Fiction. UNCHECKED SAVAGERY, Glenn Shaheen's first collection of flash fiction, introduces the reader to a tragicomic universe where bad jokes become pathos-laden impetus, media landscapes are transformed into loci of passion and intrigue, and the intimate territory of the uncertain relationship becomes a funny, hellish adventure. Shaheen's eye for detail and ear for threats wither archetypes, seeking the sublime glimpses memorialized here: assignations on a night train, the game of love made suddenly desperate, the fragile body in unkind hands.

Unchecked Savagery

Literature & Fiction

Shaheen, Glenn

Contemporary

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Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. This book- length lyric essay provides gently incisive scrutiny of the processes (biological, social, psychological, cultural, even economic) of planned motherhood. Kiefer employs verse, memoir, reportage, and a quietly tenacious prose narrative to style a private moment- by-moment mosaic of experience. Discussions of gender and privilege blend seamlessly with larger, core interrogations of the body itself—that which perseveres and triumphs, that which fails in myriad ways and despairs helplessly of those failures—that which creates and that which betrays itself.

Nestuary

Kiefer, Molly Sutton

Poetry

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. African American Studies. Harmony Holiday's tête-bêche book-length lyric essay collection GO FIND YOUR FATHER/A FAMOUS BLUES immerses itself and its readers in a deeply personal interrogation of perhaps the most difficult subjects of all: love and family legacy. Holiday addresses these topics in verse, prose, and, most affectingly, in letters to her father—the late singer-songwriter Jimmy Holiday. Through these notes as well as her poems bearing long, ambitious, uncompromising lines, Holiday explores how we distill our own identities from memories and responsibilities bound up in tenderness and violence. "Do any black children grow up casual? Naw, we grow up shipped, knowing that we are loved but knowing more than that, that terror, that knowing is scrawled money for our bank. We're sure-shot and avoided, singing blue devil blues like a black and blue disciple, out from Sallis, Attala off delta, change-played, flowed to that subcommon up-river fate, our Waterloo and phonic quarry, step-sharp, sharp-squared, strait- shawled, boot-sharp visitor, made for walking, talking remnant of an extra- impossible accord, then Los Angeles. Resonances and renascence of everywhere we come from, Harmony, deepest Holiday since Jason, since Jimmy, having gone to find him, makes these missive runs, assured of her allure but running from and in that into open, unsure dream. She sees it's getting late. Her archive has a microtonal blush. Sightsound, as Russell Atkins says. Can you say what it is to sing a song of love I can show you, right here, ask me now."—Fred Moten

Go Find Your Father/A Famous Blues

Holiday, Harmony

History & Criticism

Literary Nonfiction. This anthology is a collection of some of the most exciting voices in the field of writing, art, and activism. Each contributor considers different aspects of aesthetics, from what beauty means to them to how disability has informed their practice. Here artists and writers dive deep into how notions of identity, language, and history play out in their work. Contributors include Kazim Ali, Jennifer Bartlett, Josh Bell, CA Conrad, Camille T. Dungy, Mary Gaitskill, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Carmen Giménez Smith, Arielle Greenberg, Elizabeth Hall, Brenda Hillman, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Bob Holman, Bhanu Kapil, Douglas Kearney, Paul Legault, Sandra Lim, MANDEM, Shane McCrae, Lynn Melnick, Philip Metres &amp; Mark Nowak, Ben Mirov, Eileen Myles, Hoa Nguyen, Alice Notley, James Romberger &amp; Marguerite Van Cook, giovanni singleton, Molly Sutton Kiefer, Mathew Timmons, Derek White, Simone White, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Emily Wolahan, and Maged Zaher.

Among Margins

Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. 2017 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Transgender Poetry. Through a combination of lyric, narrative, &amp; fractured essay, SYMPATHETIC LITTLE MONSTER attempts to make a space &amp; a shape for the little girl who haunts our cultural/ personal narratives about blackness &amp; transmasculinity. As a trans coming-of-age text the work is intensely inward-focused, but it resists the imperative of linear autobiography. Instead, it uses the personal as a tool to explore what kind of thing a "self" is, its relation to trauma &amp; objectification, &amp; its capacity to be multiple.

Sympathetic Little Monster

Awkward-Rich, Cameron

Poetry. Music. African American Studies. FUGUE MEADOW listens to, thinks alongside, dwells within Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell's legendary Mu sessions, one of the twentieth-century music's unclassifiable masterpieces. Recorded in Paris in 1969, Cherry and Blackwell accumulate vast silences, harmonies and disharmonies, vast plural and interlaced musics to think and counter, to protest, to heal the violences of what the Vietnamese called "The American War," Richard Nixon's Law and Order racists police state, and something of the general world situation through a studied and richly complex "world" music. The poems of FUGUE MEADOW are a patient response to this recording session's embedded colonial and post-colonial histories. As their poems unfold, or enfold, FUGUE MEADOW seeks to understand, and conjure the other kinds of thought and history that open up and are made possible by Cherry and Blackwell's singularly aesthetic and conceptual flight, their exile to the Old World, their burrowing out of and into old and new ways of thinking and feeling and being. Through their tracings and erasures and in their music, these poems hope to awaken, to voice, to re-score, to re-learn, to say again, and to widen the mythic's ensembles.

