Notes Made While Falling – Jenn Ashworth
Ashworth’s memoir project — “about my body gone missing”— demands that critics likewise confront their stake in narratives of trauma, illness, and disability.
Warhol’s Mother’s Pantry: Art, America, and the Mom in Pop – M. I. Devine
The totality of Devine’s work is steeped in an American mythos to reclaim the synergy of pop songs, poetry, and photography for our own contemporary imagination.
A History of My Brief Body – Billy-Ray Belcourt
From a native queer experience, Belcourt extends what it means to live in a state, to surpass the body’s defined frame, and to practice emoting as transcendence.
My Art is Killing Me and Other Poems – Amber Dawn
My Art is Killing Me reflects what it’s like to intimately carry someone else’s exhale; Dawn’s work becomes like a release of the tension, a liturgy on the job.
Thresholes – Lara Mimosa Montes
It’s essential to respect something about the very fabric of this book-that is, to embrace the holes.