Bøger udgivet af Wave Books

Eighteen new (Soma)tic exercises that strive for human connection and political action.

A stunning new collection of poems from Mary Ruefle inviting the many readers of her prose to discover the central form of her literary imagination.

A new collection of exciting and vivacious prose poems, essays, and more in-between from lauded poet Mary Ruefle.

Twenty-three new (Soma)tic exercises and rituals for creating an "extreme present" and their resulting poems.

Joshua Beckman's poems of emotional curiosity invite the reader to a quiet, familiar space.

Poems that speak the literal language of dreams.

Written with keen perception and insatiable curiosity, Chris Nealon's fifth book of poetry, All About You, is both a study of personhood and a diary of release from it. “You almost let your ego go,” he writes, “but oh—/maybe tomorrow.” Revolving through moments of sociability and passages of inwardness, the poet’s address shifts in these poems from “I” to “you” and back again, inviting his audience to shift along with him. Out of that agility, All About You builds a generous model of what it means to pay attention, and drafts a delicately post-pandemic “we”:  “imagine what a healed people could do / Just flesh – full of chatter – / Hush now / Come on, let’s run – ”

A contemporary and authentically designed translation of one of Stéphane Mallarmé's most famous poems.

Elegiac and haunting, Mirror Nation by Don Mee Choi completes the KOR-US trilogy, along with Hardly War (Wave Books, 2016) and the National Book Award–winning DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020).Much like Proust's madeleine, a spinning Mercedez Benz ring outside Choi's Berlin window prompts a memory of her father on the Glienicker Bridge between Berlin and Potsdam, which in turn becomes catalyst for delving into the violent colonial and neocolonial contemporary history of South Korea, with particular attention to the horrors of the Gwangju Uprising of May 1980. Here, photographs, news footage, and cultural artifacts comingle with a poetry of grief that is both personal and collective. Inspired by W. G. Sebald and Walter Benjamin as well as Choi’s DAAD Artists residency in Berlin, Mirror Nation is a sorrowful reflection on the ways in which a place can hold a “magnetic field of memory,” proving that history doesn’t merely repeat itself; history is ever present, chiming the hours in a chorus against empire.

"A collection of nine phantasmagorical stories by ... poet and City Lights editor Garrett Caples"--

"Four Lectures by Lisa Jarnot is the seventh book in the Bagley Wright Lecture Series, comprising autobiographical essays that form an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry"--

"A collection of poetry by Noelle Kocot"--

As labyrinthine as its namesake, Dorothea Lasky‿s The Shining is an ekphrastic horror lyric that shapes an entirely unique feminist psychological landscape. Here, Lasky guides us through the familiar rooms of the Overlook Hotel, both realized and imagined, inhabiting characters and spaces that have been somewhat flattened in Stephen King‿s text or Stanley Kubrick‿s film adaptations. Ultimately, Lasky‿s poems point us to the ways in which language is always haunted‿by past selves, poetic ancestors, and paradoxical histories.Â

"A book of prose by Gail Scott chronicling her years in Lower Manhattan during the Obama era in a community of poets at the junction between formally radical and political art"--

Optic Subwoof is a collection of talks that poet and National Book Award finalist Douglas Kearney presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2020 and 2021.As kinetic on the page as they are in person, these lectures offer an urgent critique of the intersections between violence and entertainment, interrogating the ways in which poetry, humor, visual art, music, pop culture, and performance alternately uphold and subvert this violence. With genius precision and an avant-garde sensibility, Kearney examines the nuances around Black visibility and its aestheticization. In myriad ways, Optic Subwoof is a book that establishes Kearney as one of the most dynamic writers and thinkers of the twenty-first century.

In the poem-essays that comprise A Duration, writing is a physical act where writing and lived experience support one another in bodiesâEUR"animal, plant, mineral, and word bodiesâEUR"that are injured and heal, that die and continue in new forms, playing new roles. Here, in his fifth book, Richard Meier transmutes years of daily practices of attentionâEUR"be it to a line spoken by LearâEUR(TM)s Fool, a train to Kingston, or  âEURœred inside green stem below eight white petals in a spiral with space between them attached to the yellow centerâEUR?âEUR"into mesmerizing trajectories through an always unfolding present. In the collapse of the border between writing and the body, A Duration, âEURœplay[s] both hearts with a heartbeat and kinship of place, time, mundanity in the continuous onrushing imagined joy.âEUR?