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Author
Series
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
How do you imagine trans liberation while living in a cis world? On My Way To Liberation follows a gender nonconforming body moving through the streets of Chicago. From the sex shop to the farmers market, the family dinner table to the bookstore, trans people are everywhere, though often erased. Writing towards a trans future, H. Melt envisions a world where trans people are respected, loved and celebrated every day.
Author
Series
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Situated squarely in the oral traditions of hip-hop and breakbeat poetry, Idris Goodwin's work bridges the divide between the reader and the poet. Combining tongue in cheek and the irreverent with the melancholy and incisive, Goodwin's poetry samples and repurposes pop culture--in order to reflect and remix the stories we tell ourselves--and each other--in order to live"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Everything Must Go is an illustrated collection of poems in the spirit of a graphic novel, a collaboration between poet Kevin Coval and illustrator Langston Allston. The book celebrates Chicago's Wicker Park in the late 1990's, Coval's home as a young artist, the ancestral neighborhood of his forebears, and a vibrant enclave populated by colorful characters. Allston's illustrations honor the neighborhood as it once was, before gentrification remade...
Series
BreakBeat poets volume 3
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The collected poems dispel the notion that there is one correct way to be a Muslim by holding space for multiple, intersecting identities while celebrating and protecting those identities.
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Series
BreakBeat poets volume 4
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A BreakBeat Poets anthology that opposes silence and re-mixes the soundtrack of the Latinx diaspora across diverse poetic traditions. In the dynamic tradition of the BreakBeat Poets anthology, The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext celebrates the embodied narratives of Latinidad. Poets speak from an array of nationalities, genders, sexualities, races, and writing styles, staking a claim to our cultural and civic space. Like Hip-Hop, we honor what was,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Haymarket Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Based on original reporting from West Africa and the United States, and the poet's experiences as a doctor and journalist, If God Is A Virus charts the course of the largest and deadliest Ebola epidemic in history, telling the stories of Ebola survivors, outbreak responders, journalists and the virus itself. Documentary poems explore which human lives are valued, how editorial decisions are weighed, what role the aid industrial complex plays in crises,...
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