“Eric Pankey writes poems that give us back, if not the world, our relation to it.” —DAN BEACHY-QUICK
Selected by Kazim Ali as a winner of the 2019 National Poetry Series, Thrown in the Throat “gloriously stakes new territory in queerness.”
“[This collection] feels like we’re holding a small thunderstorm in our hands.” —AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL
“I will read more books in my life but I will not love another book more than this one.” —MARY-LOUISE PARKER
From “one of the preeminent American visionaries of our moment” (G. C. Waldrep), a singular reflection on living well in a time of distraction and despair
“Reading Ali is an act of redemption . . . both a challenge and a balm.” —THE RUMPUS
“Beautiful and timely work . . . Lush and obsessed and frantic and deathy.” —FRANCINE J. HARRIS
From Fady Joudah, an elegant collection of poems that shifts deftly between the microscope, the telescope, and the horoscope.
“If whatever it means ‘to become’ has a sound, Devon Walker-Figueroa can hear it.” —SALLY KEITH
“Like nothing else in the newspaper, [Renkl’s columns] burst with awareness of the things of nature. . . . All is written with an open, joyful, yet steady voice of wonder.”—Philadelphia Inquirer
A collection that explores the myth of Echo and Narcissus, offering a reboot, a remix, a reimagining—and holding up the broken mirror of myth to late-stage capitalism, social media, and our present-day selves.
“A wonderful place to start if you’ve never read Wagamese, a must-read if you have, and an indispensable read for everyone.” —LITERARY HUB