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TIN HOUSE
POETRY CATALOG NEW
TITLES
& ESSENTIAL
BACKLIST
2021
Contents All The Names Given. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 My Darling from the Lions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Superdoom: Selected Poems.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The Perseverance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Negotiations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Resistencia: Poems of Protest and Revolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Anodyne.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 My Baby First Birthday. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Good Boys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 A Sand Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Feed.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 A Fortune for Your Disaster.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Magical Negro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 When Rap Spoke Straight to God. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Junk.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 The Möbius Strip Club of Grief. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Nature Poem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Last Sext. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Someone Else’s Wedding Vows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Portuguese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Contact and Distribution Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
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A powerful and deeply personal
collection of poems from the award-
winning author of The Perseverance All The Names
Given
b y R AYMON D A N TR O B US
O n the heels of his much-lauded debut
collection, Raymond Antrobus continues
his essential investigation into language, miscom-
munication, place, and memory in All The Names
Given, while simultaneously breaking new ground
in both form and content.
The collection opens with poems about the
author’s surname—one that shouldn’t have sur-
vived into modernity—and examines the rich and
fraught history carried within it. As Antrobus
outlines a childhood caught between intimacy
and brutality, sound and silence, and conflicting
racial and cultural identities, the poem becomes a
space in which the poet reckons with his own an-
cestry, and bears witness to the indelible violence
of the legacy wrought by colonialism.
The poems travel through space—shifting
fluidly between England, South Africa, Jamaica, and
the American South—and brilliantly move from
an examination of family history into the wander-
ing lust of adolescence and finally, vividly, into a
complex array of marriage poems—matured, wiser, US $16.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $22.95
and more accepting of love’s fragility. Throughout, ISBN 978-1-951142-92-6 · 6" x 9" · 62 pages
All The Names Given is punctuated with [Caption ON SALE NOVEMBER 9, 2021
Poems] partially inspired by Deaf sound artist
Christine Sun Kim, in which the art of writing cap-
tions attempts to fill in the silences and transitions
between the poems as well as moments inside and
RAYMOND ANTROBUS
outside of them.
was born in London to an
Formally sophisticated, with a weighty English mother and Jamaican
perception and startling directness, All The Names father. He was awarded the
Given is a timely, tender book full of humanity and 2017 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize,
remembrance from one of the most important judged by Ocean Vuong,
young poets of our generation. as well as the 2019 Sunday
Times/University of Warwick
Young Writer of the Year Award. His debut collection, The
Perseverance, won the Ted Hughes Award, the Rathbones
Folio Prize, and the Somerset Maugham Award, and
was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, among oth-
ers. Raymond is currently based between London and
Oklahoma City.
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“Rachel Long is an enchanting and
My Darling from heartwarming new voice in poetry.”
—BERNARDINE EVARISTO
the Lions NAMED A BEST POETRY BOOK
by R AC HEL LONG
OF 2020 BY THE GUARDIAN
SHORTLISTED FOR THE
RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE,
COSTA POETRY AWARD, AND
THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR
BEST FIRST COLLECTION
E ach poem in Rachel Long’s award-winning
My Darling from the Lions has a vivid story to
tell—of family quirks, the perils of dating, the grip
of religion, or sexual awakening—stories that are,
by turn, emotionally insightful, politically con-
scious, wise, funny, and outrageous. Told in three
sections, it’s a book about growing up, falling in
love with not-great men, girlhood, and Barbie
doll men in fast cars; a book about femininity, di-
vinity, familial shame, Black identity, and modern
culture.
US $16.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $22.95 Long reveals herself as a razor-sharp and
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original voice on the issues of sexual politics and
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cultural inheritance that polarize our current
moment. With a fresh commitment to the power
of the individual poem, her collection offers
immediate, wide-awake poetry that entertains
royally, without sacrificing a note of its urgency or
remarkable skill.
RACHEL LONG is a poet
My Darling from the Lions marks the arrival of a
and the founder of Octavia thrilling new voice and presence in poetry.
Poetry Collective for Women
of Colour, which is housed at
Southbank Centre in London.
My Darling from the Lions,
first published by Picador in
2020, is her debut collection.
She was born in London, and resides there today.
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From the acclaimed author of Milk Fed,
The Pisces, and So Sad Today, Superdoom
showcases Broder as one of the most Superdoom:
original and audacious poets working today.
Selected Poems
b y M E LIS S A B R ODE R
F eaturing a new introduction from the author,
Superdoom: Selected Poems brings together the
best of Melissa Broder’s three cult out-of-print
poetry collections—When You Say One Thing but
Mean Your Mother, Meat Heart, and Scarecrone—as
well as the best of her fourth collection, Last Sext.
