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.

Path-breaking lesbian poet & scholar Judy Grahn returns to the stories of Inanna the Mesopotamian goddess of erotic love and justice to reimagine the contemporary world.

A debut collection of love poems that resist subjection and ask how we might live together outside of capitalism, providing for each other through intimate acts of care and struggle

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 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.

Jackie Wang's magnetic and spellbinding debut collection of poetry that attempts to speak in the language of dreams.

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

The twentieth anniversary edition of an early autofi ction classic.

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

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 love poem about reflecting back on one's complicated sexuality, partnerships and relationships to kin.

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