At last, the first collection of poems from the Pulitzer Prize and Lambda Literary Award winning Cuban-American author Achy Obejas.The poems in This Is What Happened In Our Other Life form a handbook
Fifty powerful and unsettling untitled poems make up this mesmerizing collection by distinguished Slovenian writer Brane Maletic.In these poems, Mozetic confronts meaninglessness and pleasure, melanc
The Early Renaissance game of Tarot inspired poetry centuries before it was used for fortune telling. The poems in Fortune's Lover do not explain the Tarot so much as spinoff from it.From accounts of
Poetry. LGBT Studies. In her first collection, Julie R. Enszer offers poems that are as unabashedly erotic as they are unabashedly feminist. Whether responding to queer cultural icons, fantasizing abo
Do not be afraid of your face Move into a beam of light in the bar. Smile openly Watch his hands move quicker than strobe lights as he surveys the crowd with his friends Do not think of how hard it m
Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated by Stephen Watts and Golan Haji. "In Golan Haji's poems and prose-poems, fable and myth are incised into history and contemporanaeity, al-Ma'arri's verses ar
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Women's Studies. In the Jewish tradition, Lilith's punishment for rejecting Adam and disobeying God is to give birth to one hundred demons at twilight every night. These demons
Poetry. Drama. California Interest. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. "Parker stayed woke to black suffering, violence against black bodies—especially those of black women—to the su
Poetry. Women's Studies. Translated from the Lithuanian by Rimas Uzgiris. Ilze Butkute's poems are peopled with dwarves and lovers, magicians and cats, who navigate both the daylight and the darkness
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. Poets Audre Lorde and Pat Parker first met in 1969; they began exchanging letters regularly five year
Poetry. California Interest. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. PARA LAS DURAS: UNA FEMENOMONOLOGÍA LESBIANA / FOR THE HARD ONES: A LESBIAN PHENOMENOLOGY, originally published in 2002,
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. This new printing has French flaps. "Julie Marie Wade's lush post-confessional poems are unabashed in their desire, tentative then bold in their knowledge. They're sparkly tal
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Translated by David Colmer. Dutch writer Edward van de Vendel, well-known for his young adult novels and children's books, explores the thrills and chills of adolescent love i
Poetry. Women's Studies. Translated from the Latvian by Jayde Will. Inga Piz?ne captures a vibrant inner and outer life that moves seamlessly between the domestic landscape of the home and the streets
Poetry. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. "Julie Marie Wade's SAME-SEXY MARRIAGE does not succumb to the gravitational forces of the quotidian--the 'respectable' marriage or the 'dignified' jet-settin