Embracing the sacred and the profane, often
simultaneously, Broder gazes into the abyss and
at the human body, with humor and heartbreak,
lust and terror. Broder’s language is entirely her
own, marked both by brutal strangeness and raw
intimacy. At turns essayistic and surreal, bounc-
ing between the grotesque and the transcendent,
Superdoom is a must-have for longtime fans and
the perfect introduction to one of our most bril-
liant and original poets.
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MELISSA BRODER is the
author of the novels Milk Fed
and The Pisces, the essay col-
lection So Sad Today, and four
poetry collections, including Last
Sext. Broder has written for The
New York Times, Elle.com, VICE,
Vogue Italia, and The Cut. She is
the winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry. She lives in Los Angeles.
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OTHER PEOPLE’S COMFORT KEEPS
ME UP AT NIGHT—THE BOOK THAT
Other People’s LAUNCHED THE CAREER OF ONE
Comfort Keeps Me OF OUR MOST IMPORTANT YOUNG
AMERICAN POETS—IS BACK IN PRINT
Up at Night WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY
by MOR GAN PARKER
DANEZ SMITH.
“Hilarious and hard-hitting . . . it ripples
with energy, insight, and searing music.”
—TRACY K. SMITH
T he debut collection from award-winning
poet Morgan Parker demonstrates why
she’s become one of the most beloved writers
working today. Her command of language is on
full display. Parker bobs and weaves between
humor and pathos, grief and anxiety, Gwendolyn
Brooks and Jay-Z, The New York school and
reality television. She collapses any foolish dis-
tinctions between the personal and the political,
the “high” and the “low.” Other People’s Comfort
Keeps Me Up at Night not only introduced an
essential new voice to the world, it contains eve-
rything readers have come to love about Morgan
Parker’s work.
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MORGAN PARKER is a
poet, essayist, and novel-
ist. She is the author of the
young adult novel Who Put
This Song On? and the poetry
collections There Are More
Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
and Magical Negro, which
won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award. Parker’s
debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One World.
She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts
Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and has
been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic craftsper-
son” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.”
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A POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR AT
THE GUARDIAN,THE SUNDAY
TIMES, AND POETRY SCHOOL The Perseverance
b y R AYM ON D A N TR O B US
WINNER OF THE TED HUGHES
AWARD, THE RATHBONES FOLIO
PRIZE, AND THE SOMERSET
MAUGHAM AWARD; SHORTLISTED
FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
"This book is a gift, for how it repurposes
my understanding of treacherous
feelings, and shapes them into
something worth sticking around for.”
—HANIF ABDURRAQIB
I n the wake of his father’s death, the speaker in
Raymond Antrobus’s The Perseverance travels
to Gaudí’s cathedral in Barcelona. Ruminating on
the idea of silence and sound, he wonders whether
acoustics really can bring us closer to God. “Even
though,” he says, “I have not heard / the golden US $16.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $22.95
decibel of angels, / I have been living in a noiseless ISBN 978-1-951142-42-1 · 6" x 9" · 96 pages
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/ palace where the doorbell is pulsating / light and
I am able to answer.” So begins a stunning exami-
nation of a D/deaf experience alongside medita-
tions on loss, grief, education, and language, both
spoken and signed. With a global scope and a deep
intimacy, Antrobus draws on family and historical
figures to create a chorus of voices: on the page, in RAYMOND ANTROBUS was
our mouths, in our hands and ears. born in London to an English
The Perseverance is a book about communi- mother and Jamaican father.
He was awarded the 2017
cation and connection, about cultural inherit-
Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, judged
ance, about identity in a hearing world that takes by Ocean Vuong, as well as the
everything for granted, about the dangers we may 2019 Sunday Times/University
find—both individually and as a society—if we fail of Warwick Young Writer of
to understand each other. the Year Award. His debut collection, The Perseverance, won
the Ted Hughes Award, the Rathbones Folio Prize, and the
Somerset Maugham Award, and was shortlisted for the Griffin
Poetry Prize, among others. Raymond is currently based
between London and Oklahoma City.
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“An intimate, stunning collection.”
—JAQUIRA DÍAZ
Negotiations
by D EST IN Y O. BI RDSONG “Scalding and tender.”
—DONIKA KELLY
W hat makes a self? In her remarkable
debut collection of poems, Destiny O.
