{"title":"The BOA Audiobook Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe BOA Audiobook Series, created in 2021, presents a new way to engage with your favorite BOA authors! Each book is narrated by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"fuel","title":"Fuel","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThis title is available on audiobook! Get your copy here, or wherever you listen to audiobooks! \u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1207919614\u0026amp;color=%23c05c18\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-572920496\" title=\"BOA Editions\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBOA Editions\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-572920496\/estate-sale-by-naomi-shihab-nye\" title='\"Estate Sale\" by Naomi Shihab Nye' style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\"Estate Sale\" by Naomi Shihab Nye\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the poem, \"Bill's Beans,\" dedicated to her mentor, William Stafford, Naomi Shihab Nye writes of finding beans, \"under the leaves, they're secretly long and curling.\/ I pull a perfect question mark and two lean twins, \/ feeling the magnetic snap of stem, the ripened weight.\" In this poetry collection, Nye continually shows us how to look \"under the leaves\" as she writes on topics ranging from the border families of southern Texas, small ferns and forgotten books, to Jews and Palestinians in the Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHidden\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you place a fern\u003cbr\u003eunder a stone\u003cbr\u003ethe next day it will be\u003cbr\u003enearly invisible\u003cbr\u003eas if the stone\u003cbr\u003ehas swallowed it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you tuck the name of a loved one\u003cbr\u003eunder your tongue too long\u003cbr\u003ewithout speaking it\u003cbr\u003eit becomes blood\u003cbr\u003esigh\u003cbr\u003ethe little sucked-in breath of air\u003cbr\u003ehiding everywhere\u003cbr\u003ebeneath your words.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo one sees\u003cbr\u003ethe fuel that feeds you.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd 1998 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46627073818853,"sku":"1880238632","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46627073851621,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/FUEL.jpg?v=1527683265"},{"product_id":"red-suitcase","title":"Red Suitcase","description":"\u003ch4\u003eThis title is available on audiobook! Get your copy here, or wherever you listen to audiobooks!\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1208019172\u0026amp;color=%2388909c\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"BOA Editions\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-572920496\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBOA Editions\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title='\"From Here to There\" by Naomi Shihab Nye' href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-572920496\/from-here-to-there-by-naomi-shihab-nye\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\"From Here to There\" by Naomi Shihab Nye\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoet, teacher, essayist, anthologist, songwriter and singer, Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the country's most acclaimed writers.\u003c\/strong\u003e Her voice is generous; her vision true; her subjects ordinary people, and ordinary situations which, when rendered through her language, become remarkable. In this, her fourth full collection of poetry, we see with new eyes-a grandmother's scarf, an alarm clock, a man carrying his son on his shoulders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpt from \"Next Time\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGinko trees live 1,000 years. \u003cbr\u003eEating the leaves will clear your brain. \u003cbr\u003eWhen I heard about them, I thought of my mother,\u003cbr\u003ehow much I would like to sit under one with her\u003cbr\u003ein the ancient shade, nibbling \u003cbr\u003ethe flesh, the stem, the central vein.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e©BOA Editions, Ltd 1994\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46627086696677,"sku":"1880238152","price":15.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46627086729445,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/RED_SUITCASE.jpg?v=1527683329"},{"product_id":"you-yours","title":"You and Yours","description":"\u003ch4\u003eThis title is available on audiobook! Get your copy here, or wherever you listen to audiobooks!\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1208020255\u0026amp;color=%23473e2c\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"BOA Editions\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-572920496\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBOA Editions\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title='\"Someone I Love\" by Naomi Shihab Nye' href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-572920496\/someone-i-love-by-naomi-shihab-nye\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\"Someone I Love\" by Naomi Shihab Nye\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eYou \u0026amp; Yours\u003c\/em\u003e, Naomi Shihab Nye continues her conversation with ordinary people whose lives become, through her empathetic use of poetic language, extraordinary.\u003c\/strong\u003e Nye writes of local life in her inner-city Texas neighborhood, about rural schools and urban communities she's visited in this county, as well as the daily rituals of Jews and Palestinians who live in the war-torn Middle East. Balancing direct, unstated language with a suggestive \"aslantness,\"  Nye probes the fragile connection between language and meaning. She never shies from the challenge of trying to name the mysterious logic of childhood, or speak truth to power in the face of the horrors of war. She understands our lives are marked by tragedy, inequity and misunderstanding, and that our best chance of surviving our losses and shortcomings is to maintain a heightened awareness of the sacred in all things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpt from \"The Day\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI missed the day\u003cbr\u003eon which it was said\u003cbr\u003eothers should not have\u003cbr\u003ecertain weapons, but we could.\u003cbr\u003eNot only could, but should, \u003cbr\u003e          and do.\u003cbr\u003eI missed that day.\u003cbr\u003eWas I sleeping?\u003cbr\u003eI might have been digging\u003cbr\u003ein the yard, \u003cbr\u003edoing something small and slow \u003cbr\u003eas usual. \u003cbr\u003eOr maybe I wasn't born yet.\u003cbr\u003eWhat about all the other people \u003cbr\u003ewho aren't born? \u003cbr\u003eWho will tell them?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublishing Date: September 2005\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Paperback ISBN: 1-929918-69-0 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCloth ISBN: 1-929918-68-2\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd 2005\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46627128934629,"sku":"1929918690","price":15.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46627128967397,"sku":"1929918691","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/YOU_AND_YOURS.jpg?v=1527683794"},{"product_id":"transfer","title":"Transfer","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThis title is available on audiobook! Get your copy here, or wherever you listen to audiobooks!