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We Call to the Eye & the Night
Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage
Exquisitely curated and introduced by acclaimed authors Hala Alyan and Zeina Hashem Beck, We Call to the Eye & the Night gathers nearly two-hundred vibrant English-Language love poems by contemporary writers of Arab descent. Featured are evocative explorations of love and of the beloved, friendship and family, heritage and homeland, transporting us from city centers to the depths of the sea and to the stars above.
“We Call to the Eye & the Night is an exciting new resource, granting access to a myriad of Arab writers writing in English today.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
NeW & Forthcoming
American Analects by Gary Young
“There’s no word for what Young does, only for what he accomplishes—the capturing of small, daily miracles.” —Dorianne Laux
A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing by Kimberly Grey
"What we learn from these pages is the power of language—searing, ingenious language—to remake the self word-by-word, to ‘reassemble’ an ‘I’ in the present tense." —Julie Carr
Glass Jaw by Raisa Tolchinsky
Winner of the 2023 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry
“An astonishing, unforgettable collection.”― Laura van den Berg
An Incomplete Encyclopedia of Happiness and Unhappiness by Amy Newman
In poems that shift under the weight of their formal properties, Amy Newman describes a physical world stuffed with maddening beauty, trifling joys, and the will to persevere, even though all of it might come to a spectacular nothing.
Once Out of Nature by Joy Ladin
This compassionate, constructive volume collects eleven essays written between 2008, on the cusp of what Time called America's “transgender tipping point,” and 2021, as anti-trans laws began metastasizing around America.
Also forthcoming by Joy Ladin is Family: Poems.
Bound by Jubi Arriola-Headley
“In poem after poem Arriola-Headley shows how to plumb into the very heart of feeling through poetry’s unique means, with a lyric assurance, formal variety, captivating sensibility, and lambent humor distinctly his own. Bound confirms he is one of our best!”—John Keene
Updates
Exploding Head, Cynthia Marie Hoffman’s OCD memoir-in-prose-poems, is getting a lot of well-deserved attention!
Read a conversation with Electric Lit about the cover art, listen to a review by Benjamin Landry on VerseCurious podcast, or order your copy here.