“for I am a dirty bird/no wire cage can save” -Joan Larkin, “Chicken” Joan Larkin has been praised extensively for...
"Using rhythm and invented rhyme as a vehicle, the poems in Prelude to Bruise sing a song of the self that manages to be both highly personal and wholly recognizable." Read More
"With two volumes containing poems, essays, and experimental writing, this retrospective encapsulates the riveting and powerful nature of Adnan’s unique voice [...]" Read More
How do you sleep when the siren is your own exhaled cry: “Oh Christ” –From “Only Kissing”, by Suzanne Parker...
“Ruby had felt it then. The audacious hope of rooted things. The innocent anticipation of the shooting stalks, the quivering...
Shinner weaves together historical fact, socio-political theory, and personal experience to create essays that grapple with our culture's multitudinous interactions with the body. Read More
Give It To Me is a story about complicated love, the taboo of desire, and survival. A must-read for all of us out there who have seen it all, and lived. Read More
Though the book demonstrates an intimacy as telling as a photo album, the ultimate message of the collection is clear: no matter how deeply you might know a place, the world does not belong to you, and you can claim no ownership. Read More
In this memoir, the reader obtains access to a nontraditional narrative of caretaking: Gore takes on the task of seeing her mother through her dying days, while also confronting cycles of abuse and manipulation in their relationship. Read More
Oh, sweetheart. How can I explain this to you, when you have so little experience of meanness? When your whole...
