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‘I just don’t believe that man is made of flesh and blood.’ - Jack Johnson, World Heavyweight Boxing Champion

Pain was Joe Grim’s self-expression, ...

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Backward and forward: a double book of mirrored poems about identity in all its forms.

This is a book of slow hours, days, and years—how ...

Deer with binoculars, wolves with resumes: bioengineered poetry that unsettles truth, fact, and history.

Animals are strange testing grounds for thinking about subjectivity, language, the body — really, ...

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Feminist poems both serious and absurd that question our obsession with productivity instead of with care.

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‘Cat Person’ meets Station Eleven in this apocalyptic depiction of toxic masculinity.

An unnamed man is spending the evening with ...

Boy meets Girl, Boy marries Girl, and years later Boy mysteriously disappears in this Gordon Lish–style novel.

People are disappearing. And when they return, they can't say where they've been: "I was ...

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A novel about Berlin: a city for artists and libertines, a perfect place to find love ...

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When the pandemic forces a family to return to the mother’s childhood home, she seeks meaning in her ancestral roots and the violent ...