Birdsong writes fearlessly towards this ques-
tion. Laced with ratchetry, yet hungering for its
own respectability, Negotiations is about what
it means to live in this America, about Cardi B
and top-tier journal publications, about autoim-
mune disease and the speaker’s intense hunger
for her own body—a surprise of self-love in the
aftermath of both assault and diagnosis. It’s a
series of love letters to black women, who are
often singled out for abuse and assault, silencing
and tokenism, fetishization and cultural appro-
priation in ways that throw the rock, then hide
the hand. It is a book about tenderness and an
indictment of people and systems that attempt
to narrow black women’s lives, their power. But
it is also an examination of complicity—both a
US $16.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $22.95 narrative and a black box warning for a particular
ISBN 978-1-951142-13-1 · 6" x 9" · 152 pages kind of self-healing that requires recognizing
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culpability when and where it exists.
DESTINY O. BIRDSONG
is a Louisiana-born poet, fiction
writer, and essayist. She has
received fellowships from
Cave Canem, Callaloo, Jack
Jones Literary Arts, the Ragdale
Foundation, and MacDowell,
and won the Academy of
American Poets Prize, Naugatuck River Review’s 2016 Narrative
Poetry Contest, and Meridian’s 2017 “Borders” Contest in Poetry.
She earned both her MFA and PhD from Vanderbilt University,
and now lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee.
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“To read through these poems is to be
reminded again and again of our true
allegiance to each other.” Resistencia:
—from the introduction by
JULIA ALVAREZ
Poems of Protest
and Revolution
ed it ed b y MA R K E IS N E R a n d TIN A E S CA JA
W ith a powerful and poignant introduc-
tion from Julia Alvarez, Resistencia:
Poems of Protest and Revolution is an extraor-
dinary collection, rooted in a strong tradi-
tion of protest poetry and voiced by icons of
the movement and some of the most exciting
writers today. The poets of Resistencia explore
feminist, queer, Indigenous, and ecological
themes alongside historically prominent protests
against imperialism, dictatorships, and economic
inequality. Within this momentous collection,
poets representing every Latin American coun-
try grapple with identity, place, and belonging,
resisting easy definitions to render a nuanced
and complex portrait of language in rebellion.
Included in English translation alongside
their original language, the fifty-four poems in
Resistencia are a testament to the art of transla-
tion as much as the act of resistance. An all-star
team of translators, including former US Poet
Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera along with young,
emerging talent, have made many of the poems US $18.95 · Trade Paper Original · CAN $24.95
available for the first time to an English-speaking ISBN 978-1-951142-07-0 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 264 pages
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audience. Urgent, timely, and absolutely essen-
tial, these poems inspire us all to embrace our
most fearless selves and unite against all forms of MARK EISNER 's latest work, Neruda: The Biography of a
tyranny and oppression. Poet, was named a finalist for the PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for
Biography. Eisner also conceived of, edited, and was one of
the principal translators for City Lights’ The Essential Neruda:
Selected Poems. Eisner was also involved in the early stages of
the Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco, and continues to lead
Red Poppy, a literary nonprofit focused on Latin American poetry.
TINA ESCAJA is a Spanish American author, digital artist,
and distinguished professor at the University of Vermont. As
a literary critic, she has published extensively on gender and
contemporary Latin American and Spanish poetry and technol-
ogy. Considered a pioneer in electronic literature, Escaja’s
creative work transcends the traditional book format, leaping
into digital art, robotics, augmented reality, and multimedia
projects exhibited in museums and galleries internationally.
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“Brilliant.”
Anodyne —ILYA KAMINSKY
by KH ADI JAH QUEEN
T he poems that make up Anodyne consider
the small moments that enrapture us
alongside the daily threats of cataclysm. Formally
dynamic and searingly personal, Anodyne asks us
to recognize the echoes of history that litter the
landscape of our bodies as we navigate a complex
terrain of survival and longing. With an intimate
and multivocal dexterity, these poems acknowl-
edge the simultaneous existence of joy and
devastation, knowledge and ignorance, grief and
love, endurance and failure—all of the contrast
and serendipity that comes with the experi-
ence of being human. If the body is a world, or
a metaphor for the world, for what disappears
and what remains, for what we feel and what
we cover up, then how do we balance fate and
choice, pleasure and pain? Through a combina-
tion of formal lyrics, delicate experiments, sharp
rants, musical litany, and moments of wit that
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ISBN 978-1-947793-80-4 · 6" x 9" · 104 pages terrible consequences and stunning miracles of
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KHADIJAH QUEEN is
the author of Conduit, Black
Peculiar, Fearful Beloved,
Non-Sequitur, and I’m So Fine:
A List of Famous Men. A finalist
for the National Poetry Series, the
Balcones Poetry Prize, and the
CLMP Firecracker award in Fiction,
she is an assistant professor of creative writing at University of
Colorado at Boulder, and serves as core faculty for the low-residency
Mile-High MFA program at Regis University.9
FROM THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED
AUTHOR OF SOUR HEART
My Baby
“All-consuming anger had me devouring
this book in one sitting. And the book
First Birthday
b y JE N N Y ZHA N G
devoured me. We burned together.”