Fugue Meadow

Jones, Keith

Fiction. The small future parables of ASSUMPTIONS WE MIGHT MAKE ABOUT THE POSTWORLD take place in a world very much like our own--and not--weaving what amounts to a beguiling meditation on inconsolable loss. In the mundane dailiness of this world, men and women of forbearance and good nature embrace world-altering anomalies of difference--a missing part, a troubling cough, a lack of body altogether--with carefree insouciance, while somewhere just the next story over, amorphous aliens gorge on seconds, vast schools of glittering fish appear out of nowhere for secret visitations in the night, and a tiny private tear rends an opening in the fabric of the universe itself. Meantime, all they ever wanted-- all any of them ever wanted--was something they might call grace before everything disappears altogether in the postworld, when herds of unrecognizable animals inherit the earth.

Assumptions We Might Make About the Postworld

Haake, Katharine

Genre Fiction

"Unputdownable. Young gay sex and super mundane details--two things I love, together." --Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man "Surprisingly touching, People I've Met From the Internet is a brilliantly written, taxonomic account of growing up queer in turn-of-the-millennium Albuquerque, Los Angeles, and beyond." --Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick "This is an impressive work, modern, relevant, powerfully startling in its effect." --John Rechy, author of City of Night Stephen van Dyck's PEOPLE I'VE MET FROM THE INTERNET is a queer reimagining of the coming-of-age narrative set at the dawn of the internet era. In 1997, AOL is first entering suburban homes just as thirteen-year-old Stephen is coming into his sexuality, constructing selves and cruising in the fantasyscape of the internet. Through strange, intimate, and sometimes perilous physical encounters with the hundreds of men he finds there, Stephen explores the pleasures and pains of growing up, contends with his mother's homophobia and early death, and ultimately searches for a way of being in the world. Spanning twelve years, the book takes the form of a very long annotated list, tracking Stephen's journey and the men he meets from adolescence in New Mexico to post-recession adulthood in Los Angeles, creating a multi-dimensional panorama of gay men's lives as he searches for glimpses of utopia in the available world.

People I've Met From The Internet

Biographies & Memoirs

Stephen van Dyck

Regional U.S.

Literary Nonfiction. GHOST/HOME: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO BEING HAUNTED traces the course of a disease through a body, a ghost through a home, and a feeling through the language that tries to hold it. How does illness travel through us? What do we do with the parts of ourselves we feel but cannot grasp? Where are the ghosts in our lives, and what are their names? In diagrams of ghosts, readings of Clarice Lispector, photographs, interviews, and lyric prose, GHOST/HOME extends these questions into uncharted territory. The chapbook seeks to do the impossible: to diagram the elusive, the invisible, the haunting. Like its cover--an early Anna Atkins cyanotype, which transforms an image of algae into a ghostly figure--GHOST/HOME transforms the experience of living with Crohn's disease into an incalculable, invisible, but pervasive entity."Through urgent, intimate prose and diagrams of hauntings, GHOST/HOME shows us that ghosts are more than billowing curtains and flashes of light--ghosts are Crohn's, ghosts are history, ghosts are feelings with nowhere to go. Rather than an exorcism, Sweeney coordinates a calling-in, a reckoning with the spirits that move through his body and shape his life."--Amy Berkowitz"'You don't have to go far to find the ghost in you,' Dennis Sweeney writes in his beautiful and contemplative work, GHOST/HOME. Tracing the invisible thread that somehow tethers a body, its complex relationship with inhabiting and being inhabited, the conjurations here operate as compassionately examined intricacies of living in a wounded body. Sweeney masterfully weaves a narrative around being haunted, the irrecoverable condition of occupying a body as both occupied and occupier, a deeply embodied 'I' that seeks healing and transformative recognition within a space that is reluctant to dispel its ghosts. A tender embrace, this text will haunt you and heal you. A remarkable work; I couldn't recommend this more."--Janice Lee"What is it to be inhabited? What happens when it's your body that is haunted? Whose is your body anyway? GHOST/HOME asks all the right questions about flesh and spirit and health and not-health and how we live with our inheritances. All that and Clarice Lispector too!! An auspicious book."--Rebecca Brown

Ghost/Home: A Beginner's Guide to Being Haunted

Sweeney, Dennis James

Essays & Correspondence

Poetry. THE HATCHET AND THE HAMMER is part long poem, part essay in fragments, about real and imagined violence. In this chapbook, the writer looks back at three intersecting traumas--the unraveling of a long-term relationship with a partner with a diagnosis of Harm OCD, the death of her father due to prolonged alcoholism, and a story she learns of how her grandfather once attacked her grandmother with a hammer. Here, the writer attempts to make meaning from trauma and interrogate her own role in these fractured relationships. The chapbook takes a layered, polyvocal approach by collaging lines from poets, medical research, and other found texts. At the heart of this project, driving it like an engine, is a central question--how do I know when I have the truth about myself?"In a deeply felt and carefully braided mix of personal history, poetic reference, and psychological research, THE HATCHET AND THE HAMMER is an intensely lyrical examination of violence--violence as old as the hills, and violence as new as the pharmaceuticals taken to counteract it. The work here is fearless, disturbing, haunting, honest. And, ultimately, redemptive. Scarano is a poet worthy of our full attention."--Daryl Farmer"'Doesn't sickness require a period of wellness / to be measured against?' Essential questions surrounding the body and sickness are the obsession of Caitlin Scarano's speaker in this book, which is part-prose, part-poem, and wholly concerned with what circumstances of life are survivable. In a book-length narrative, hybridity becomes a thing of the self, of the world, of relationships, of the body living with disease. Rife with research, these conflicts are further demonstrated by fractured language and image on each page. But, 'there is always a line:' what survives and what doesn't. This book is a triumph of language and its uses. Of the ways experience can be translated. It pulls the reader into its grief chorus through the wonder of those living with sickness, through the conditions that make our lives (im)possible."--Chelsea Dingman

The Hatchet and the Hammer

Scarano, Caitlin

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