for our "smooth and violent era." Together, these poems map a constellation of desire, addressing "the female pleasure gap," the exhilaration of submission, and all the mundanity and peculiarities of planetary life. Hou asserts that "you cannot rely on algorithms to take you to your destination," instead arduously pushing past habits, expectations, instincts, and other "nameless forces," toward the singular spark of enlightenment. In these fable-like poems, readers traverse landscapes both foreign and familiar. The result is a peregrination towards an afterlife "opaque & without backstory," where tame animals return to the wild and nature forgives us for our failures.

The Joy and Terror are Both in the Swallowing

Hou, Christine Shan Shan

In Luis Chaves's EQUESTRIAN MONUMENTS, the stately figure of a former president, Leon Cortés, is counterbalanced by a cast of mock-heroic or non-normative foils: a cross-dresser, a singleton, homunculus, thief, and gardener. Dialogue from The Exorcist coexists alongside lines from the Latin Kyrie, Rex, while sweeping statements about entire generations, continents, and genres find a basis in the most intimate details of home-life. The intersections are uncanny, sometimes hilarious, often sad and unsettling. Chaves's hyper-caffeinated imagination renders each image in this remarkable collection in a way that orients the reader and provides a moment's stasis and clarity before "the waves come and the waves erase it." Poetry. Translated by Julia Guez and Samantha Zighelboim.

Equestrian Monuments

Chaves, Luis

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Falsehood

The Joy and Terror are Both in the Swallowing

Equestrian Monuments