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A novel-in-verse reimagining of the Greek myth of Geryon as a queer red-winged boy falling in love with Herakles in the modern world.
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This Wound Is a World
Griffin-winning debut from a Cree poet making a queer Indigenous lyric out of grief, desire, and the political weather of the Canadian state.
Float
Twenty-two loose chapbooks in a clear slipcase, essays, lectures, librettos and poems, that can be read in any order and float against each other.
Alive at the End of the World
Poems written through the pandemic, private loss and public Black death, elegies that refuse to choose between the historical and the personal.
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Vuong's debut moves between a Vietnamese boy's afterlife of war and a queer American coming-of-age, in poems that braid family memory and desire.
Blackouts
A young queer man keeps vigil at the deathbed of an older one, and together they rewrite the redacted margins of a 1940s study of sexual deviance.
Homie
A book-length love letter to the friends who keep Smith alive, in poems that refuse both despair and easy access.
DMZ Colony
National Book Award-winning hybrid of poetry, prose, photos, and drawings that confronts the ongoing American war in Korea through translation and witness.
Time Is a Mother
Poems written after his mother's death, elegies that move through work, opioids and the close quarters of a son's grief.
Postcolonial Love Poem
Pulitzer-winning poems written as a Mojave queer woman in love in an American empire that wants both her land and her body.
The Tradition
Pulitzer-winning collection where Brown's invented duplex form holds up the violence against Black bodies alongside desire, faith, and flowers.
In the Dream House
A memoir of an abusive relationship with another woman, told in short chapters that each borrow a different genre or trope, from haunted house to choose-your-own-adventure.
Romancero Gitano
Lorca's poems channel Andalusian Roma life through surreal and visceral imagery.