\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1208018209\u0026amp;color=%23d7b0cc\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-572920496\" title=\"BOA Editions\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBOA Editions\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-572920496\/history-by-naomi-shihab-nye\" title='\"History\" by Naomi Shihab Nye' style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\"History\" by Naomi Shihab Nye\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In the current literary scene, one of the most heartening influences is the work of Naomi Shihab Nye. Her poems combine transcendent liveliness and sparkle along with warmth and human insight. She is a champion of the literature of encouragement and heart. Reading her work enhances life.” \u003cstrong\u003e— William Stafford\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDusk\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ewhere is the name no one answered to\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003egone off to live by itself\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ebeneath the pine trees separating the houses\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewithout a friend or a bed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewithout a father to tell it stories\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehow hard was the path it walked on\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eall those years belonging to none\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eof our struggles drifting under\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe calendar page elusive as\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eresidue   when someone said\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehow have you been   it was\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003estrangely that name that tried\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eto answer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNaomi Shihab Nye has spent 35 years traveling the world to lead writing workshops and inspire students of all ages. In her newest collection, \u003cem\u003eTransfer\u003c\/em\u003e, she draws on her Palestinian-American heritage, the cultural diversity of her home in Texas, and her extensive travel experiences to create a poetry collection that attests to our shared humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong her awards, Naomi Shihab Nye has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Witter Bynner Fellow. She has received a Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and four Pushcart Prizes. In January 2010, she was elected to the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":9832285125,"sku":"9781934414521","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40608655704235,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46627116024037,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/TRANSFER.jpg?v=1527683770"},{"product_id":"when-i-grow-up-i-want-to-be-a-list-of-further-possibilities","title":"When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThis title is available on audiobook! Get your copy here, or wherever you listen to audiobooks!\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1207935844\u0026amp;color=%23353b41\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-572920496\" title=\"BOA Editions\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBOA Editions\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-572920496\/self-portrait-as-so-much-potential-by-chen-chen\" title='\"Self-Portrait As So Much Potential\" by Chen Chen' style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\"Self-Portrait As So Much Potential\" by Chen Chen\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.boaeditions.org\/pages\/a-poulin-jr-poetry-prize\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eA. POULIN, JR. POETRY PRIZE\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the GLCA New Writers Award\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the National Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Barabara Gittings Literature Award Honor Book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes—all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all accountable, this collection fully embraces the loss, grief, and abundant joy that come with charting one’s own path in identity, life, and love.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eExcerpt\u003cstrong\u003e from \"When I Grow Up I Want To Be A List Of Further Possibilities\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTo be good\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eex\/current friend for R. To be one last\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003einspired way to get back at R. To be relationship\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eadvice for L. To be advice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003efor my mother. To be a more comfortable\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ehospital bed for my mother. To be\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eno more hospital beds. To be, in my spare time,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAmerica for my uncle, who wants to be China\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003efor me. To be a country of trafficless roads\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u0026amp; a sports car for my aunt, who likes to go\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003efast. To be a cyclone\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eof laughter when my parents say\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003etheir new coworker is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003elike that,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e they can tell\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ebecause he wears pink socks, see, you don’t, so you can’t,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ecan’t be one of them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e To be the one\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003emy parents raised me to be—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ea season from the planet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eof planet-sized storms.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTo be a backpack of PB\u0026amp;J \u0026amp; every \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ething I know, for my brothers, who are becoming\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003etheir own storms. To be, for me, nobody,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ehomebody, body in bed watching TV. To go 2D\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u0026amp; be a painting, an amateur’s hilltop \u0026amp; stars,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSimple decoration for the new apartment\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ewith you. To be close, J.,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eto everything that is close to you—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eblue blanket, red cup, green shoes\u003cbr\u003eWith pink laces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTo be the blue \u0026amp; the red.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe green, the hot pink.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eWhen I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eWhat does Millennial poetry look like? One answer might be this wild debut from Chen Chen. He seems to run at the mouth, free-associating wildly, switching between lingo and \u003cspan\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003ehigher\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e forms of diction. Nothing\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es out of bounds or off limits, no culture too \u003cspan\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003epop\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e to find its place in poetry . . . nor anything too silly to point the way toward serious aims. And yet this is a deeply serious and moving book about Chinese-American experience, young love, poetry, family, and the family one makes amongst friends.