—MITSKI
R adiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday
is a collection that examines innocence,
asking us who gets to be loved and who has to
deplete themselves just to survive. Jenny Zhang
writes about accepting pain, about the way we
fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and
reduce women to their violations, traumas, and
body parts. She questions the way we feminize
and racialize nurturing, and live in service of
other people’s dreams. How we idealize birth
and being baby, how it’s only in our mothers’
wombs that we’re still considered innocent,
blameless, and undamaged, because it’s only then
that we don’t have to earn love. Her poems ex-
plore the obscenity of patriarchy, whiteness, and
capitalism, the violence of rescue and heroism.
The magic trick in My Baby First Birthday is that
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like some jeremiad. Zhang uses friendship as a ISBN 978-1-947793-81-1 · 6" x 9" · 208 pages
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lyric. She seeks tenderness, radiant beauty, and
having love for your mistakes. Through all this,
she writes about being alone—really alone, like
why-was-I-ever-born alone—and trying, despite
everything, to reach out and touch something—
skin to skin, animal to animal. JENNY ZHANG was born
in Shanghai and grew up in
New York. She is the author
of the poetry collection Dear
Jenny, We Are All Find and
the story collection Sour
Heart.10
“Ferocious.”
Good Boys —KAVEH AKBAR
by MEG AN FERNANDES
I n an era of rising nationalism and geopoliti-
cal instability, Megan Fernandes’s Good Boys
offers a complex portrait of messy feminist
rage, negotiations with race and travel, and
existential dread in the Anthropocene. The
collection follows a restless, nervy, cosmically
abandoned speaker failing at the aspirational
markers of adulthood as she flips from city
to city, from enchantment to disgust, always
reemerging—just barely—on the trains and
bridges and barstools of New York City. A
child of the Indian Ocean diaspora, Fernandes
enacts the humor and devastation of what it
means to exist as a body of contradictions. Her
interpretations are muddied. Her feminism is
accusatory, messy. Her homelands are theoreti-
cal and rootless. The poet converses with goats
and throws a fit at a tarot reading; she loves the
intimacy of strangers during turbulent plane
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poems possess an affection for the doomed:
false beloveds, the hounded earth, civilizations
intent on their own ruin. Fernandes skillfully
interrogates where to put our fury and, more
MEGAN FERNANDES importantly, where to direct our mercy.
is a writer and academic
living in New York City. She
is the author of The Kingdom
and After (Tightrope Books
2015). Her work has been
published in The New Yorker,
Tin House, Ploughshares,
Denver Quarterly, Chicago Review, Boston Review, Rattle, Pank,
The Common, Guernica, the Academy of American Poets,
and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, among others. She is
an assistant professor of English at Lafayette College. She
holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Santa
Barbara, and an MFA in poetry from Boston University.11
WINNER OF THE KINGSLEY TUFTS
POETRY PRIZE
A Sand Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE b y A R IA N A R E IN E S
2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
“Her writing is queer and raunchy, raw and
occult, seemingly never pulling away from
her deepest vulnerabilities. Yet Reines
simultaneously maintains a feeling of epic
poetry, of ancient intention.”
—DIANA ARTERIAN,
The New York Times Book Review
A Sand Book is a poetry collection in twelve
parts, a travel guide that migrates from
wildfires to hurricanes, tweety bird to the
president, lust to aridity, desertification to
prophecy, and mother to daughter. It explores
the negative space of what is happening to
language and to consciousness in our strange
and desperate times. From Hurricane Sandy
to the murder of Sandra Bland to the massacre US $17.95 · Paperback · CAN $23.95
at Sandy Hook, from the sand in the gizzards ISBN 978-1-951142-16-2 · 5 ½" x 8 ½" · 416 pages
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of birds to the desertified mountains of Haiti,
from Attar’s “Conference of the Birds” to
Chaucer’s “Parliament of Fowls” to Twitter,
A Sand Book is about change and quantifica-
tion, the relationship between catastrophe and
cultural transmission. It moves among houses
of worship and grocery stores, flitters between ARIANA REINES Named
one of Flavorwire’s 100 Most
geological upheaval and the weird weather of
Important Living Writers and “a
the Internet. In her long-awaited follow-up to crucial voice of her generation”
Mercury, Reines has written her most ambitious by Michael Silverblatt, Ariana
work to date, but also her most visceral and Reines is a poet, Obie-winning
satisfying. playwright, and performing
artist. Her books include A Sand
Book (Tin House 2019), the play Telephone (Wonder 2018),
The Origin Of The World (Semiotext(e)) for the Whitney Biennial
2014), Mercury (Fence 2011), Coeur de Lion (Mal-O-Mar 2007,
Fence 2011), and The Cow (Alberta Prize, Fence 2006).12
A NEW YORK TIMES
NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
Feed
by TOMMY PI CO
From the winner of the Whiting Award, an
American Book Award, and finalist for a
Lambda, Tommy Pico’s Feed is the final book
in the Teebs Cycle.
