Litmus Press Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Body Was: Suites & Their Variations (2006-2009)
Isabelle GarronCan't make it to AWP this year? Neither could we! Never fear, @spdbooks is running a virtual AWP sale: 30% off select titles with code AWP2022 Snag a copy of Aja Couchois Duncan's Vestigial & Isabelle Garron's Body Was, trans. Eléna Rivera, with the discount code! #AWP2022 https://t.co/KkKU5hwNOX
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Human/Nature Poems
Tracie Morris⚡NEW⚡ Tracie Morris's human / nature poems is hot off the press and available to purchase here— https://t.co/KErukvkRCO. What an honor it's been to help manifest these intimate portraits of home springing from displacements of travel & returning, of memory & its triggers. https://t.co/qN883LWV8E
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Restless Continent
Aja Couchois DuncanAja Couchois Duncan (“Vestigial,” 2021; “Restless Continent,” 2016) on cancel culture: “Love is not something that is hidden somewhere, waiting to be found. It is something we create together—something that must be cultivated and practiced.” https://t.co/GuhqyZvQZs
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All That Beauty
Fred MotenAndrew Dorkin writes about humor in Joan Retallack’s BOSCH’D — alongside reviews of Morgan Parker’s Magical Negro and Fred Moten’s all that beauty — in the recent issue of Spoon River Poetry Review (46.2, winter 2021). @srpr_news https://t.co/xpVqjNBay8
Paperback, 2019
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mycelial Person
A. MontiAssistant Ed. Amanda Monti on her book Mycelial Person: "To make sense of time through stories satisfies such an innate human desire & palm reading does that in very literal ways... it’s so intimate but also playful, which is the kind of writing I want to produce."
Paperback, 2021
$21.99Member price:$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bharat Jiva
Kari EdwardsThrilled to share this beautiful Slovak translation by Richard L. Kramár of a selection from kari edwards' Bharat jiva — out on Psí Víno, a Czecho-Slovak platform for #contemporarypoetry Koukni na to! https://t.co/f3Me6jqbhg #kariedwards #translation #transpoetics #LGBTQIA https://t.co/gDFL6nW0Kx
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Actualities
Norma ColeWe're very excited for Marina Adams' exhibition "What Are You Listening To?" at LGDR gallery @ 3 East 89th St. On view through June 25th.. Marina Adams collaborated with Norma Cole on Actualities (Litmus Press, 2015). https://t.co/W6drAZ2moj #abstraction #paintersandpoets https://t.co/hG4p2b1BgA
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I, Caustic
Mohammed Khaïr-EddineAnnouncing a double book launch for Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine’s I, Caustic (Litmus 2022) and Proximal Morocco (UDP 2023). Both are translated by Jake Syersak, who will be joined by Pierre Joris and Emma Ramadan for readings and conversation. RSVP here: https://t.co/43atdpLcnh https://t.co/142e9zq1qU
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Hell Figures
E. Tracy GrinnellCześć ✨ Two fragments of our very own E. Tracy Grinnell's Hell Figures have been translated into Polish by Małgorzata Myk. 💘 Have a read through the Wizje online literary magazine: https://t.co/5WGMtonpzr #poetry #translation #etracygrinnell #hellfigures #polish https://t.co/wZJBtMsAH1
Paperback, 2016
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Proximal Moroccoâ "
Mohammed Khaïr-EddineTHIS COMING MONDAY // DOUBLE BOOK LAUNCH I, Caustic (Litmus 2022) and Proximal Morocco (Ugly Ducking Presse 2023) both by Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine translated by Jake Syersak. Off Paradise | 120 Walker St, Manhattan Monday, 5/22 · 6:30pm Details & RSVP: https://t.co/17SKxOQ42K https://t.co/VO4Lwggepq
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