Keith Garebian splices together an engaging book-length portrait of a filmmaker, visual artist, poet, sexual rebel, and gardener who double-dared the conventions of art, desire, and filmmaking. In this life-affirming, cinematic, at turns randy and elegiac verse-biography Garebian celebrates Derek Jarman, one of the world's truly unforgettable and rebellious spirits. >>
In a deeply personal narrative that explores power, sexual manipulation, cultural consumption and trust, Body Trade asks the ultimate question: To what terrifying places will we journey, and at what cost, in order to save our own lives? >>
If Body Work begins by writing desire through a belief in the stability of the physical body, this is undone in exploring symptoms of disease, new self-knowledge and rewriting one’s personal story. Because Body Work explicitly undertakes to write of a protracted and often painful period of chronic illness, these poems complicate notions of ability and disability. >>
Both Boys Climb Trees They Can’t Climb Down
Both Boys Climb Trees They Can’t Climb Down is a poetry collection about lost homes. In this book, Stephanie Yorke explores a crumbling, quasi-rural landscape with both great affection and great scorn, probing the irreconcilable sentiments that home inevitably invokes. >>
Andy Quan recounts a series of firsts: first time listening to Joni Mitchell's Blue, first loss of a friend, first dance with a man. Building on earlier explorations of memory, sexuality, and culture that are the signatures of his best work, Bowling Pin Fire transcribes the arc of one man's life. >>
Butter Cream: A Year in a Montreal Pastry School
Butter Cream is the chronicle of an intense year of learning and tasting, dramas at the stove and in the locker room. It's about fights, friendship and competition, fallen cakes and rising doughs. And sometimes, unexpectedly, it's about the sheer joy of baking. >>
A moving journal in verse, Cancer Songs is poet Richard Sommer’s response to his diagnosis and treatment for prostate cancer. Often, these are songs of newly discovered yearning, courage and awe; they are songs of refusal to go under, to surrender to the undertow of the disease. >>
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