F eed is the fourth book in the Teebs tetral-
ogy. It’s an epistolary recipe for the main
character, a poem of nourishment, and a jaunty
walk through New York’s High Line park, with
the lines, stanzas, paragraphs, dialogue, and
registers approximating the park’s cultivated
gardens of wildness. Among the questions Feed
asks: What’s the difference between being alone
and being lonely? Can you ever really be friends
with an ex? How do you make perfect mac n
cheese? Feed is an ode of reconciliation to the
wild inconsistencies of a northeast spring, a
frustrating season of back-and-forth, of thaw
and blizzard, but with a faith that even amid
the mess, it knows where it’s going.
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TOMMY "TEEBS" PICO is
the author of the books IRL,
Nature Poem, and Junk. Feed
(Tin House Books, November
2019) completes the Teebs te-
tralogy. He's been the recipi-
ent of awards and fellowships
from the Whiting Foundation,
the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Poetry Foundation, the
New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Brooklyn Public
Library. He co-curates the reading series Poets with Attitude,
co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot, and is a contributing editor
at Literary Hub. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation
of the Kumeyaay nation, he now lives in Los Angeles, CA.13
WINNER OF THE LENORE MARSHALL
POETRY PRIZE
A Fortune for
WINNER OF THE
OHIOANA BOOK AWARD
Your Disaster
b y HAN IF A B DUR R AQ IB
“The fast-rising Ohio music journalist’s second
book of poems imports characters from, and
jokes about, pop, rap, rock, and soul . . . to
animate his corrosively serious, hard-to-forget
lines about love, sex, hypocrisy, self-discovery,
power, grief, and violence.”
—STEPHANIE BURT,
The New York Times Book Review
I n his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown
Ain’t Worth Much, poet, essayist, music critic,
and New York Times bestselling author Hanif
Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about
how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the
kind that renders them a different version of
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Michael Jordan pushed off in the ’98 finals. It’s
about forgiveness, and how none of the author’s
black friends wanted to listen to “Don’t Stop
Believin’.” It’s about wrestling with histories, per-
sonal and shared, and how black people can write
HANIF ABDURRAQIB is a
about flowers at a time like this. Abdurraqib writes poet, essayist, and cultural critic
across different tones and registers, with humor from Columbus, Ohio. His first
and sadness, and uses touchstones from the world poetry collection, The Crown
outside—from Marvin Gaye to Nikola Tesla to his Ain’t Worth Much, was named a
finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book
neighbor’s dogs—to create a mirror, inside of which
Award and was nominated
every angle presents a new possibility.
for a Hurston/Wright Legacy
Award. His first collection of essays, They Can’t Kill Us Until They
Kill Us, was named a best book of 2017 by BuzzFeed; Esquire;
NPR; O, The Oprah Magazine; and Pitchfork, among others. His
next book, Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest,
was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Kirkus
Prize, and was longlisted for a 2019 National Book Award. In
2021, he will release the book A Little Devil in America.14
Whitman’s most beloved poem, “Song
Whitman of Myself,” illustrated, illuminated, and
presented like never before.
Illuminated: Song
of Myself
by AL L E N CRAWFORD
W alt Whitman’s iconic collection of po-
ems, Leaves of Grass, has earned a repu-
tation as a sacred American text. Whitman
himself made such comparisons, going so far as
to use biblical verse as a model for his own. So
it’s only appropriate that artist and illustrator
Allen Crawford has chosen to illuminate—like
medieval monks with their own holy scriptures—
Whitman’s masterpiece and the core of his
poetic vision, “Song of Myself.” Crawford
has turned the original sixty-page poem
from Whitman’s 1855 edition into a sprawl-
ing 234-page work of art, available now in its
second Tin House edition with a new cover in
celebration of Whitman’s 200th birthday. The
handwritten text and illustrations intermingle
in a way that’s both surprising and wholly in
tune with the spirit of the poem—they’re exu-
berant, rough, and wild. Whitman Illuminated:
Song of Myself is a sensational reading experi-
ence, an artifact in its own right, and a master-
ful tribute to the Good Gray Poet.
