Books like 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.
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Just Us: An American Conversation
A hybrid of poems, essays, and images documenting Rankine's attempts to hold everyday conversations about whiteness with friends, strangers, and herself.
The Waste Land
A fractured, multilingual vision of postwar spiritual desolation, weaving myth, history, and overheard voices into a portrait of a civilisation in ruins.
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.
Citizen: An American Lyric
A genre-bending work using poetry, essay, and image to document the accumulation of racial microaggressions and violence in everyday American life.
Autobiography of Red
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.
How to Wash a Heart
A book-length monologue from an immigrant guest addressing the white citizen host who is generous, watchful, and does not intend to let her leave.
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
Anne Carson's translation of Sappho's surviving fragments of desire, beauty, and loss.
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.
Map: Collected and Last Poems
The complete poems of Szymborska's working life, from the 1940s to the poems left on her desk when she died.
The Book of Questions
Neruda's last book: seventy-four short poems made entirely of questions, such as why trees conceal the splendour of their roots.
Apeirogon
A Palestinian father and an Israeli father, both of whom have lost daughters to the conflict, drive the territory of their shared loss across a thousand numbered fragments.
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Seventy sonnets written in the first months of the Trump presidency, each an address to an imagined assassin, Black life, and the ghosts of the form.