\u003cspan\u003e” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e— NPR Books\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I so deeply love this poet's imagination where old shoes might walk back up the steps of a house, where one speaker pledges 'allegiance to the already fallen snow' and another says 'Let's put our briefcases on our heads, in the sudden rain, \/\/ \u0026amp; continue meeting as if we've just been given our names.' In precise and gorgeous language, Chen Chen shows us that the world is strange and bright with ardor. He reminds us of the miracle of the sensual and sensory. This is a book I will return to whenever I forget what a poem can do, whenever I am in need of a song or hope. If a peony wrote poems in a human language, I think that these would be his poems. If the rain wrote poems...I mean: \u003cem\u003ethis\u003c\/em\u003e is an important work by an astonishing and vital voice.\" \u003cstrong\u003e— Aracelis Girmay\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eThe radioactive spider that bit Chen Chen [isn’t that how first books get made?] gave him powers both demonic and divine. The bite transmitted vision, worry, want, memory of China, America’s grief, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeople\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emagazine, as well as a radical queer critique of the normative. What a gift that bite was—linguistic, erotic, politic and impolitic, idiosyncratic and emphatic. What a blessing and burden to write out of the manifold possibilities of that contact.\u003cspan\u003e” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e— Bruce Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Chen Chen refuses to be boxed in or nailed down. He is a poet of Whitman’s multitudes and of Langston Hughes\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es blues, of Dickinson\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es \u003cspan\u003e‘\u003c\/span\u003eso cold no fire can warm me\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003e and of Michael Palmer’s comic interrogation. What unifies the brilliance of \u003cem\u003eWhen I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities\u003c\/em\u003e is a voice desperate to believe that within every one of life’s sadnesses there is also hope, meaning, and—if we are willing to laugh at ourselves—humor. This is a book I wish existed when I first began reading poetry. Chen is a poet I’ll be reading for the rest of my life.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e—Jericho Brown\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eChen Chen is already one of my favorite poets ever. Funny, absurd, bitter, surreal, always surprising, and deeply in love with this flawed world. I\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003em in love with this book.\u003cspan\u003e” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e— Sherman Alexie\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date: April 11, 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: 978-1-942683-33-9 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2017\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46623879921893,"sku":"9781942683339","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46623879954661,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Signed Paperback","offer_id":47597515210981,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/WhenIGrowUp_FinalFront.jpg?v=1527683783"},{"product_id":"the-tiny-journalist","title":"The Tiny Journalist","description":"\u003ch3\u003eThis title is available on audiobook! 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Poetry and prayer have never shared so close a breath.” \u003cb\u003e—Oliver de la Paz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In Geffrey Davis’s stunning collection \u003ci\u003eNight Angler\u003c\/i\u003e there is a grace fathered by risk, a wonder mothered by worry. These lines cast and cast through generations of fathers to find music and floods and hands that can deliver both tenderness and violence. This is the book I want to give to all the parents in my life so they can see their own struggles and songs and be reminded that the lessons we offer our children are often the ones we need most, that ‘there are those who touch a body and leave it graceful: be that kind of wonder.’” \u003cb\u003e—Traci Brimhall, author of \u003cem\u003eSaudade\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e”Geffrey Davis’s poems reveal the small slants of light, the unusual turns of fate, the near invisible machinations—of humans and nature—that ripple through everything with consequences, yet also always with a breathless and radiant redemption. Love, fatherhood, family, loss are all engaged with lyrically and with a deeply engaging and persuasive insight. 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These poems interrogate patriarchal narratives about childbirth, postpartum healing, and motherhood through the lens of pop culture and the political zeitgeist.\u003c\/strong\u003e With references ranging from Courtney Love to Lana Del Rey to Richard Burton to Nicolas Cage, \u003ci\u003eI Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World\u003c\/i\u003e revitalizes the way we look at mothering: pushing its boundaries and reclaiming one's spirit of defiance, abundance, and irreverent joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for Kendra DeColo\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I have always loved Kendra DeColo’s poems, so it’s no surprise that I love this new book, \u003ci\u003eI Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers From the World\u003c\/i\u003e. But I love it \u003ci\u003eso\u003c\/i\u003e much. DeColo somehow manages to write poems that are equal parts swagger and soft, equal parts holler and prayer. Poems that are irreverent and dead serious, playful and pained, built of precise and impeccable and raucous music. Poems wonderful and strange and luminous, as is everything when you look, when you \u003ci\u003efeel\u003c\/i\u003e, as hard, and beautifully, as DeColo does.” \u003cb\u003e—Ross Gay, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Delights: Essays\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The great magic of Kendra DeColo's poems has always felt, to me, like she knows something you also know, even if you don't know that you know it. Not just a movie, but a specific moment from a movie. A commercial you might not remember. Each of her poems reveals something about how one memory can become shared. Through joy, through terror, through rage. There is a generosity that flows through this book, not just in the intimate poems about giving life and then caring for a life, but also the poems that slowly, gently circle food courts, or open with off-brand granola bars. This book and these poems are a true testament to how intimacy and generosity can take as many forms as a writer needs you to see them in.” \u003cb\u003e—Hanif Abdurraqib, author of \u003ci\u003eA Fortune for Your Disaster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This collection of glorious, powerful, dare I say iconic poems blew through me like strong weather. I felt electric, inspired and understood. 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These poems speak to us from parking lots, planes, dreamscapes, and the digital arena to affirm that we are made of every intimate moment we have ever had. Letter poems to a younger poet interspersed throughout the collection question desire itself and consider how digital technologies—sexting, Uber, selfies, Instagram—are reframing self-image and shifting the ratios of risk and reward in erotic encounters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith dauntless vulnerability, Meitner taps into the metaphysical, the ekphrastic, the sensual, and the ordinary moments of life, remaining porous and open to the world, and always returning to the desires rooted deep within the self as a way forward in a damaged world. Boldly asserting that pleasure is a vital form of knowledge, \u003cem\u003eUseful Junk\u003c\/em\u003e reminds us that our selves are made real and beautiful by our embodied experiences, and that our desire is what keeps us alive.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eUseful Junk\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Erika Meitner’s \u003cem\u003eUseful Junk\u003c\/em\u003e is composed of poems that are tragicomic-erotic-nostalgic with a twist of existential dread and a cherry of wit on top. Meitner’s speaker is most comfortable, or most able to endure her discomfort, when she’s on the move, in airport terminals and on subway platforms, between the domestic present tense and the erotic subterfuge of memory, sex, and poetry, between selfhood and the selfie. These daring poems exist at the intersection of usefulness and junk, where I, you, and we are tenuously twined ‘together like an interrobang’ until we drop anchor or disappear.