POETRY
Continuity Errors
Feminist poems both serious and absurd that question our obsession with productivity instead of with care.
Continuity Errors questions the privileging of work and productivity over rest and care from ...
The Animal in the Room
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, ...
Slows: Twice
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 they can collapse into one another, how it can feel like we are ...
Fire Cider Rain
Poetry that navigates the science of cold waterways to consider the warmth of the poet’s Chinese-Mauritian family ties
Fire Cider Rain is about the limits to which shared cultural and geographic histories ...
Test Piece
Ways of Seeing meets Mary Ruefle in these visual-art-inflected poems
Though they started from Sheryda Warrener’s impulse to see herself more clearly, the poems in Test Piece ended up becoming more expansive ...
Surface Tension
Typography meets poetry at a Pink Floyd laser-light show
In Surface Tension, poetry is liquefied. Flowing away from meaning, letters and words gather and pool into puddles of poetry; street signs and logos ...
Boat
From the author of The Baudelaire Fractal, a poetry classic, with new work
In 2004, boldly original poet Lisa Robertson published a chapbook, Rousseau’s Boat, poems culled from years of notebooks that ...
Whitemud Walking
An Indigenous resistance historiography, poetry that interrogates the colonial violence of the archive
Whitemud Walking is about the land Matthew Weigel was born on and the institutions that occupy that ...
After Beowulf
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hwæt, another Beowulf translation? Not exactly…
Welcome to Denmark’s Heorot Hall, where King Hrothgar invites to his banquet table everyone but Grendel, ...
Heady Bloom
A buddy-cop dramedy starring a bottle of Advil and a headache that won’t quit
Imagine you’re standing in a room, and someone on the other side of the door won’t stop knocking – ever. Welcome to ...