Andrew has a soft spot (some call it an arrested fontanelle) for poetry, fiction, memoir, music, nonfiction, and films that explore the absurd and irrational aspects of the human condition. The more it delves into our struggle with identity and persona, the longing for connection in an atomized society, and the dis-ease the modern technological world causes that pushes some towards seeking absolute certainty in an ambiguous world, sometimes to extreme and reactionary ends, all the better. He also likes kittens.
Unwieldy Creatures, a biracial, queer, gender-swapped retelling of Mary Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein, follows the story of three beings who all navigate life from the margins: Plum, a queer biracial Chinese intern at one of the world's top…
First published in French in 1994, quickly acclaimed as a photobook classic and since republished and enhanced, True Stories returns for the sixth time, gathering a series of short autobiographical texts and photos by acclaimed French artist Sophie…
From confronting the painful specter of past experiences to finding solace in unexpected places, Kramer's words resonate with raw emotion and poignant reflection. In her verses, she navigates the journey of overcoming challenges with heartfelt odes…
"A provocative, raucous dark comedy about race and racism in America, now back in print after twenty-five years. Negrophobia, with its outrageous and electrifying mix of screenplay, poetry, and performance piece on paper, pushes the conventional…
"The N-Word of God is a literary graphic novel of interconnected stories of social insight, cognitive surprise, wry mirth, and black existential wonder. Return to the universe's beginning when 'God' fatefully declared Light and Dark opposing forces.…
A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship,…
A movie within a movie; on the surface, the film is about a director whose wife Camille falls out of love with him while he is rewriting an adaptation of Homer's ODYSSEY for an American producer. But underneath this tragic tale of a doomed romance…
Soft Science explores queer, Asian American femininity. A series of Turing Test-inspired poems grounds its exploration of questions not just of identity, but of consciousness—how to be tender and feeling and still survive a violent world filled with…
With allusions to David Bowie and interplanetary travel, Life on Mars imagines a soundtrack for the universe to accompany the discoveries, failures, and oddities of human existence. In these brilliant new poems, Tracy K. Smith envisions a sci-fi…
Frederick Seidel has been called many things. A “transgressive adventurer,” “a demonic gentleman,” a “triumphant outsider,” “a great poet of innocence,” and “an example of the dangerous Male of the Species,” just to name a few. Whatever you choose…
In What Narcissism Means to Me, award-winning poet Tony Hoagland levels his particular brand of acute irony not only on the personal life, but also on some provinces of American culture. In playful narratives, lyrical outbursts, and overheard…
"In this knock-out collection, Major Jackson savors the complexity between perception and reality, the body and desire, accountability and judgment. Inspired by the philosophy of Albert Camus, Major Jackson's fifth volume subtly configures the poet…
Imbued with ravishing imagery, these exuberant and lyrical explorations of aging, longing, and death demonstrate Ackerman's full engagement with every aspect of life's process. Ackerman muses on the confines of therapy sessions, where she intersects…
The Möbius Strip Club of Grief is a collection of poems that take place in a burlesque purgatory where the living pay—dearly, with both money and conscience—to watch the dead perform scandalous acts otherwise unseen: “$20 for five minutes. I’ll hold…
Richard Siken’s Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful collection of poems driven by obsession and love. Siken writes with ferocity, and his reader hurtles unstoppably with him. His poetry is confessional,…
She howls like Medea for her losses, possessive and womanly in her rage--she seems to be trying to beat her way out of her own head; but still she is eager to show us that she is locked in with no ordinary stuff, her fantasies big and physical.…