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ALLEN CRAWFORD is an
artist, illustrator, designer,
and writer. Allen’s award-
winning book, Whitman
Illuminated: Song of Myself
is an illustrated, hand-
lettered, 256-page edition of
Walt Whitman’s epic poem.
Allen and his work have appeared in Communication Arts,
American Illustration, Type Directors Club, Print, Applied
Arts, The New York Times, Interview, Orion, Frieze, Vice, Tin
House, and Art in America. He lives in a small Quaker town
in central New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia.15
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL
BOOK CRITICS
Magical Negro
CIRCLE POETRY AWARD
b y MOR GAN PAR K E R
WINNER OF THE
CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD
From the breakout author of There Are
More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
comes a profound and deceptively funny
exploration of Black American womanhood.
M agical Negro is an archive of black every-
dayness; a catalog of contemporary folk
heroes; an ethnography of ancestral grief; an
inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs.
These American poems are both elegy and jive,
joke and declaration, songs of congregation and
self-conception. These poems connect themes of
loneliness, displacement, grief, ancestral trauma,
and objectification, while exploring and trou-
bling tropes and stereotypes of Black Americans.
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personal narratives, the collection tackles interior
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and exterior politics—of both the body and society,
of both the individual and the collective experi-
ence. In Magical Negro, Parker creates a space of
witness, of airing grievances, of pointing out pat-
terns. In these poems are living documents, pleas,
latent traumas, inside jokes, and unspoken anxieties MORGAN PARKER is a
poet, essayist, and novel-
situated as firmly in the past as in the present—
ist. She is the author of the
timeless black melancholies and triumphs. young adult novel Who
Put This Song On? and the
poetry collections There Are
More Beautiful Things Than
Beyoncé and Magical Negro,
which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Parker’s debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One
World. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the
Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and
has been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic crafts-
person” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.”16
“Erica Dawson has expanded the
When Rap possibilities of what we think poetry can do.”
Spoke Straight —JERICHO BROWN
to God
by E R ICA DAWSON
W hen Rap Spoke Straight to God isn’t sacred or
profane, but a chorus joined in a single
soliloquy, demanding to be heard. There’s Wu-
Tang and Mary Magdalene with a foot fetish,
Lil’ Kim and a self-loving Lilith. Slurs, catcalls,
verses, erasures—this book-length poem con-
fronts the tragedies of Trump, black lives, belief,
and the boundaries of being a woman. Both
grounded and transcendent, the book is reality
and possibility. Sometimes abrasive and often
abraded, Dawson doesn’t flinch.
A mix of traditional forms where son-
nets mash up with sestinas morphing to heroic
couplets, When Rap Spoke Straight to God insists
that while you may recognize parts of the poem’s
world, you can’t anticipate how it will evolve.
With a literal exodus of light in the book’s
final moments, When Rap Spoke Straight to God
is a lament for and a celebration of blackness.
It’s never depression; it’s defiance—a persistent
resistance. In this book, like Wu-Tang says, the
marginalized “ain’t nothing to fuck with.”
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ERICA DAWSON is the au-
thor of two previous collections
of poetry: The Small Blades
Hurt (Measure Press, 2014),
winner of the 2016 Poets’ Prize,
and Big-Eyed Afraid (Waywiser
Press, 2007), winner of the
2006 Anthony Hecht Poetry
Prize. Her work has appeared in Barrow Street; Bennington
Review; three editions of Best American Poetry; Crazyhorse;
Harvard Review; Life: 50 Poems Now; The Pushcart Prize XLII:
Best of the Small Presses; Rebellion; Resistance; Virginia
Quarterly Review; and numerous other journals and antholo-
gies. She lives in Tampa, Florida, and is an associate professor
at University of Tampa, where she also directs the low-residency
MFA program.17
“A true American odyssey, complete
with a reluctant hero who defies all
odds to survive. . . . This is poetry of the
Junk
highest order.” b y TO M M Y PICO
—JENNY ZHANG
T he third book in Tommy Pico’s Teebs te-
tralogy, Junk is a breakup poem in couplets:
ice floe and hot lava, a tribute to Janet Jackson
and nacho cheese. In the static that follows the
loss of a job or an apartment or a boyfriend, what
can you grab on to for orientation? The narrator
wonders what happens to the sense of self when
the illusion of security has been stripped away.
And for an indigenous person, how do these lost
markers of identity echo larger cultural losses
and erasures in a changing political landscape?