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Diane Seuss, author of \u003cem\u003efrank: sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“There are so many layers of revelation embodied in Erika Meitner’s \u003cem\u003eUseful Junk\u003c\/em\u003e, and so many selves allowed to speak and shine here. This book is more than I thought a book could be. Sharp and funny and horny and transcendent and generous and human as hell, it is the very book of poems all my selves have been waiting for. ‘Listen,’ the poet says here, ‘we are making art because we want to inhabit everything \/ and not fear it.’ Done and done, Erika Meitner. Done and done.” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Carrie Fountain, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eUseful Junk\u003c\/em\u003e is indisputably addictive, graced by the poet’s signature clutch on quirky, her dazzling and exhaustive range, and a dexterity with lyric that consistently upends the ordinary. An Erika Meitner poem is not only enviable art—it’s a loosening of what ties us to the ordinary. And the long-anticipated arrival of this new work is cause for unbridled celebration, a necessary reminder that great poetry always arrives just when we need it.\" \u003cstrong\u003e— Patricia Smith, author of \u003cem\u003eIncendiary Art\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ethe bureau of reclamation\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ewe the loyal companions \u003cbr\u003ewe who are hyped about everything \u003cbr\u003ewe who cross the thresholds of accountability \u003cbr\u003eour songs of praise sound like gunshots \u003cbr\u003ewe the supermarket shoppers \u003cbr\u003ewe the leggings-as-pants wearers \u003cbr\u003ewe the shade throwers \u003cbr\u003ethe riven in nostalgia itinerants \u003cbr\u003ewho avoid our mail at all costs \u003cbr\u003ewho remember all our exes unequivocally \u003cbr\u003ewe the hypervigilant \u003cbr\u003ewe who collect regular explanations of benefits \u003cbr\u003ewe who worry about food security \u003cbr\u003ewe the invasive species \u003cbr\u003ewe who dwell (mostly) in the body \u003cbr\u003ewe who buried our long-suffering ancestors \u003cbr\u003ewhat would you like to cup in your hands again? \u003cbr\u003ewater? a flame?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46623943819493,"sku":"9781950774531","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46623943852261,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/UsefulJunk_CVR_SM.jpg?v=1630082196"},{"product_id":"casual-conversation","title":"Casual Conversation","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAudiobook now available!\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1527019417\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\" title=\"BOA Editions\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBOA Editions\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\/cc-trade-sample\" title='\"hearsay\" by Renia White' style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\"hearsay\" by Renia White\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Blessing the Boats Selection \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ewith a Foreword by Aracelis Girmay.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRenia White’s debut poetry collection strikes up a conversation, considering what’s being said, what isn’t, and where it all comes from.\u003c\/strong\u003e From her vantage point of Black womanhood, White probes the norms and mores of everyday interactions. In observations, insights, and snippets of speech, these poems look to the unspoken thoughts behind our banter, questioning the authority of not only the rule of law but also of our small talk itself—the concepts we have accepted and integrated without pause.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCasual Conversation \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eimagines a new way of knowing, a way that encourages us to think through how we structure and stratify ourselves, inviting something strange and other to spill out. White challenges us to question whether there is anything casual about this life, even as she invites us to consider other logics and to think alongside each other. This book gives space to hold what we fear out of formality: consequence, embarrassment, anger. It plays, it tarries, it disrupts. It pulls apart what seems sound in an effort to see: what did we make here? 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It is something so vital and so unstoppably generative that I can only think to call it unrest.\" \u003cb\u003e—Aracelis Girmay, from the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"It’s a harrowing collection, with only brief moments of rest and renewal, but it’s a brave book, too, one that insists on the deep and lasting harm of racism.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—David Starkey, for \u003cem\u003eCalifornia Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Casual Conversation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, true to its title, contains poems of such killing nonchalance both in what they say and in the many unsayables finding space in-between memorable line after memorable line. The way Renia White finds and inhabits space is a stellar pushback against erasure and absence. A timely collection by a timeless poet.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Ishion Hutchinson, author of \u003cem\u003eHouse of Lords and Commons: Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Whether waxing philosophical or poetic or recalling the inner monologues of the human spirit living moment to moment in lifetimes, telling tales of tattling, playing the dozens, or testifying, recalling lynch ropes or racial memory, Renia White’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCasual Conversation \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eis not casual nor conversant in the denouement of passivity, but are rigorously passionate inner monologues—interrogations, perhaps—preoccupied with the human eye, ear, and heart. In her muted Miles-Bearden collaged renderings, White is as bold and brash and confident and causal as a musician, painter, filmmaker stopping us dead in our tracks (as Ntozake Shange reminds us poems should do like a kiss) at such self-assured soliloquies and spirited solos that are ‘just gorgeous.’ Her stilted syntax stutters lead you into the poem slant yet makes you ‘come through the front door.’ In these ‘blue rummage,’ dialectics you marvel at the mastery as White splits the personal wide open for the political (church burnings; confederate flag unlatching; mother-daughter remorse and reckoning) to merge and mingle with your ‘ear to the root’ of her blues: to what matters in her bright and shining ‘hope room’ of a debut.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tony Medina, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Am Alfonso Jones and Death, With Occasional Smiling\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003emy mother wants to live in a gated community\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI am only crying because she might want to infer that she’s worth defense.\u003cbr\u003ethe fact will be embedded, you see?          she is thinking about something\u003cbr\u003eakin to value            and the metric is another latch on another outside.\u003cbr\u003ethe metric is insisting upon an out                   that need stay there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe thing about an unmanned gate is, something can walk right in.     then what?\u003cbr\u003eit’s there—inside.            equivalent             crossed over the flimsy membrane of\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003edon’t come any further\u003c\/em\u003e            simply because you didn’t make it less possible. