Books published by Nightboat Books

A philosophical and epigrammatic meditation on a body immersed in language, history and place, refracted through film, photography and architecture

An experimental poem sequence inspired by a famous garden now in ruin

A distinctive, book-length poem written over the course of a year that carries forward the lineage of New York School poets

A new cross-genre collection that engages historical and personal explorations of gender and self

The first major literary anthology for queer poets of color in the United States.

Part two of an autobiographical trance trilogy: intimate experiments in queer documentary and improvisatory poetics

A new collection of poetry from the important experimental writer of the "A Tonalist" lyric

Andrew Durbin's debut novel asks what it means to belong to a place, an idea, and a time, even as those things begin to slip away

Olga Broumas and T Begley include new collaborations in this reprint of a long out-of-print erotic and phosphorescent collaborative work

On Walking On looks outward onto-or rather, walks through-the work of various writers for whom walking was or is an important element of daily life. The number of writers who were or are serious walkers is striking, and the connection goes back to antiquity, more recently including Woolf, Nerval, Sand, Debord, Sebald, and many others.

At last a major anthology of New Narrative, the movement fueled by punk, pop, porn, French theory, and social struggle to change writing forever.

The poems center the experience of the outsider, whether she is an immigrant, a woman, or queer.Sometimes direct, sometimes abstract, these poems engage different structures, forms, and experiences while addressing the sharp realities of family, sexuality, and immigration.

Written and arranged in an experimental mode akin to music or choreography, these fragmented lyrics create space and resonance honouring the physical splendour of both the body and the poem. This new edition includes several new poetic sequences and an extended essay.

Winner of the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry

This riveting new book of powerful poetry continues the author's investigation into the political and social violence of our times

A provocative new collection examining the power of language and race in contemporary culture by a leading American poet

An evocative exploration of body and politics by one of our most exciting innovative writers

A bracing lyrical exploration of the ethical limits of our militarized and eroticized landscape

Two striking lyric essays from master poet and philosopher Etel Adnan

A fragmented notebook investigates mental illness and trauma in the South Asian diaspora