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These new narratives reshape the past, charge the future. Here is poetry not rooted in the mythologies of nation-states, here is poetry that casts new light.

In invocations as rhythmic as Joy Harjo’s, every Earthling that makes Hart’s world is marked and held with specific, particular care.

Alissa Hattman’s Sift is an extraordinarily palpable rendition of how love and grief might be reshaped by our still-unfolding climate crisis.

Fugitive Assemblage is mysterious, restless, searching, flat out beautiful, and finally, heartbreaking.

You got to be grown, and willing to honor Blackness/queerly to receive all that this book is. This writer gots swagga. Makes me want to cuss and twirl . . . and hold this book tight.

There has never been a more compelling case to radically re-imagine our relationships to more-than-human animals and our environment.

A rare voice of embodied multiplicity, Megan Sandberg-Zakian transfigures happy endings to honest endings, even beginnings, that bring us into contact with the creative chaos of “live” life.

Lyrical, breathless, incisive, Diane Exavier’s The Math of Saint Felix marks her as a rising star in the next generation of Black poetics.

Freeman awakens us to numinous possibilities that await both in art and in the whole wide world around us. It is a book of uncommon grace.

A brilliant exploration of the senses, and how sound is a way of understanding the complexities of the Black experience.

Mita Mahato’s Arctic Play is a trembling climate change chronicle that transports its reader to a place, a time, and a feeling.

This project is a joint release of The 3rd Thing Press, Antiquated Future Records, and Beacon Sound.

Tender Revolutions / Yellow Songs by Dao Strom

Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, Dao Strom’s Tender Revolutions / Yellow Songs vibrates with the ramifications and ripples of Empire. A hybrid project comprised of writings, music, and visual ephemera, each of the four Yellow Songs books and the Tender Revolutions album reckon with the intimate consequences of the colonial project, reconfiguring them into complex and lucid, literal and figurative songs of selfhood. Embodied, critical, wholehearted, collective, personal, genre-defying—Tender Revolutions / Yellow Songs renders the brute force of history with tender precision.

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