Product Description Sophia Anfinn Tonnessen's debut collection, noteworthy for its experimental forms, long poems and intentional repetitions, explores the intersections of gender, identity, and memory across time. Tonnessen is transgender, and her work captures the intense undeniability of an emerging self searching for a new ecology, both biological and political. The collection, shaped by serious and complex subjects, also features Carol Baskin from Tiger King, jokes about porn, and truly terrible puns, by design. ECOLOGIA 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. Book Description A gorgeous and invigorating collection of lyrical trans poetry. About the Author Sophia Anfinn Tonnessen 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. Her work has appeared in Columbia Review, Poet Lore and the anthology New York's Best Emerging Poets.

Ecologia

Literature & Fiction

Tonnessen, Sophia Anfinn

Poetry

Unbound Edition Press

We Prefer the Damned, the 11th book from Carlo Matos, features poems exploring bisexual relationships, erasure and denial. Matos, equally celebrated for his fiction, poetry and prose-poetry, pushes toward a new grammar for intersectional identities as the poems in We Prefer the Damned work to integrate his Portuguese-American heritage and bi+ lived experience. Through language used 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 accusations of not being queer enough or, at the same time, of being too sexual and incapable of monogamy, none of which is true. 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. Recent research from Gallup (February 2021) reveals that Americans identifying as LGBT make up 5.6% of the U.S. population, a substantial increase from years past. Of those, 54.6% identify as bisexual. Gallup estimates more than 3% of all U.S. adults now self-identify as bisexual.

We Prefer the Damned

Matos, Carlo

Literary Nonfiction.\nHow does the devout son of evangelical Christians, growing up dedicated to mission work in Africa, become one of America's leading sex columnists and a self-avowed slut committed to kink as his new religion? Across his debut book, MY LOVE IS A BEAST: CONFESSIONS, Alexander Cheves details his path from piousness to faithlessness, and his awakening to the saving power of hedonism. He tells intimate stories of what he sees as the sacred grace of pleasure as he embraces his life as a sex writer, worker, and activist. In stories richly lyrical, boldly erotic, and fearlessly honest, Cheves takes readers on a tour through Savannah, Atlanta, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City. Along the way, he explores the darker corners of Queer culture and his own life, highlighting experiences most will have never considered. His rise to national popularity among LGBTQ+ writers gets balanced by his own struggles with and recovery from substance use--and his public embrace of kink and fetish as a belief system, way of life, and identity. In the end, Cheves writes with complete, even shocking, transparency and authenticity in the service of shattering sexual shame. Graphic and at times controversial, this book is sure to become a watershed moment among erotic memoirs.\nBook Description\nA fearlessly honest kink memoir.

My Love Is a Beast: Confessions

Biographies & Memoirs

Cheves, Alexander

Professionals & Academics

The twelve stories comprising Suburban Death Project sparkle with disturbing brilliance, revealing in full why Aimee Parkison is so widely celebrated for her innovative narratives and experimental fiction. Suburban Death Project breathes life into what is barely surviving: ill-fated families, frightening relationships, and dangerous loves. With a dark humor serving to make unimaginable traumas both tolerable and knowable, Parkison delves into marriage and mourning, lust and loss, and violence and its aftermath. She exposes the horrors of life in its bodily form and relieves them with a passionate wonder burning so brightly it outshines age, death, and family secrets. In average American households, families haunt each other while still alive as they recompose into dragonflies, peach trees, squirrels, ducks, owls, shadows, tunnels, and zoos of endangered species. Pinned to boards for study, peered at by voyeurs, videoed by neighbors, or vivisected for the greater good, each body in these riveting stories undergoes an unflinching examination.