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46519612965093,"sku":"9781950774555","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46519612997861,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/CasualConversation_CVR_R2_SM.jpg?v=1633646266"},{"product_id":"a-season-in-hell-with-rimbaud","title":"A Season in Hell with Rimbaud","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-description rte\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAudiobook now available!\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1537941934\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\" title=\"BOA Editions\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBOA Editions\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\/a-season-in-hell-with-rimbaud-dustin-pearson\" title=\"A Season in Hell with Rimbaud _ Dustin Pearson\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eA Season in Hell with Rimbaud _ Dustin Pearson\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2024 Nancy Dasher Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn pursuit of his brother, a man traverses the fantastical and grotesque landscape of Hell, pondering their now fractured relationship. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe poems in Dustin Pearson’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA Season in Hell with Rimbaud\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e form an allegorical travelogue that chronicles two brothers’ mutual descent into hell. When the older brother runs off by himself, the younger brother begins roaming Hell’s different landscapes in search of him. As he searches, the younger brother ruminates on their now fractured relationship: what brought them here? Can they find each other? Will their bonds ever be repaired?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn the tradition of Virgil, Dante, Milton, Swift, Shelley, Joyce, Sarte, and especially Arthur Rimbaud, Pearson leads his speakers on a speculative, epistolary journey through the nether realm inspired by Christian beliefs and tradition. Drawing on the works of French Symbolists and the literary traditions of the American South, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA Season in Hell with Rimbaud \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eguides readers through an intimate rendering of one brother’s journey to find his lost and estranged brother, perhaps recovering a part of himself in the process.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eA Season in Hell with Rimbaud\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“‘You can lose your brother to Hell\/ and still be happy inside your house,’ begins one of Pearson's striking and unforgettable poems. Pearson is at once metaphysical and allegorical. While summoning Rimbaud's symbolism poetics, he creates a voice uniquely his own, with questions of brotherhood, performative masculinity, and the horrors and vulnerabilities of our mortal bodies. There are many rooms to open in each of Pearson's poems. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA Season In Hell With Rimbaud\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a rich and thorough collection. Each time the speaker's brother is addressed, a history of violence and traumas that the brother has been subjected to in Hell is simultaneously summoned. But is hell another dimension, an internal space, an external space, or is it right here on earth? Pearson keeps reminding us that, ‘The house has many rooms,’ and we find meaning inside and out of each real, imagined and metaphysical space. What a poetic accomplishment this is!” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Raymond Antrobus, author of \u003cem\u003eAll The Names Given\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Dustin Pearson’s oneiric \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA Season in Hell with Rimbaud\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a carnal traversal. The flesh putrefies and bubbles. From cuts in the feet the blood leaks and puddles and muddles. Skin-splitting is a critical function of discovery. The hellscape lives, roils, and revolts per its noxious nature, and as the speaker threads it in search of their brother (in pursuit of themself), Hell gets inside you, becomes the body and what can happen to it, and remains strange: Pearson is a foreigner here, a traveler who does not arrive. I give thanks for Pearson’s dream-walking poems with titles like hardcore band names, for how they mirror the interior wherein I am a fallible brother, a friend in the distance, a companion simultaneously corruptible and committed.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Justin Phillip Reed, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Malevolent Volume\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“If, as Rimbaud tells us, believing you’re in Hell means you’re there, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA Season in Hell with Rimbaud\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is Dustin Pearson’s Dantean descent. No Virgil, no Beatrice, but a brother—one who could ‘clap a boulder to dust,’ whose presence augured the world: ‘There wasn’t a time\/ I didn’t have\/ a brother. When\/ my eyes opened,\/ he was already here.’ It’s an epic story, braiding planes of mind and spirit, reaching across time and space to distant cosmologies, poetries, theologies. But it’s also decidedly granular—sheets pulled up over a headboard, geysers, a red balloon. Pearson has written an unforgettable story of two brothers and the myriad universes roiling between them: ‘If the only world is a Hell with my brother \/ in it, being with him will make a new one.’” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003eKaveh Akbar, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePilgrim Bell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe Breeze\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt seems there have always been people\u003cbr\u003eclaiming time passes differently in Hell,\u003cbr\u003eas if, from the beginning, there’s been\u003cbr\u003ea Hell to go to and a Hell\u003cbr\u003ewhose grasp you could break from.\u003cbr\u003eTime has always been different\u003cbr\u003eto my brother and me. Our trek\u003cbr\u003ewas supposed to be a dream,\u003cbr\u003ebenign, temporary, if hideous\u003cbr\u003eand unflinching. I dreamt of my brother\u003cbr\u003ebefore but never burning, never\u003cbr\u003escreaming through everlasting fire.\u003cbr\u003eNever in the dreams could he leave.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46623807766757,"sku":"9781950774593","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46623807799525,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/A_Season_In_Hell_CVR_SM.jpg?v=1633649709"},{"product_id":"your-emergency-contact-has-experienced-an-emergency","title":"Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAudiobook now available! \u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1600377459\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\" title=\"BOA Editions\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBOA Editions\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\/your-emergency-contact-sample\" title=\"Your Emergency Contact _ Sample\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eYour Emergency Contact _ Sample\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIn his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his investigation of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and what one invents, as a queer Asian American living through an era of Trump, mass shootings, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Always at work in the wrecked heart of this new collection is a switchboard operator, picking up and connecting calls. Raucous 2 a.m. prank calls. Whispered-in-a-classroom emergency calls. And sometimes, its pages record the dropping of a call, a failure or refusal to pick up. With irrepressible humor and play, these anarchic poems celebrate life, despite all that would crush aliveness. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHybrid in form and set in New England, West Texas, and a landlocked province of China, among other places, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eYour Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e refuses neat categorizations and pat answers. Instead, the book offers an insatiable curiosity about how it is we keep finding ways to hold onto one another.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eYour Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Inviting, funny, “trying to be marvelous,” Chen Chen’s second volume lives up to its provocative title.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Stephanie Burt, for Boston Globe's The Best Books of 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"I revel in Chen’s capaciousness, his lightning-fast modulations between silly and sober, his capacity to make poetry that is no less serious for being fun.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Craig Morgan Teicher, poet and critic, for NPR's 2022 Books We Love\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"\u003cspan\u003eThese questioning, funny, and deeply humane poems pack a fantastic punch.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, ★ Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Chen Chen is one of my favorite poets writing today. His intuitive sense of humor makes me laugh out loud while reading his poems which brim with pathos. Humor cross-sections a heart, coating it with laughter while also ripping it in half...Ultimately, Chen's poems are honest, without the performative film that layers so much today, and his poems leave me speechless and transformed.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Victoria Chang, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOBIT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“These poems can do so much, they can tell you, for example, ‘what bees wear at night \/ when they want to feel sexy,’ these poems can be hilarious, even when grieving. These poems remember they are written in the late empire, inside this grief that is America of the early 2020s, and somehow these poems also console with all the things that grackles bring. Anyone who has a boyfriend or a mother should read these poems. Anyone who’s ever been made uncomfortable in this country in public or in private should read them, too. Anyone who likes to laugh out loud and then realize that they have learned something far more than a joke: that they are wiser from reading the lines: read these poems. Chen Chen is as real as poets can be.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Ilya Kaminsky, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeaf Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“With humor, deep intelligence, and what feels to me like a luminous everyday philosophy, Chen Chen leads me “through the wound of it.” It being life. In America. In the 21st Century. In a body touched by violence and care, grief and desire, hope and heavy knowledge. \u003cem\u003eYour Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency\u003c\/em\u003e is dolorous, riotous, rapturous.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Tracy K. Smith, author of \u003cem\u003eSuch Color: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ewe’ll be gone after these brief messages\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003egod stopped by in his magenta rowboat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ei said god you have to stop stopping by\u003cbr\u003eif you’re never going to tell me the meaning of life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003egod said life is meaningless\u003cbr\u003ewhile language often means too much\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003emy grandmother stopped by \u0026amp; said no\u003cbr\u003ethe meaning of life is love\u003cbr\u003ethe kind that produces children\u003cbr\u003ewhy don’t you have a girlfriend yet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003emy mother stopped by \u0026amp; said look\u003cbr\u003ehe’s busy with his studies stop asking\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003egod got back in his turquoise steamship\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003elife is a joyful thing he said\u003cbr\u003eit’s probably very good for you\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46623530975461,"sku":"","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46623531008229,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Signed Paperback","offer_id":47597501939941,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/YourEmergencyContact_RGB_SM.jpg?v=1644946779"},{"product_id":"buffalo-girl","title":"Buffalo Girl","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAudiobook now available! \u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1583205999\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"BOA Editions\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBOA Editions\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Buffalo Girl _ Sample\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\/buffalo-girl-sample\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBuffalo Girl _ Sample\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn these hybrid poems, Jessica Q. Stark explores her mother’s fraught immigration to the United States from Vietnam at the end of war through the lens of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTold through personal, national, and cultural histories, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBuffalo Girl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a feminist indictment of the violence used to define and control women's bodies. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eInterspersed throughout this hybrid work are a series of collaged photographs, featuring Stark’s mother’s black-and-white photography from Vietnam beautifully and hauntingly layered over various natural landscapes — lush tropical plants, dense forests, pockets of wildflowers. Several illustrations from old Red Riding Hood children’s books can also be found embedded into these pieces. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eJuxtaposing the moral implications of Little Red Riding Hood with her mother's photography, Stark creates an image-text conversation that attends to the wolves lurking in the forests of our everyday lives. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eOpening the whispered frames around sexuality and sex work, immersed in the unflattering symptoms of survival, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBuffalo Girl\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e burgeons with matrilineal love and corporeal rage while censuring the white gaze and the violence enacted through the English language. Here is an inversion of diasporic victimhood. Here is an unwavering attention to the burdens suffered by the women of this world. Here is a reimagination, a reclamation, a way out of the woods.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eJessica Q. Stark\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“There was a consistent feeling of delight and surprise as I moved through the social and mythological world of blood, verbs, and ‘stories better left unsaid’ that Stark makes and un-makes. What a brilliant writer. What a lovely and strange book.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Bhanu Kapil\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Part poetry book, part collection of private, personal, and public histories, part summons, part rune, this book takes you head first into the other world, where all you can do is swim past your own hurts and traumas into the sunshine hole of the unreal. This book is about being human, and painfully so. It’s a book we must remember as we begin to forget ourselves. Maybe that’s this time we are in right now and maybe it is all of time. I’ll risk it all to say that we need this book for all of time, to take with us as a guide from here until the everlasting.