In part taking its cue from A. R. Ammons’s
Garbage, Teebs names this liminal space “Junk,”
in the sense that a junk shop is full of old things
waiting for their next use; different items that
collectively become indistinct. But can there be
a comfort outside the anxiety of utility? An ap-
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TOMMY "TEEBS" PICO is
the author of the books IRL,
Nature Poem, and Junk. Feed
(Tin House Books, November
2019) completes the Teebs
tetralogy. He's been the
recipient of awards and
fellowships from the Whiting
Foundation, the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Poetry
Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the
Brooklyn Public Library. He co-curates the reading series
Poets with Attitude, co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot, and
is a contributing editor at Literary Hub. Originally from the
Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now
lives in Los Angeles, CA.18
“Many poets have attempted to imagine
the afterlife, and Stone’s addition to the
The Möbius Strip tradition disrupts it in the best way: she
Club of Grief is our Virgilian guide through a wildly
conceived purgatorial landscape.”
by BIANCA STONE
—THE PARIS REVIEW
T he Möbius Strip Club of Grief is a collection
of poems that weave in and out of a bur-
lesque purgatory where the living pay—dearly,
with both money and conscience—to watch the
dead perform scandalous acts otherwise unseen:
“$20 for five minutes. I’ll hold your hand in my
own,” one ghost says. “I’ll tell you you were good
to me.” Like Dante before her, Stone positions
herself as the living poet passing through and
observing the land of the dead. She imagines
a feminist Limbo where women run the show
and create a space to navigate the difficulties
endured in life. With a nod to her grandmother
Ruth Stone’s poem “The Möbius Strip of Grief,”
Stone creates a labyrinthine underworld as a way
to confront and investigate complicated family
relationships in the hopes of breaking the never-
ending cycle of grief.
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BIANCA STONE is the au-
thor of The Möbius Strip Club
of Grief (Tin House, 2018),
Someone Else’s Wedding
Vows (Octopus Books and
Tin House, 2014), and Poetry
Comics from the Book of
Hours (Pleiades Press, 2014).
She lives with her husband, the poet Ben Pease, and their
daughter, Odette, in Goshen, Vermont.19
A book-length poem about how an
American Indian (or NDN) writer can’t bring
himself to write about nature, but is forced
Nature Poem
to reckon with colonial-white stereotypes, b y TO M M Y PICO
manifest destiny, and his own identity as an
young, queer, urban-dwelling poet.
N ature Poem follows Teebs—a young, queer,
American Indian (or NDN) poet—who
can’t bring himself to write a nature poem. For
the reservation-born, urban-dwelling hipster,
the exercise feels stereotypical, reductive, and
boring. He hates nature. He prefers city lights
to the night sky. He’d slap a tree across the face.
He’d rather write a mountain of hashtag punch-
lines about death and give head in a pizza-parlor
bathroom; he’d rather write odes to Aretha
Franklin and Hole. While he’s adamant—bratty
even—about his distaste for the word “natural,”
over the course of the book we see him confront-
ing the assimilationist, historical, colonial-white
ideas that collude NDN people with nature.
The closer his people were identified with the
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gradually learns how to interpret constella-
tions through his own lens, along with human
nature, sexuality, language, music, and Twitter.
Even while he reckons with manifest destiny and
genocide and centuries of disenfranchisement, TOMMY "TEEBS" PICO is
the author of the books IRL,
he learns how to have faith in his own voice.
Nature Poem, and Junk. Feed
(Tin House Books, November
2019) completes the Teebs
tetralogy. He's been the
recipient of awards and
fellowships from the Whiting
Foundation, the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Poetry
Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the
Brooklyn Public Library. He co-curates the reading series
Poets with Attitude, co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot, and
is a contributing editor at Literary Hub. Originally from the
Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now
lives in Los Angeles, CA.20
“This is a marvelous book. See for yourself.
Morgan Parker is a fearlessly forward and
There Are More forward-thinking literary star.”
Beautiful Things —TERRANCE HAYES
Than Beyoncé
by MOR GAN PARKER
T he only thing more beautiful than Beyoncé
is God, and God is a black woman sip-
ping rosé and drawing a lavender bath, texting
her mom, belly-laughing in the therapist’s office,
feeling unloved, being on display, daring to sur-
vive. Morgan Parker stands at the intersections
of vulnerability and performance, of desire and
disgust, of tragedy and excellence. Unrelentingly
feminist, tender, ruthless, and sequined, these
poems are an altar to the complexities of black
American womanhood in an age of non-in-
dictments and déjà vu, and a time of wars over
bodies and power. These poems celebrate and
mourn. They are a chorus chanting: You’re gonna
give us the love we need.
