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A rhapsodic exploration of immigration, race, and class by Vietnamese American phenom and National Poetry Slam star Bao Phi.

"An epistolary essay about race, inheritance, and mothering at the end of the world"--

From a legendary cult figure in Latin American literature, the story of a writer who obsessively observes his own handwriting in search of answers about his identity.

A blue girl lives in the woods, eating secrets baked into moon pies, and shaking up a small lakeside town.

Since Coffee House originally published Indiana, Indiana in 2003, Laird has published a number of critically and commercially successful books, including Zorrie, which was a finalist for 2021’s National Book Award for Fiction. Indiana, Indiana takes place in the same world as Zorrie, with overlapping characters and interlocking plot elements. The paperback edition of Zorrie will be published by Bloomsbury in May 2022.

Composed of fragments from hundreds of novels written across the span of hundreds of years, but reads very smoothly, truly like a novel. The changes in voice and style as the different original texts weave in and out of each other is fascinating and engaging.Tom's work is rigorous and conceptual but also playful and humorous. The afterword to the book outlines the literary constraints they took on to write the book and explains their process and philosophy. There is also a complete list of all the books used as source material.For readers of conceptual literature like Lucy Ellman's Ducks, Newburyport, Mark Danielewski's House of Leaves, and George Sanders' Lincoln in the Bardo.From Tom: The Nature Book is "a tale of how authors have rendered, distorted, praised, belittled, projected onto and spoken through countless animals, landforms and weather patterns. In these ways there is no nature in this book; it's all illusion and distortion. Entirely human. The Nature Book is also a story of times past. The natural world described by Austen and Dickens is di¿erent than that of Plath and Pynchon . . . and yet even further away from the time of this writing, when the e¿ects of climate change are already showing their teeth and are slowly beginning to appear in our fiction."

Part poetry collection, part soundscape, Village uses dark humor and keen observation to explore the roots of memory, grief, and estrangement.In propulsive and formally inventive verse, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs examines how trauma reshapes lineage, language, and choice, disrupting attempts at reconciliation across generations. Questioning who is deemed worthy of public memorialization, Diggs raises new monuments, tears down classist tropes, offers detailed instructions for her own international funeral celebrations, and makes visible the hidden labors of care and place. From corners in Harlem through North Carolina back roads, Diggs complicates the concept of "e;survivor,"e; getting to the truth of living in the dystopia of poverty.

Eleni Sikelianos, ';a master of mixing genres' (Time Out New York), further bends time and space in Your Kingdom, an ode to our more-than-human animal origins. As she studies the wild roots of our past, present, and future, Sikelianos, one of our foremost practitioners of ecopoetic exploration, finds solace in the complexity of our natural lineage as we face the environmental precarity of the present.Our shoulders and hips were invented by salamanders. Hidden motives bind us to cuckoos and caterpillars. Our faces form biological maps while our organs trace the shapes of our animal ancestors. From the cellular to the celestial, Your Kingdom inquisitively and energetically investigates our notion of biological kingdoms, calling us to ';let the body feel all its own evolution inside.'

When the weather revolts, certainties dissolve and binaries blur as members of two reading groups converge at the intersection of theory and practice to reshape their lives, relationships, and reality itself.In the latest novel from Anna Moschovakis, two reading groups, unofficially called Love and Anti-Love, falter amidst political friction and signs of environmental collapse. Participation offers a prescient look at communication in a time of rupture: anonymous participants exchange fantasies and ruminations, and relationships develop and unravel. As the groups consider-or neglect-their syllabi, and connections between members deepen, a mentor disappears, a translator questions his role, a colleague known as "e;the capitalist"e; becomes a point of fixation, and "e;the news reports"e; filter through in fragments. With incisive prose and surprising structural shifts, Participation forms an alluring vision of community, and a love story like no other.

In this new poetry collection, Pulitzer Prize finalist Ron Padgett illuminates the wonders inside things that don't even exist-and then they do.In Dot, Ron Padgett returns with more of the playfully profound work that has endeared him to generations of readers. Guided by curiosity and built on wit, generosity of spirit, and lucid observation, Dot shows how any experience, no matter how mundane, can lead to a poem that flares like gentle fireworks in the night sky of the reader's mind.

The Wet Hex is Sun Yung’s fourth book of poetry with CHP. She is beloved and respected for her own award-winning writing as well as for her work as the editor of several anthologies, including A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota (Minnesota Historical Society Press).Sun Yung co-leads Poetry Asylum with Su Hwang; there will be lots of opportunities for events and partnerships in the Twin Cities.Physical galleys will be available!

The most interesting writers we know, all asking and answering the same question: why can't we stop watching cat videos?

Keepsake, guidebook, and wunderkammer of enthusiasms, Sturdevant's essays offer new ways of thinking about urban spaces and the contemporary Midwest.

Being queer and Asian American; families we are born into and ones we chose; nostalgia, trauma and history—all dissected fearlessly.