Books published by Nightboat Books

*This timely reissue of an essential text on chronic illness, includes a new wide-ranging conversation with disability poetics scholar Declan Gould begun 2016. Focusing on the intersections of experimental poetics and the experiences of illness and invisible disability, Gould instigates a dialogue that situates the formal, thematic, and narrative concerns of The Empty Form in the broader context of what she calls a disability poetry of "radical accessibility." *After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eights years in Philadelphia, he is now an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville. *Authors other book, Doomstead Days was Longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry. *Author is former Pew Fellow in the Arts, and the recipient of poetry fellowships from the NEA, the MacDowell Colony, the American Antiquarian Society, the Fund for Poetry, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Headlands Center for the Arts.

*Written soon after the author realized he was dying of AIDS, he called this book "a short narrative on the idea that AIDS makes young people old." The book is both an attempt by the author to write into the aging he would miss and a meditation on being dependent on hired help. *This groundbreaking work now published with a new introduction by Shiv Kotecha contextualizing My Manservant within a larger framework of transgressive white writing that uses race as a literary device*Author was a well known French writer and photographer who wrote criticism for the Le Monde as well as some thirty books. His most notable work was To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, which presents an intimate portrait of Michel Foucault and played a significant role in changing public attitudes in France towards AIDS.*Translator is an award-winning full-time translator of French poetry, who has been selected for numerous prizes and accolades including The Culture Trip's "20 Translators Under 40" in 2017; being longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize and a finalist for the French-American Foundation Translation Prize; and winning the French Voices Award and the CLMP Firecracker Award. *The republication of The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life resulted in vast media coverage.

*Winner of Nightboat Poetry Prize*Author's poetry has been widely published in journals like Apogee, Nat. Brut, No, Dear, PANK, Peach Mag, the Poetry Project Newsletter, and the Rumpus. *Author was a co-curator of Segue Series and KGB Emerging Writers Reading Series. They have participated in public conversations and interviews, including a recent podcast conversation with An Duplan.*Author holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU, where they received multiple fellowships including the Goldwater Fellowship in 2018-2020, Provost's Global Research Initiative Fellowship in 2020.

*¿¿Author wrote book in 2016-2017 when she was living in New Jersey and traveling to Philly for grindr hookups. She says, "I was bored, broke and lonely, and then I was in the hospital for a while, and I wanted to talk to my friends. I thought about how hard it is in certain arrangements of sexual and gender life to talk about sex and gender honestly with the people you're fucking....Writing a series of letters in persona solved a number of problems at once: I could talk about myself without feeling like I was caving to the biographical imperative that structures a lot of trans literature, or disclosing or explaining myself to a gratified viewer. I could explore the largely repressed but widely present overlap between gay and trans forms of intimacy. I could talk about how rent-burdened I was, and how hard I found it to stay at the same address. Letters are extraordinarily permissive; direct address even more so. I took a bath in permission and I never got out of it.*Author is well connected in the New York poetry community as a co-founder and editor of Vetch: A Magazine of Trans Poetry and Poetics, co-curater of the Segue Series, and member of the Poetry Project Newsletter's editorial collective.*Author is co-editor of We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, which was a finalist for Publishing Triangle and Lambda Literary awards. Her work has been featured in The Brooklyn Rail, Social Text, The Recluse, The Believer, and elsewhere.*Author has been selected for many grants, fellowships, and residencies including The Poetry Project's Emerge-Surface-Be fellowship and Lambda Literary fellowship.*Author is a union organizer for adjunct instructors. When she's not teaching she's also organizing against jails, prisons, and policing. *Author has taught Writing at NYU, Cooper Union, Princeton, Prison Teaching Initiative, Bard Microcollege at Brooklyn Public Library as well as being a workshop leader at the the Poetry Project and Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. *Author holds a B.A. in Classics and Philosophy from Columbia University, an MPhil in Classics from Cambridge and a PhD from Princeton.*Author is very active on social media @unit01barbie (twitter)@unit01barbie (Instagram)

A deft book of aphorisms by an important French philosopher and writer

The winner of the 2018 Nightboat Poetry Prize that enters the space of ritual, incantation and trance with a stunning assemblage of images and structures.

* Meena Alexander was compiling this book during the last year and last months of her life.* The poems on the life of Sarra Copia Sulam are accompanied by Alexander's own original artwork.* Meena Alexander is an important writer in the disciplines of contemporary poetry, Women's and Gender Studies, Asian American literature and studies in globalism, migration and immigration as well trauma studies.* In the sequence "Grandmother's Garden" Alexander returns to the subjects of her groundbreaking memoir Fault Lines, which dealt with displacement and sexual trauma.

Based on slippages between languages and irreverent approaches to translation, the poems in Repetition Nineteen riff on creative misunderstanding in response to the prevailing political discourse.

A book-length essay that travels through the limits and landscapes of categorization in recent histories of literature and art

A collection of ¿addictively readable¿ daybook poems from a leading cultural critic and poet

A mesmerizing exploration of the intensity and power of volcanoes in personal, geologic, and spiritual time.