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Dorothea Lasky\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“The body of poetry needs a new script and, sassy, inventive poetess and scholar, Jessica Q. Stark , is more than happy to savagely oblige and provide. Here is her beast, her junglehatch made of tiger’s saline, a genealogical bite or two. Her poetry is a box office disgorgement, where heroes and foes tried to not eat each other alive in between the pages.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Vi Khi Nao\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eCatalogue of Random Acts of Violence\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhere are you from?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhere is your mother from?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBut can you speak it?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCan she speak it?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eHow long has she been speaking it?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAre you better at reading or speaking it?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDo you have family there?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDo you think you look like her?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWhere are they?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAnd where are they now?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDo people tell you you look like her?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCan you understand her?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCan she understand me?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45961802711269,"sku":"","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (Signed)","offer_id":45961802744037,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46623749341413,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/BuffaloGirl_CVR_2.jpg?v=1666709893"},{"product_id":"four-in-hand","title":"Four in Hand","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAudiobook now Available! \u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1527029023\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"BOA Editions\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBOA Editions\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Sample of Four In Hand by Alicia Mountain\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\/four-in-hand-by-alicia-mountain\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSample of Four In Hand by Alicia Mountain\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eComprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain’s \u003ci\u003eFour in Hand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e is both formal and experimental, ranging from lyric romantic and familial narratives to blank verses of reconfigured found text pulled from financial newsletter emails.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLanguage and white space equally captivate with their sparsity and abundance as Mountain pursues the implications of national political identity with intersectional awareness. These poems interrogate our collective complicity in late-stage capitalism, drone warfare, the election of Donald Trump, environmental degradation, mental health crises, and the dawn of Covid-19 through the lens of gay poetic lineage, regionalism, and familial kinships structures.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAs in all lived experiences, treacheries and triumphs fade in and out of focus and intimacy, heartbreak, travel, eroticism, joy, and quotidian happenings offer character and momentum across non-linear narrative arcs. Through enthralling images, gripping storytelling, and world-building, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFour in Hand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e carves out necessary space for lesbian gaze, speakership, and personhood. From the back corner of a vast, sprawling, yet gorgeous landscape of thought, Mountain's poems beckon us inside.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eFour in Hand\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The four-sonnet structure of this collection is romantic enough to read aloud in the afterglow of new love, but its subject matter (which touches on everything from Trump’s election to mental illness to the COVID-19 pandemic) provides a welcome snap of reality.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Emma Specter,\u003cem\u003e Vogue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“In Alicia Mountain’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFour in Hand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, the speaker tells us that the book is ‘a monument to touch,’ but more pointedly, it plays with an erotics of geography where thunder ‘spanks the hills,’ where one is encouraged to ‘drink the tidal push,’ where ‘tectonic shifts are underway.’ What is Mountain telling the reader about a storm that cannot be felt until the moment we feel ‘wrung out’ by its torrent? About a howl that cannot relieve what a beloved has buried within them? In these four sonnet crowns, each masterfully executed with their own distinct rhetorical and linguistic logics, Mountain enacts an alternative to catharsis; posits a kind of anti-catharsis. There is no rising action and then relief, instead Mountain interpolates what happens when the world does not change, but repeats, and insists on its tired holding patterns. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFour in Hand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e doesn't simply tackle the failings of global health industries, the precarity of queer spaces, or how the language of risk and resilience end up recoding bodies through capital, it \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ecommands\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e something else of ‘our sharp parts.’ It points us to an elsewhere of possibilities.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Megan Fernandes, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGood Boys\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFour in Hand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eapplies the gentle pressure of imagination to the possible world. Intimacy and expansiveness, grounded in episodic grace and sensual generosity, fuel Alicia Mountain’s work. Her words present us with beauty and allow us to revel in it, despite feeling ‘held tight like too much hope.’ We are shown emotional and environmental devastation, and given the music to reckon with the painful awareness that transforms best into action, repeated. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFour in Hand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a blood rush, a mode of love in language crafted with care and immersion and insistence, harnessing the power of ‘a swarm\/keeping quiet when I want to howl.’” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Khadijah Queen, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnodyne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Heroic, indeed. These poems are dauntless. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFour in Hand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, Alicia Mountain’s sonnet series refuses the pull of thematic or stylistic singularity \u0026amp; favors instead the unrelenting materiality of interpersonal collage \u0026amp; sociopolitical pastiche. Mountain has not only satisfied the demands of all great crowns, but bettered them: with the language of politics, illness, class warfare, \u0026amp; the intimacy of the lesbian gaze, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFour in Hand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e sweetens the cycle of our times—pandemic within pandemic—\u0026amp; pulls us back inside the volta where we remember our own humanity \u0026amp; haven’t yet forgotten one another’s. What a phenomenal \u0026amp; necessary feat.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Meg Day, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLast Psalm at Sea Level\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"'This book is a monument to touch,\/ even with its hands in its pockets,' she promises. And, indeed, these sprawling, inviting pages deliver by revealing Mountain’s intimate and dynamic voice.