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Presents key voices and essential texts relevant to understanding today’s abolitionist movement. Supporters of the contemporary abolitionist movement, which has exploded since the George Floyd protests of 2020, will be eager to read this book. Includes an unpublished communique by Angela Davis written in her 20s while she was in jail. Co-editor Mumia Abu-Jamal is the most famous political prisoner alive today.The editorial arc of the book is historical, beginning with the anti-slavery era and continuing through to the present day. Book is accessible, inspirational, and rhetorically powerful. Co-editor Jennifer Black will schedule a speaking tour for PA, NY, NJ, DC, MD, MA, and beyond. Institutional partnership with the Prison Radio Project, a resource-strong not-for-profit organization dedicated to giving voice to incarcerated people.

Incendiary, lyrical poems of liberation from the oppression of Black womanhood. "To encounter the words of mimi tempestt on the page, or in performance, is to witness the rare transcendency of language where the line becomes an exacting blade. i dare you not to sleep on any prodigious Black woman’s soliloquy. i dare you to hold these words & find yourself implicated in the violent acts that serve as the backdrop to the blood spilled onto these pages. Read this book. You have no choice. Approach with caution. Defend yourself with claims of nuance and complexities. Do what you must, but know that once unsheathed these words, as Hanzo steel, have a way of cutting through the whiteness to get to the realities of Black and Brown truths."—Truong Tran, author of Book of the Other: Small in ComparisonWedding fierce, even jagged lines to an uncompromisingly lyrical flow honed over years of performance, mimi tempestt writes poems that are by turns cerebral, profane, revolutionary, comedic, erotic, and sentimental, with a visual sense that explodes across the page. the delicacy of embracing spirals is her second book, an investigation of the ways in which the personal narrative of Black womanhood can be expressed through a radically human lens, to expand on the possibilities of selfhood, liberation, and autonomy. Beginning with microcosmic poems of personal struggle and spiraling out into macrocosmic texts of social and political critique, the book culminates in an account of the impossible staging of a play where the lives of the characters and the audience are at stake. The three central questions this collection raises are “What haunts you? What hunts you? Who and what are you hunting?” the delicacy of embracing spirals blends theatre, melodrama, art, and lyricism through fragmented language, mosaic pieces, narrative, histories, and characterizations. It prioritizes the use of an ongoing dialectic to express a consciousness about being Black, being woman, being queer, being radical, being complex, being imperfect, being beautiful, being alive, being oppressed, and most essentially, being complicatedly human. The poems utilize memory and narrative to radically engage with the “performance” of oppression that gets in the way of Black womanhood and prevents Black humanity from being fulfilled. Most importantly, this collection unapologetically holds the white gaze hostage.

This is Clark Coolidge's most famous book, the one everyone references, long out of print after a 2nd successful publication with Sun & Moon Press in 1995. (The book was originally published by The Figures Press in 1986)This new edition features new material: a preface by poet and scholar Peter Gizzi, and an interview in the afterword where Coolidge addresses the genesis of the poem.Clark Coolidge is associated with the New York School and writers Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer, and Larry Fagin.He is also linked with the Language Poets including Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, and Michael Palmer.In Gizzi's preface, he mentions the many authors who consider Coolidge to be their favorite poet. This includes: James Schuyler, Robert Creeley, Alice Notley, John Ashbery, Charles Bernstein, Susan Howe, Bill Corbett, Geoffrey Young, Barbara Guest, Peter Straub, Michael Palmer, Rosmarie Waldrop, Michael Ondaatje, Robin Blaser, David Shapiro, John Yau, Lyn Hejinian, Tom Raworth, Paul Auster, Bernadette Mayer, & Fanny HoweThe Crystal Text is comparable to Keats's "Ode to a Grecian Urn," a meditation on an object.Bay-area events are planned.

The Gunman is now a major motion picture starring Sean Penn. This is the official movie tie-in edition.

An epic, historical novel about a bold, transgressive woman whose life became the subject of Cuba's most sensational legal trial.

A poetic debut novel, formally experimental, by turns hallucinatory, darkly funny and brutally real. Nochita is tender, fierce, and unforgettable.

A tender, unforgettable story about being young and broke in America, and the conjoined hearts of love and addiction.

