New York: Nightboat Books, 2020. Second printing. Paperback. 454pp. Octavo [23 cm]. Pink and black wraps with white text. A collection of formally inventive writing by trans poets against capital and empire. More
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2019. First edition. Paperback. 111pp. Octavo [22.8 cm]. Illustrated taupe wraps. Hard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Aria Aber explores the historical and personal implications of Afghan American relations. Drawing on..... More
New York: Boni & Liveright, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 75pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] 1/4 black cloth with decoratively patterned paper over boards. The spine is lightly bumped. There is a previous owner's name along the top edge of the front free endpaper, and there is a bookseller's ticket on the..... More
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2010. Later printing. Paperback. 87pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. Illustrated wraps with french flaps. The speaker in this extraordinary collection finds herself multiply dislocated: from her childhood in California, from her family’s roots in Mexico, from a dying parent, from her prior self. The world is always in motion..... More
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2021. First paperback edition. Paperback. 95pp. Octavo [21.5cm]. Illustrated wraps with french flaps. National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Vulnerable, tender, acute, these are serious poems, brave poems, exploring with honesty the ambiguous moment between the rapture of youth and the grace of acceptance. A daughter tends to aging..... More
New York: Viking, 2021. First edition. Hardcover. 29pp. Duodecimo [18.5cm]. Illustrated paper over boards. On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Taking the stage after the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, Gorman captivated..... More