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eTrain Town Howl\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis book is a monument to touch, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eeven with its hands in its pockets.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEven with your hair in your eyes as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003edisguise, there is no making public \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ehow we push and pull in dark corners.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe beehive whispers when it sees our \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ehands touch, the train town howls and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ehowls. The rough face smiles beside yours. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLick my teeth in the daylight. Still no \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003echaser. Still no closer to extinguishing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ethe bolt of my lightning you hold captive. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eI have held the bright storm of you \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ehot in my hands. I would do it again,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ehowever quick, however long it lasts. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46623853117669,"sku":"978-1-950774-86-9","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46623853150437,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/FourInHand_CVR_SM.jpg?v=1667501663"},{"product_id":"one-wild-word-away","title":"One Wild Word Away","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAudiobook now available!\u003cspan\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1752998142\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"BOA Editions\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBOA Editions\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title='Sample of \"One Wild Word Away\" by Geffrey Davis' href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\/sample-of-one-wild-word-away-by-geffrey-davis\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSample of \"One Wild Word Away\" by Geffrey Davis\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen tensions veer between hope and despair, the ensuing fracture can swing like a scythe \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand cut a ragged seam between past and present.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e In\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e One Wild Word Away,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e Geffrey Davis \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eweaves a deft set of poems about illness, family, loss, and rebirth. The luxurious sonics and crisp \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003edescriptions in each line are haunted by grief and buoyed by love as the speaker confronts \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003egenerational trauma and the loss of a loved one while in the process of raising his own son.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ePraise for One Wild Word Away\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eOne Wild Word Away\u003c\/em\u003e, Geffrey Davis imagines a song that contains all the contradictions within us, a song to guard against illness, loss, and death, all the old stories of our past. He imagines a new story, too, one that ‘brightens something else between us.’ This book is that song. We can hear it, this love, and ‘It hums like mercy.’” \u003cstrong\u003e—Blas Falconer, author of \u003cem\u003eForgive the Body This Failure\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“‘Only LOVE’ is at the heart of this honest, searching new collection by Geffrey Davis in which tender and intricate language transforms raw material: a stuttering marriage, the ghost of a father's addiction, the hauntings of a hard past in a newly-hard, newly-hopeful present...I will turn to this book when I need someone to help me find my way back to that most complicated and simple act: love.” \u003cstrong\u003e—Elizabeth Bradfield, author of \u003cem\u003eToward Antarctica\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46624014074085,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":46624014106853,"sku":"","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/files\/OneWildWordAway_7x9_CVR_SM_1.jpg?v=1701110110"},{"product_id":"exile-in-guyville","title":"Exile in Guyville","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003eAudiobook now available!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1880554329\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"BOA Editions\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBOA Editions\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"04 Exile Exile In Guyville\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/justine-alfano\/04-exile-exile-in-guyville\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e04 Exile Exile In Guyville\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eIn the stories of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eExile in Guyville\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e, probable futures and alternate realities take aim at unruly women, and show how they refuse to be ruled.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e With a speculative and surreal style, Lillard’s prize-winning collection explores a living museum of women from across time; a life app that forces women to comply with beauty standards; a future internment camp with a literal race for survival; and a band of middle-aged Riot Grrrls, taking vengeance with a new power. With humor, rage, and a razor-sharp eye for detail, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExile in Guyville\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e renders the invisible as seen, and the powerless as empowered.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eExile in Guyville\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Each of these six enthralling speculative shorts from Lillard (\u003cem\u003eDig Me Out\u003c\/em\u003e) explores female agency to powerful effect. Several offer dark views of the future. Women are imprisoned and subjugated in both 'Blackbird,' set in a gendered internment camp, and in the title story, about living women who are displayed in a museum and the new curator determined to effect change from within. The heroine of 'Typical Girls' is implanted with an oppressive AI companion marketed as a tool to improve women’s lives. 'Corporeal' explores the idea of alternate realities and alternate selves, while the quiet 'Wintersong' delves into the dissolution of a relationship. The final story, 'Things You Say,' sends the collection out on a slightly more hopeful note, showing women reclaiming their agency, inspired by their Riot Grrrl idols. Brief but mighty, this packs a hefty punch.\" \u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003estarred review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Amy Lee Lillard's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eExile in Guyville\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e takes you on a deeply poetic journey of women in exile. Women out of time, women out of place, women out of their minds, and women out of luck leap from this haunting, beautiful, slender short story collection that stays with you long after you close the book. This is a terrific collection of sneakily powerful writing and an unfettered, wild imagination.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Chelsea G. Summers, author of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e A Certain Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Lillard’s collection is explosive and inventive, balancing humor and horror as each story explores the ways in which women’s identities are built, broken, and rebuilt. I would happily be exiled with these complicated, stubborn, fierce, indomitable women!” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Gwen E. 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