Former CIA analyst reveals why pumping more money into US military spending destabilizes both the economy and long-term national security

From Will Alexander, finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, a new collection of poems from the intersection between surrealism and afro-futurism, where Césaire meets Sun Ra. Divine Blue Light further affirms Alexander’s status as one of the most unique and innovative voices in contemporary poetry.One of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Notable Poetry Books for Fall 2022!“Since the 1980s, the Los Angeles-based Alexander has mixed politics with mesmeric, oracular lines.”—The New York TimesAgainst the ruins of a contemporary globalist discourse, which he denounces as a “lingual theocracy of super-imposed rationality,” Will Alexander’s poems constitute an alternative cartography that draws upon omnivorous reading—in subjects from biology to astronomy to history to philosophy—amalgamating their diverse vocabularies into an impossible instrument only he can play. Divine Blue Light is anchored by three major works: the opening “Condoned to Disappearance,” a meditation on the heteronymic exploits of Portuguese modernist Fernando Pessoa; the closing “Imprecation as Mirage,” a poem channeling an Indonesian man; and the title poem, an anthemic ode to the jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. Other key pieces include “Accessing Gertrude Bell,” a critique of one of the designers of the modern state of Iraq; “Deficits: Chaïm Soutine & Joan Miró,” in homage to two Jewish artists forced to flee the Nazi invasion of France; and “According to Stellar Scale,” a compact lyric that traveled to space with astronaut Sian Proctor. The newest installment in our Pocket Poets Series, Divine Blue Light confirms Alexander’s status among the foremost surrealists writing in English today.Praise for Divine Blue Light:"Adopting a surrealist approach to making sense of the universe, Alexander plumbs language for its limits, often with dazzling results....Pondering the mysteries of existence and artistic influence, this engrossing work turns the quest for self-knowledge into a choral act."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"Alexander’s range—which moves past the propriety of each subject to the expansiveness of every—can be approximated as Aimé Césaire’s totality of the lion, or form and emptiness, or appositional, apparitional Black being. And this being is most real and realized through the collection’s quantum mechanics and dynamics, which Alexander invokes astrophysically, evokes metaphysically."—Jenna Peng, The Poetry Foundation"These surrealist and Afrofuturist poems examine politics, globalism, and the powers and limitations of language, while paying tribute to artists forced to flee the Nazi invasion of France.”—Maya Popa, Publishers Weekly"The 'invisible current' Will Alexander channels in the meteoric poems of Divine Blue Light is not surreal escape but vibrational engagement—an engagement with the infinite streams of the heart of being."—Jeffrey Yang, author of Line and Light"Like agua tilting itself into a god, Will’s texts suffuse the horizon of Poetry with the abstract purity of their oceanic movements, sun-condensing, dissolving seemingly endless sight into a disappearing instant of the Miraculous. Divine Blue Light exists by what it exudes."—Carlos Lara, author of Like Bismuth When I Enter

This novel offers a lyrical discussion of the rights, roles, and obligations of citizens in society as artificial intelligence plays a growing role in our lives. It’s a philosophical reflection on how Google & Co. meddle with our individual lives and our relationships with each other, and the increasingly ubiquitous control they exert on the general circulation of information, ideas, and capital.         It joins the ranks of other works of fiction that dive into these topics, such as Tim Maughan's Infinite Detail, Dave Eggers's The Every, Sherry Turkle's The Empathy Diaries, and Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story.      The author combines an unflinching look at the contemporary realities of class in the capitalist, consumer societies with a deep affection and caring for the humans who live in them.       This novel concentrates specifically on the pervaviseness of Google—in many respects the air that many of us in the United States and Europe breathe—in terms of ethics, morals, philosophy, and human values.      Gopegui dives into these topics with beautiful and thought-provoking prose. The story will resonate with people concerned about how the internet, and social media, impact our daily lives      For readers of Machines Like Me, by Ian Mc Ewan and Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro, which are both similar in the way they care about our future and different because this novel does not focus on the nature of machines but rather, how we humans are machines—complex and fascinating but machines in the end, and how it is for precisely that reason that why we should be more careful, tender, and brave.