A riveting new volume exploring the power and provocation of medieval English and the trope of the seafarer

Aditi Machado’s lush poetic investigation of transnational and trans-lingual modes which received the 2019 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.

*Author is the 2020-2021 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate, and was a 2020 Poet Laureate Fellow with the Academy of American Poets. *Author was named as one of the San Francisco Bay Area's Women to Watch in 2017 by KQED Arts.*Author has been profiled in Content Magazine, Mercury News, SF Gate, and Metro Silicon Valley*Author is a VONA/Voices and Kundiman Poetry Fellow*Author started Santa Clara County's first Youth Poet Laureate Program in 2020 as a chapter with Urban Word New York City as part of the National Youth Poet Laureate Initiative. *Author co-founded Sunday Jump, a long-running open mic space in Los Angeles's Historic Filipinotown. *Author co-hosts the podcast Pinaystrology, which discusses BIPOC pop culture, poems, and the planets.*Author is currently the Poetry Editor at Angel City Review.*Author is Assistant Professor of English at Skyline College where she directs the Honors Transfer Program and teaches in the CIPHER (Hip Hop) Learning Community*Author holds an MFA in Writing from CalArts and a BA in Ethnic Studies with Honors and a minor in Urban Studies & Planning from the University of California, San Diego.

The long-awaited English-language translation of Hervé Guibert¿s arresting journals

A subtle, stunning work of lyric collage that expresses fluidity in all things: gender, sexuality, spirituality, and self

The acerbically funny and intimate screenplay for acclaimed visual artist Martine Syms's debut film, The African Desperate.The African Desperate follows Palace Bryant on one very long day in 2017 that starts with her MFA graduation in upstate New York and ends at a Chicago Blue Line Station. Set against the lush backdrop of late summer, Palace navigates the pitfalls of self-actualization and the fallacies of the art world. Shot through with Syms’s celebrated conceptual grit, humor, social commentary, and vivid visual language, The African Desperate leads us through picturesque landscapes and artists studios, from academic critiques to backseat hookups, and from the night of a wild graduation party to the morning of a lonely trip back home.

A collection of hybrid essays that engage the intersection of habitats, horticulture, and histories--poetic, personal and otherwise.

*Winner of Nightboat Poetry Prize *Author's work has appeared in POETRY, WUSSY, Mass Review, No Tokens, and The Margins. *Author is a member of the Brooklyn based drag/burlesque collective Switch N' Play, which has performed at The Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, National Sawdust, New York Live Arts and at NightGowns, hosted by the winner of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 9, Sasha Velour. *Of interest to readers invested in hybrid formations of identity and artifice; high fashion; self-aware performances of kitsch and camp; drag performers, performance artists, queer Asian Americans. *Of interest to readers of life writing and immigrant narratives; those interested in radical negotiations and survival of state power through queer desire, tender sublimity, everyday transcendence and cultural forms of resistance. *Author received fellowships from MacDowell, New York Foundation of the Arts, Kundiman, The Asian American Writers Workshop, Poets House, and Lambda Literary.*Poems were written a month out from them and their family's deportation proceedings.*Author currently works as the Communications Manager at Lambda Literary and the Editor of the Lambda Literary Review. *Author holds an MFA in Poetry from NYU*Instagram: @theillustriouspearl

*Author’s work has appeared in ELDERLY, YewJournal, Eleven Eleven, VOLT, Cutbank, New American Writing, Five Fingers Review and 26: A journal of poetry and poetics. *Of interest to anyone interested in boundaries between urban and “wild” or neglected or undeveloped spaces; the historic geography and blue-collar communities of San Francisco, Situationist flaneury, psychogeography and poetics. *Of interest to those in pursuit of a personal relationship with nature; the intersection of natural phenomena and spirituality; in blurring the boundaries between Western scientific knowledge and earth religions via the no-fly zones of literature, astrophysics, ecology and metaphysics *Of interest to those invested in explorations of queer, genderqueer and nonbinary identity through the lens of spirit, matter and humanity. *Poems were written over ten years while living in San Francisco, specifically the largely immigrant, still blue collar neighborhood Portola neighborhood. *Author is part of Milkweed Theater, a Bay Area community theater group. *Author has participated in numerous class presentations, including “Transgender Panel” and “Radical Love and Poetry” at The Athenian School (2017, 2015) and “Poets Studied and in Conversation) at UC Berkeley Extension (2015) *Author is a part of the local small press and letterpressing community and has created broadsides for events including the Bay Area Writers Resist Event (2017) *Author was twice awarded Chancellor’s Outstanding Staff Award, UC Berkeley *Author is a volunteer member/editor for Kelsey Street Press *Author was a guest curator for the Bay Area Poetry Marathon and for the a poetry series at Canessa Gallery *Author holds an MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco

A guided meditation on human extinction that imagines a post-apocalyptic Earth thriving without us.

An anthology of formally inventive writing by trans poets against capital and empire.