Suburban Death Project

Parkison, Aimee

Genre Fiction

Highlighting the daily realities of intersectional identity, Alex Wells Shapiro's Insect Architecture examines the environments - urban, built, literary, implied, or denied - where the poet might find a place to thrive as a mixed-race person. This debut collection boldly takes on pressing social issues, advocating for the hope promised by density, whether of population or poetic construction. In doing so, Shapiro complicates the boundaries between personal spaces, between individuals and community. It is within such density - by literal abutments, inside walls, on train tracks, across intersections - that Shapiro finds his place, one that (re)centers the borders, edges, and margins to which so many are now pushed. Shapiro's spaces and relationships focus on everyday details, providing the familiar comforts of belonging. Often experimental yet always accessible, these poems plainly present tangible, specific moments of city life without erasing emotional or symbolic depth. Meaning, for Shapiro, lives on the streets, underfoot, as the body moves through crowded, even conflicted, passages. Within these contemporary concrete mazes, Shapiro explores issues of fragmenting cultures and lifestyles, immense economic inequity, perpetual digital interactions, and rapidly escalating environmental crisis. While his poems analyze and personify widespread cultural and personal anxieties, it is Shapiro's dense poetic architecture which, like a hive, hums with life. For Alex Wells Shapiro, "Buzzing means you are not alone."

Insect Architecture

Shapiro, Alex Wells

Seventy-seven scenes from the life of a sexual outlaw. A horror show come to life, BLUE MOVIE reveals the the brutal unmaking of a human, the terrifying collapse of hope, and the drug-fueled spiral leading to disaster.BLUE MOVIE is one written and cast from the darkest corners of the Internet. In it, readers will witness the brutal unmaking of a human, the terrifying collapse of hope, and the drug-fueled spiral leading to disaster. A sadistic Nazi, a dungeon death, and an arrest for murder are just a few of the shocking moments in this collection of nearly 80 scenes from the life of a sexual outlaw. And, of course, there are surprises around every corner, including a naked, wandering, and blood-covered zombie on the sidewalks of Brooklyn. Stephan Ferris, an activist attorney also known as gay adult star Blue Bailey, stares down the devil--himself--and gets his hellish existence refocused on recovery and serving his community. But are the monsters gone? Has the terror ended? We are left knowing only that everything could shatter into shards in one white cloud of smoke. BLUE MOVIE is harrowing, heartbreaking, unsparing, and will tell others like us they are not alone.-- Alexander Cheves, author MY LOVE IS A BEAST: CONFESSIONSThis book is a rare one. In fact, it is raw in every way . . . and will not disappoint. Truly riveting.--Race Bannon, Author and community leader. . . this haunting tale will go viral . . . Ferris reminds us that humans will do desperate, comical, and even dangerous things to find community.--Amp Somers, Sex educator and co-host, Watts the SafewordStephan Ferris throws us into the fire in his brutally honest and unapologetic true story of hedonistic self-destruction and great personal triumph.-- Sister Roma, Award-winning drag queen activist and entertainerFerris is the hero we need in the movement to reclaim sex and pleasure as expressions of radical authenticity, and his story is an inspiration.--Phillip L. Hammack, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz. . . a courageously candid account of . . . a sexual outlaw, addict finding recovery, and lawyer establishing a professional identity . . . This book will be both a challenge and a comfort.--Morris Ratner, Provost, Academic Dean, and Professor, University of California Hastings College of LawLiterary Nonfiction. Essay. LGBTQ+ Studies.

Blue Movie

Ferris, Stephan

Nicole Robinson's debut collection, Without a Field Guide, combines lyric intensity with narrative sweep. This poet attends to the bare reality of trauma and its aftermath, the challenge of navigating life "without a field guide / to identify who I am or where I'm flying." But if these poems focus on an individual healing process, they also surprise with their wide variety of subjects and tones, as with their depiction of a contemporary America marked by "reactionary blisters" as well as subtle beauties. At the center of the collection lies this poet's unsentimental yet deeply joyful regard for the natural world that she portrays with vivid originality. Immersing herself and her reader in this ecology, Robinson ultimately returns to the human world with a new, hard-won tenderness.

Without a Field Guide

Robinson, Nicole

Eggtooth

Jesse Nathan

Holler: A Poet Among Patriots

Danielle Chapman

Leaders & Notable People

Notes of an Aging Pervert

Janet W. Hardy

Parenting & Relationships

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