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Written in Water Written in Water Luis Cernuda While Cernuda’s verse is vivid testimony to various aspects of his biographical itinerary, it is in his prose poems that he traces more explicitly an outline of his life’s journey. Reviewing this wor… OL15274181W
The dirt riddles The dirt riddles Michael Walsh This powerful first collection and winner of the inaugural $5,000 Miller Williams Poetry Prize is literally rooted in the earth and in the world of animal husbandry. You can taste these poems about l… OL15518183W
Love Cake Love Cake Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha In<em> Love Cake</em>, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores how queer people of colour resist and transform violence through love and desire. Refusing to forget the traumas of post 9/11 Islamoph… OL16320751W
Ladlad 2 Ladlad 2 Danton Remoto,J. Neil C. Garcia "What Ladlad seeks to offer not an escape from homosexualization, but an alternative version of it...this book wishes to halt the progress of homophobia by demonstrating, through the power of words a… OL18217133W
An atlas of the difficult world An atlas of the difficult world Adrienne Rich Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In this, her thirteenth book of verse, the author of "The Dream of a Common Language" and "Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law" writes of war, oppression, the f… OL1881406W
Last rights Last rights Marvin K. White "The poems collected in LAST RIGHTS portray caring, humanness, family or kinship, humor, despair, ordinary problems and unqualified love as they occur in the everyday lives of homosexuals. With the q… OL1935246W
Gutted Gutted Justin Chin While trying to make sense of this ever-churning, terror-filled world, poet Justin Chin found himself traveling repeatedly home to Southeast Asia—a region unnerved and raging with SARS and the Avian … OL1953212W
Prayers for my 17th chromosome Prayers for my 17th chromosome Amir Rabiyah "Amir Rabiyah is a magician who has tasted salt of the creation story's sea. The cleaving of human to spirit found in Prayers for My 17th Chromosome is a blood tangle that will kiss your cells till y… OL19740381W
Poems of the black object Poems of the black object Ronaldo V. Wilson Poetry. African American Studies. Asian American Studies. LGBT Studies. Winner of the Publishing Triangle's 2010 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry and the 13th Annual Asian American Literary Award for P… OL19936114W
Rise in the fall Rise in the fall Ana Božičević Poetry. LGBT Studies. Ana Božičević is both a poet's poet and the people's poet. RISE IN THE FALL, her second full-length collection, is a revolutionary book and an ars poetica for the polis in which… OL19964842W
Thief in the interior Thief in the interior Phillip B. Williams "This gorgeous debut is a 'debut' in chronology only. . . . Need is everywhere—in the unforgiving images, in lines so delicate they seem to break apart in the hands, and in the reader who will enter … OL20023357W
The complete works of Pat Parker The complete works of Pat Parker Pat Parker "During her lifetime, Pat Parker was a renowned African-American, lesbian-feminist poet and performer. She was the author of Jonestown & Other Madness (1985), Movement in Black (1978, 1983, 1989, 199… OL20046441W
Rock/salt/stone Rock/salt/stone Rosamond S. King Rock|Salt|Stone sprays life-preserving salt through the hard realities of rocks, stones, and rockstones used as anchors, game pieces, or weapons. The manuscript travels through Africa, the Caribbean,… OL20055260W
Lo terciario / The Tertiary Lo terciario / The Tertiary Raquel Salas Rivera Written in response to the PROMESA bill (Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act) bill, LO TERCIARIO/THE TERCIARY offers a decolonial queer critique and reconsideration of Marx.… OL20546290W
Yes, I am! Yes, I am! Robin Malan,Ashraf Johaardien Yes, I am! is a collage of what it is like to be South African, and male and gay. The experiences of some forty writers come together, in stories, poems, letters, diary-entries, SMSes and emails ... OL22395775W
Glitter & Grit Glitter & Grit Damien Luxe,Heather María Ács,Sabina Ibarrola Over 60 risk-taking queer femmes and LGBTQ artists contribute to this groundbreaking cross-disciplinary collection of solo-performance, creative nonfiction, poetry, photos, plays, tour stories + pro … OL24631481W
Mr. Bluebird Mr. Bluebird Gerry Pearlberg From the spewing smokestacks of corporate culture run amok to charting the course of an oncoming dusk, the poems in Mr. Bluebird bring eco-poetry and urban pastoral to exciting new places. Mr. Bluebi… OL2745572W
Ceremonies Ceremonies Essex Hemphill Ceremonies offers provocative commentary on highly charged topics such as Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs of African-American men, feminism among men, and AIDS in the black community. OL4272640W
Liquid love and other longings Liquid love and other longings Norman G. Kester Love is rich like the sea--distant, painful, explosive, lyrical and sensually alive. In Liquid Love and Other Longings, poet and writer Norman G. Kester bares his soul and paints amour passionately, … OL5992564W
Ten Commandments Ten Commandments J. D. McClatchy Ten Commandments is a book-length sequence of poems that plot the rules we were raised on, rules we forget but can't evade. Here is the whole underworld of desire, its tasks and perversions. Here are… OL8036871W
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