A Study of Hands is an attempt to remove male intimacy from its sheath. It is an incision into Bodney's last relationship, as well as the ongoing one he has with his father. It is the peeling of layers from his own experiences of love and abuse with the men in his life and how that translates into the ways he communicates vulnerability. It is a reconstruction of safety while navigating the revolution that is continuing to define Bodney, what it means to survive, and to love all at once.

A Study of Hands

Literature & Fiction

Bodney, Edwin

Poetry

Not a Cult

The poems in this series are based on Lanford Wilsonâ€™s Pulitzer Prize-winning play â€œTalleyâ€™s Folly.â€ The play takes place in rural Missouri on July 4, 1944 in a boathouse belonging to the Talley family. It is the ninety-seven minute courtship of Sally Talley, a nurseâ€™s aide from a Protestant family, by Matt Friedman, an accountant and German-Jewish refugee. One year before the events of the play, the two had met and had a week-long affair, during which theyâ€™d fallen in love. However, each being the keeper of great secrets and intense private traumas, theyâ€™d decided to part ways. Over the course of the play it is revealed that Matt, unable to fully let go, had been writing and sending a letter per day to Sally before finally deciding to come back, confess his love, tell his story, and ask her to marry him. These poems come out of the rehearsal process of the play in which the author worked on the role of Matt. They were intended as a way in which to generate a greater understanding of the character, but ended up taking on a life of their own; exploring the space between actor and role, and as communion between withheld desire, perceived unlovability, Jewishness, loss of faith in the body and the spaces the body occupies, and ultimately, a tremulous sort of hope.

Dear Sal

Radin, Jeremy

HOW THE BODY WORKS THE DARK is the new, long awaited collection of love poems from one of Americaâ€™s most beloved touring poets, Derrick C. Brown. These haunting, funny, erotic love poems fit neatly into the canon of Brownâ€™s quotable style. This book is the perfect way to say I need you now, right now. Mostly written in the Channel Islands, Los Angeles, Texas, and Serenbe Develpoment in the Chattahoochee Hills of Georgia, these poems are feisty and capture the human experience of being horny and beautiful at the same time. There is a yearning in these poems, a fire set bright that burns hotter than ever. â€œOur love is a lake full of lightning.â€

How the Body Works the Dark: Love Poems by Derrick C. Brown

Brown, Derrick C.

ICONS is a series of 100 semi-fictionalized portraits of LA's eccentric personalities. Parker Day is a Los Angeles based artist whose work explores identity and the masks we wear. Through costuming and exaggerated expressions, Day toys with the truth of who and what she portrays. She deliberately eschews Photoshop in favor of in-camera capture on film. Lurid color bathes her work and heightens the surreality of her subjects while the grain and grit of the photographs make them palpably real.

Icons

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Pizza Witch cards are a modern take on divination. Instead of using traditional tarot imagery, they reference pop culture (the mosquito in amber from Jurassic Park), real places (the now-closed Lusty Lady peep show in San Francisco), imaginary places (Hernando's Hideaway from the '50s musical The Pajama Game), folklore (La Llorona), Greek and personal mythology (Medea and This Glorious Bear, respectively), and daily life (The Mystery Text).

Pizza Witch

Andujar, Courtney

Corazón

Corazón is a love story. It is about the constant hunger for love. It is about feeding that hunger with another person and finding that sometimes it isn’t enough. Salgado creates a world in which the heart can live anywhere; her fat brown body, her parents home country, a lover, a toothbrush, a mango, or a song. It is a celebration of heartache, of how it can ruin us, but most importantly how we always survive it and return to ourselves whole.

Salgado, Yesika

Tesoro

Tesoro is a story of family, survival, and the formative power of the women in Salgado’s life. It is a telling of the balance between love and perseverance. Tesoro is an unearthing of the sacred connections that make a person whole; the treasure we forever keep with us when we learn from those we love, when we mourn those we’ve lost, and what grows in between.

HOW TO PULL APART THE EARTH is an homage to the intrinsic thread that weaves the culture of Mexico together with the United States, and the echo of colonization that works to erase it. Cordero skillfully exemplifies the complexity &amp; beauty of growing up in a borderland, and the sacrifices paid for the dream.

How to Pull Apart the Earth

Cordero, Karla

A modern book of shadows, updated for a new era. Priestess&nbsp;is a concept visual art book meets witch's grimoire, filled with antidotes, spells, mantras, prose, and original art intertwined within the pages by Artist and Psychic Medium, Marcella Kroll. A biography of a witch without being a memoir, this is a modern book of shadows updated for a new era.

Priestess: Second Edition

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

If the word stanza means “room”, then this book is an orchard. Rhiannon McGavin crafts poems with scraps of the everyday, from dream diaries to postcards. She scavenges for healing inside of lines that rise and break like bread. Led by emotions “real as the mosaic air between screen and projector”, McGavin explores what it means to become your own calendar.

Grocery List Poems

McGavin, Rhiannon

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