She wrestles and keens, freezes and thaws in private, in public, and alongside a group of people “with whom a shared sense of intimacy and care earned from years of study together makes possible a warm way of thinking.”
The Equestrian Turtle and Other Poems – César Moro
Through a surrealist style, the poet plunges us into the complexities of a homoerotic love and into the depths of his symbolism.
Love in a F*cked-Up World – Dean Spade
“To me,” writes Spade, “LOVE is a clear extension of the questions at the heart of my previous work: How do we build lasting and effective resistance movements? What are the barriers, and how do we overcome them?”
Audition by New Zealand writer Pip Adam starts with an unconventional premise. Three giants (Stanley, Alba, and Drew) are in a spaceship named Audition; their bodies keep growing if they remain silent, but their noise is what propels the ship in space, so they have to keep talking.
At times, it reads like a breathless impatience for the release of an orgasm: “Upon hearing the longed-for sound of the door after heaving my weight against it, I quickly put the key I’m already holding into the lock of my apartment and turn it, and once this second anticipated sound has been confirmed, I slip inside the door.”
Far from lampooning the men at this ego crisis’s center, as is customary online, Ess’s novel Darryl takes us into the mind of a self-described “cuckold” with nuance, humor, and most importantly, empathy.
A series of odes to material culture and social structures, Debt Ritual is a project through which the writer is working out questions increasingly fundamental to the vocation of writing.
The Arcana of Reproduction: Housewives, Prostitutes, Workers and Capital – Leopoldina Fortunati
In addition to being rigorous, Fortunati’s text is ruthless, stripping away every plank of Marx’s platform to show the underside of labor, the women’s work that wasn’t worth his noting.
Shelby Hinte’s debut novel HOWLING WOMEN investigates curiosity over blame, looking at the story beneath action.
Todos Los Caminos Llevan a Casa – Luis J. Rodríguez
TODOS LOS CAMINOS bridges two important language communities and invites them to find each other through poetry.