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MORGAN PARKER is a
poet, essayist, and novel-
ist. She is the author of the
young adult novel Who
Put This Song On? and the
poetry collections There Are
More Beautiful Things Than
Beyoncé and Magical Negro,
which won the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Parker’s debut book of nonfiction is forthcoming from One
World. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the
Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and
has been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic crafts-
person” of “considerable consequence to American poetry.”21
“The poems of Melissa Broder pull off a
strange and compelling trick: to exist
meatily, viscerally, and even bloodily at
Last Sext
the center of a void. Holes thump through b y ME LIS S A B R ODE R
the pages, blankness crunches bone, zeros
growl with hunger. Each line is a little
heartbeat hurling down the abyss.”
—PATRICIA LOCKWOOD
I n her electric fourth collection, Melissa
Broder penetrates the itch of existence and
explores numberless deaths: the annihilation of
self, the bereavement of love, the destruction
of fantasy, the transmutation, even, of our ideas
of dying. What emerges is an infinite series of
false endings—each a trap door containing the
possibility for alchemy, rebirth, and renewal. Part
elegy, part confessional, part battle cry, Last Sext
confronts both eternal longing and the mystery
of mortality, with language hot, primal, and dark,
as Broder’s fans have come to love.
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MELISSA BRODER is the
author of the novels Milk Fed
and The Pisces, the essay col-
lection So Sad Today, and four
poetry collections, including
Last Sext. Broder has written
for The New York Times, Elle.
com, VICE, Vogue Italia, and
The Cut. She is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry. She lives
in Los Angeles.22
“Bianca Stone’s poems are powerful, moving,
and original. . . . We’re in the presence of a
Someone Else’s naked human voice, not concealing itself—or
Wedding Vows overreaching to expose itself—which dives as
deep as voices go.”
by BIANCA STONE —SHARON OLDS
S omeone Else’s Wedding Vows reflects on the
different forms of love, which can be both
tremendously joyous and devastatingly destruc-
tive. The title poem confronts a human ritual
of marriage from the standpoint of a wedding
photographer. Within the tedium and aliena-
tion of the ceremony, the speaker grapples with
a strange human hopefulness. In this vein, Stone
explores our everyday patterns and customs, and
in doing so, exposes them for their complexities.
Drawing on the neurological, scientific, psycho-
logical, and even supernatural, this collection
confronts the difficulties of love and family.
Stone rankles with a desire to understand, but
the questions she asks are never answered simply.
These poems stroll along the abyss, pointing to-
wards the absurdity of our choices. They recede
into the imaginative in order to understand and
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we like this? There is no easy answer. So while
we look down at our hands, perplexed, Someone
Else’s Wedding Vows raises a glass to the future.
BIANCA STONE is the au-
thor of The Möbius Strip Club
of Grief (Tin House, 2018),
Someone Else’s Wedding
Vows (Octopus Books and
Tin House, 2014), and Poetry
Comics from the Book of
Hours (Pleiades Press, 2014).
She lives with her husband, the poet Ben Pease, and their
daughter, Odette, in Goshen, Vermont.23
“Brandon's restlessness translates
into disruptive, migratory syntax that
defies identity, its logic.” Portuguese
—DON MEE CHOI b y B R AN DO N S HIM ODA
T he poems in Portuguese began while
Brandon rode city buses around Seattle,
and were inspired by his fellow passengers. At
the same time, they began as responses to the
words and writings of visual artists, mostly
painters, whom Brandon was reading while
riding the bus, especially Etel Adnan, Eugène
Delacroix, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Klee, and
Joan Mitchell, all of whom appear in the book.
Portuguese owes also a debt to a visit to Beirut,
Lebanon (2009); six months spent in a cabin
in the woods of western Maine (2010-2011);
and the Japanese poets Kazuko Shiraishi,
Ryuichi Tamura and Minoru Yoshioka, and
their translators.
Throughout writing the poems that be-
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book actually began in the early 1980s, while on
the bus to elementary school in a small town in
New England, when Brandon was taunted for
being “Portuguese.” In that sense, Portuguese re-
turns its author to this moment in which he felt
challenged to become what he was being called,
however falsely, and despite feeling confused,
flushed and afraid.
BRANDON SHIMODA is
However, Portuguese is both more and less than the author of several books—
all these things. It was—and is—a way to keep up including O Bon (Litmus
with life in the form of drawing observations and Press, 2011), The Girl Without
feelings on paper, and to give form to the energy Arms (Black Ocean, 2011),
making up some part of memory. and The Alps (Flim Forum,
2008)—as well as numerous
limited editions of collabora-
tions, drawings, writings, and songs. Born in California, he
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