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Cheryl Clarke
“Long a recorder of the difficult, juicy moment, the questions of difference, Cheryl Clarke gives us acute highlights along a journey travelled with resolve, pain, joy.” —Audre Lorde
“[Clarke’s] musics are various: strong, or sharp, or quick, or lulling. Rich and requiring.” —Gwendolyn Brooks
The Curators
A Novel
Maggie Nye
“A tale of obsession within the collective, The Curators is a fearful, splendid debut that is both eerie and elegant in its telling.”
—Justin Torres, winner of the National Book Award
Altars of Spine and Fraction
Poems
Nicholas Molbert
“Like saltwater mixing with the rivers of the gulf, Nicholas Molbert’s Altars of Spine and Fraction blends the myriad complexities of the American South with grace and beauty. These coming-of-age poems mark the borders of innocence and experience in powerful and memorable ways. Each poem arcs into the water, and I am consistently amazed at what Molbert’s poems manage to pull ashore.”
—Adam Clay, author of Circle Back: Poems
Find Me When You’re Ready
Poems
Perry Janes
“Janes displays an unabashed earnestness that suggests an authentic need to say what cannot be easily told. He is at the core a storyteller, and as any good storyteller knows, memory has its demands. Read this and be inspired by Janes’s unsparing commitment to self-reclamation and hard-won joy.”
—Vievee Francis, author of The Shared World
Muscle Works
Physical Culture and the Performance of Masculinity
Broderick D.V. Chow
“[A] theoretically sophisticated and historically rich study of the imbrication between fitness culture, performance, theatricality, and masculinity…This is an exciting and welcome new addition to the overlapping libraries of performance theory and queer theory.”
—Joshua Chambers-Letson, Northwestern University
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