Joyce Chopra is currently being recognized as a pioneer in the history of film, one of the rare women directors, a precursor, role model and inspiration to young women directing films today.         With the success of Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Lost Daughter," Chloe Zhao's "Nomadland," Ava Duvernay’s "13th," and Jane Campion's "Power of the Dog," female filmmakers are garnering more attention than ever.          Chopra discusses the kind of gender discrimination that she faced in the industry, long before #MeToo and the resulting public awareness of the gender disparities and abuse in Hollywood.         Joyce Chopra’s work is celebrated in two new/forthcoming books about women in film, including: Alicia Malone's "Girls on Film (Mango Press, March 2022);" and Amanda Reyes's forthcoming "Dangerous Passion" (Headpress 2023).       Chopra's Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning film Smooth Talk is being rediscovered following its recent inclusion in the "Revivals Line-Up" at the New York Film Festival.  The New Yorker, among other high profile media, wrote about the re-release.        Hollywood support & advocacy: Smooth Talk launched actress Laura Dern's career, and she will actively promote this book.          Chopra has won numerous awards for her filmmaking, while her groundbreaking documentary, Joyce at 34, is held in the NY MoMA's permanent collection.           Upon publication the Criterion Collection channel will feature Lady Director along with a special series on Chopra's films.         Lady Director offers rare, tell-all experiences that will be appreciated by audiences who like memoir, movie and TV insider accounts, coming-of-age stories, and a woman’s struggle to achieve her dreams.

San Francisco's new poet laureate--a Native American and native San Franciscan--explores urban space and the natural world.ral world.

•President Biden is committed to featuring Harriet Tubman's visage on the $20 bill, and Congresspeople on both sides of the aisle are putting pressure on him to follow through.•Lusane is a seasoned public speaker sought out by A-list media outlets such as NPR, PBS, CNN, and MSNBC.•Lusane will write op-eds for major national papers & websites. His latest on the life of Colin Powell was just published in the Washington Post.•2022 is the 200th birthyear of Harriet Tubman, and we'll insert the author into the media coverage.•This book is unique in discussing the overlap of Harriet Tubman and Andrew Jackson's lives, and the ways in which each of them defined the character of 19th century America.•Special illustrated section includes prototypes of the "Tubman Twenty," and historical images from the Library of Congress.•This book will appeal to the millions of supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, and more generally to trade and academic readers who follow emerging trends in social and racial justice education and organizing.•Will pursue events at independent bookstore and libraries, The National Museum of African American History and Culture (DC), The Harriet Tubman Museum & Education Center (MD), and elsewhere. Requests are welcomed!

Juan Felipe Herrera, son of Mexican immigrants, is the new Poet Laureate of the U.S., the nation’s first Latino laureate.

Vivid stories from one of Turkey's most admired contemporary female authors, whose political ties have landed her in Turkish prison.

Neruda's long-overlooked third book of poetry, critical in his poetic evolution, now translated into English for the very first time!

Full of wit and wonder, these prose poems, meditations, and narratives open onto rare and unexpected vistas of history and myth, language, and the art of writing.". . .one of the most distinguished and enigmatic of modern Greek poets, full of Platonic wisdom. His originality of temperament is a most singluar thing. . . .[his] new book is splendid." -Lawrence Durrell"The purpose of the book is twofold: first, to revise certain aspects of nationalist modernism, and secondly, to radicalize Greek modernism by undermining continuity and tradition. . . . Valaoritis's revision primarily concerns the continuity and validity of tradition as expressed in the "myth of Greekness."" -Panayiotis Bosnakis, Journal of Modern Greek StudiesNanos Valaoritis was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1921, of Greek parents. He has lived in Athens, Paris, and the United States. One of Greece's most distinguished contemporary writers, he is the author of novels, plays, and poetry, and was twice awarded the Greek national poetry prize.

The first and only insider's account of Vodou’s private, mystical, interior practice, a compelling story of initiation and transformation.

Bayard Rustin's life story told in his own words through his intimate correspondence, published on the centennial of his birth.

A scalding indictment of how the wealthy influence the national economy, politics, and media to disadvantage those less fortunate.

In the age of Occupy, An Army of Lovers reasks the question, what is the relationship between poetry and politics?

Turkey's great experimental modernist pens a philosophical novel in three parts about desire, faith, and the psychology of prohibited love.