Finalist for the National Book Award - Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award - Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award - Winner of the National Jewish...

On December 20, 2009, Bryan Borland's father was killed when his vehicle left a one-lane bridge and plunged into a lake. These are poems from the year that followed.

Selected by Kazim Ali as a winner of the 2019 National Poetry Series, Thrown in the Throat "gloriously stakes new territory in queerness."Finalist for the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery AwardA Boston Globe Best Book of 2020A Lambda Literary "Most Anticipated LGBTQ Book" of August...

The poems have diverse styles of rhyme and blank verse. I've experienced several crises in my time on the planet; some of which have a humorous touch, but others feature the grim or regretful side. Readers may interpret them as they wish. The complexities...

"Even without the preferred methods, one must survive," swears Lovedog, one of the incandescent stars in Lilith Latini's constellation of trans heroines. But these women are far from satisfied with mere survival. Whether fooling around with boys, dancing till sunrise, or just putting together...

Imagoes touches on the queer experience from infacy to its bloom. Collectively, these poets have been published internationally. The group boast a few MFA's, Cave Canem and Watering hole fellows. This book provides insight on the queer experience in the United States and at...

A fast-paced debut that draws upon reservation folklore, pop culture, fractured gospels, and her brother's addiction to methamphetamine

Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz's brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages-bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers-be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by...

"A debut poetry collection showcasing both a fierce and tender new voice."--Booklist"Elegant and playful . . . The poet invents new forms and updates classic ones."--Elle"[Fatimah] Asghar interrogates divisions along lines of nationality, age, and gender, illuminating the forces by which identity is fixed...

This Norton Critical Edition includes: Emily Wilson's authoritative translation of Homer's masterpiece, accompanied by her informative introduction, explanatory footnotes, and book-by-book summaries. Four maps, created especially for this translation. Contextual materials including sources and analogues by Homer, Sappho, Pindar, and others. Also included are...

2006 Coretta Scott King Honor Book In 1955, people all over the United States knew that Emmett Louis Till was a fourteen-year-old African American boy lynched for supposedly whistling at a white woman in Mississippi. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and...

Self-described "black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde is an unforgettable voice in twentieth-century literature, and one of the first to center the experiences of black, queer women. This essential reader showcases her indelible contributions to intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical race studies...

Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and...

The queer lit is back & the third time's the charm! More LGBTQ+ fiction, nonfiction, poetry and scripts from over two-dozen writers, including two from India where homosexuality was only just legalized.

Internationally celebrated poet places her Palestinian-American identity center stage, putting a human face on war, honoring courage, praying for peace.

Cut to Bloom, where Noah Arhm Choi dares to explore the journey of unlearning the survival instinct of trauma. Through the complex hyphen between Asian and American identity, queerness and belonging, and survival and choice, Arhm Choi delves into the heart of what it...

Ellen Bass's Indigo is a nuanced and profound exploration of life's complexities-where joy and devotion meet regret and dependence.

Named a best book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian, Slate, NYLON and The Globe and Mail (Canada) From Durga Chew-Bose, "one of our most gifted, insightful essayists and critics" (Nylon), comes "a warmly considered meld of criticism and memoir" (New Yorker), a lyrical...