Books published by Nightboat Books

This visceral, thrilling collection of stories by prescient lesbian writer Camille Roy explores what it takes to survive as a young sex and gender outlaw in the heart of America.

Crafted through years-long collaborations, OBB aka The Original Brown Boy is a postcolonial techno dream-pop comics poem that records two decades of the author's experiences as an immigrant and artist

Winner of the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize, Imagine Us, The Swarm offers seven powerful texts that form a constellation of voices, forms, and approaches to confront loneliness, silence, and death.

A new collection of poems by Lambda Award winner, Rosamond S. King, conceptualizing state violence, racism, and the persistence of black desire, resistance, and joy

A vibrant work of lyric, conceptual, and confessional poetic modes pitched to enact a queer politics of liberation

A collection of hybrid essays on landscape and visual art that implicitly recognizes our obligations to the earth and presents the earth in ways that make others recognize them too.

Internationally recognized for his works in telepresence and bioart, Kac presents here, translated into English for the first time, his early political poems and performance texts from his early career in Brazil.

Two writers sail to a small island to search for a lost portrait of a beloved French writer.

A collection of original essays written by contemporary poets about the innovative and unforgettable novels written by their predecessors.

A dystopian feminist experiment in invented English by an internationally known, award-winning poet and artist.

An anti true crime novel about patricide, adolescent desire, and Southern working class life.

A collection by renowned poet and scholar Erica Hunt, spanning from the 1980s to the present.

A book-length poem that grapples with the global and the globalized, bringing personal reflection to our tumultuous world.

A moving poetic account of grief and record of post-traumatic stress after the loss of a parent.

Urban and pastoral, highly figured and fragmented, grieving and dreaming, the prose poems of The Blue Absolute set people moving and thinking amidst a flurry of dashes, dots, perspective shifts, and the fragmented action of San Francisco, the great city on the edge.

An engaging art novel turned travel guide, not to places, but to ways and worlds of travel

40th anniversary reprinting of a beloved fable-manifesto from the 1970s queer counterculture.

An arresting new translation of poems, originally written in French, by one of our greatest philosopher poets

A debut collection of playfully irreverent ekphrastic poems inspired by the author's engagement with art, architecture and music

An irreverently tender profile of Black trans life surviving & thriving during contemporary political turmoil.

A sumptuous lyric exploration of the pain & pleasure of embodiment amidst what feels like end times.

A deftly woven book-length poem that questions the existence of universal individual rights such as speech and citizenship, especially in relation to borders, both national and linguistic.

A selection of poems by celebrated poet Gillian Conoley that spans her arresting body of work: from the idiosyncrasies of Texas girlhood toward an encompassing inquiry into spirit and matter, individual and state. FINALIST for the California Book Awards

An urgent and vital debut collection of poems that mixes ekphrasis with reportage to draw a new narrative of our present-day migration crises