Nightboat Books
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Doomstead Days
$17.95 Read moreWINNER of the 2020 FOUR QUARTETS PRIZE
LONGLISTED for the 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN POETRY
FINALIST for the the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
FINALIST for the KINGSLEY TUFTS POETRY AWARD
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- Author: Teare, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1643620029
- Language: English
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Nothing at All
$17.95 Add to cartAn atmospheric rumination on gendered violence, cosmic collapse, and colonialism.
From deep inside a black hole, comes Nothing at All–the space where everything collapses: form, genre, gender, and be… [more below]
- Author: Tapiero, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1643622986
- Language: English
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Residual
$19.95 Add to cartWriting alongside the specter of premature death, Tisa Bryant traces the contours of Black women’s interior lives and domestic spaces through meditations on literature, cinema, installations, and arch… [more below]
- Author: Bryant, Tisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 164362296X
- Language: English
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Perennial Counterpart
$18.95 Add to cartNAMED ONE OF LITERARY HUB’S “MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2026”
A poetic study in magical modes of connection over distance–how both friendship and reading are similar ways of being together while being
- Author: Chen, Yongyu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1643623109
- Language: English
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Glove Money
$18.95 Add to cartA hymn to perversity, a lyric pledge to desire and risk, Glove Money pages through the canon to “seed its sugar in your dreams.”
In this joyful and irreverent exploration of the role of poet-as lover, … [more below]
- Author: Dahlin, Sophia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622927
- Language: English
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Padam Padam: The Collected Poems
$24.95 Add to cartA posthumous celebration of the poet and provocateur Kevin Killian, Padam Padam pulses with camp, pop culture, and pleasure.
Kevin Killian–the puckish poet, playwright, novelist, scholar, and impresar… [more below]- Author: Killian, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622900
- Language: English
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The Nightmare Sequence
$19.95 Add to cartAn extraordinary collaboration by an award-winning duo–poet Omar Sakr and visual artist Safdar Ahmed-that bears witness to the genocide in Gaza.
The Nightmare Sequence is a searing response to the atr… [more below]
- Author: Skar, Omar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622978
- Language: English
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Perverts
$18.95 Add to cartPerverts traverses the psychic landscapes of Kay Gabriel and her community of friends, writers and organizers, piecing together a collective dream that both mirrors and transforms waking life.
Against
- Author: Gabriel, Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622943
- Language: English
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Nova Scotia House
$17.95 Add to cartJohnny Grant faces stark life decisions. Seeking answers, he looks back to his relationship with Jerry Field. When they met, nearly thirty years ago, Johnny was 19, Jerry was 45. They fell in love and
- Author: Porter, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622005
- Language: English
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Crocosmia
$17.95 Add to cartA revelatory novel (or parable) of art, adventure, and radical politics, set in a world on the precipice.
A philosophical fable, Crocosmia centers on Maya as she recollects the “great turning”–a momen… [more below]- Author: Mellis, Miranda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622757
- Language: English
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Local Woman
$17.95 Add to cartA pulpy, mytho-poetic dispatch from an “anarchist jurisdiction” that explores the liberatory possibilities of community and womanhood.
Enter: Local Woman, an archetypal figure, fresh from the forest in
- Author: Jmz, Jzl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622730
- Language: English
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Radical Love: Five Novels
$22.95 Read moreRadical Love gathers five of Fanny Howe’s novels: Nod, The Deep North, Famous Questions, Saving History, and Indivisible, previously out-of-print and hard to find classics whose characters wrestle wit… [more below]
- Author: Howe, Fanny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: December 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0976718537
- Language: English
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Dances of Time and Tenderness
$17.95 Add to cartFINALIST FOR THE 2025 LESLIE FEINBERG AWARD FOR TRANS AND GENDER-VARIANT LITERATURE
A cycle of stories linking queer memory, activism, death, and art in a transpoetic history of desire and touch.
Dances… [more below]- Author: Carter, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 164362234X
- Language: English
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Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing
$27.95 Add to cartA virtuosic inquiry into the forms and uses of healing, from ancient and modern medicine to contemporary literature, ecology, and protest.
In the era of the “chronic acute” long predating COVID-19, Ele… [more below]
- Author: Stecopoulos, Eleni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1643622374
- Language: English
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Death Styles
$17.95 Add to cartA record of daily bewilderments and accidental concessions to hope after a momentous loss.
In this follow-up to her award-winning collection, Toxicon and Arachne, Joyelle McSweeney proposes a link betw… [more below]
- Author: McSweeney, Joyelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1643622307
- Language: English
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Memories That Smell Like Gasoline
$22.95 Read more“Wojnarowicz is a spokesman for the unspeakable.” —New York Magazine
David Wojnarowicz, one of the most provocative artists of his generation, explores memory, violence, and the erotism of public spac- Author: Wojnarowicz, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622714
- Language: English
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I Hope This Helps
$18.95 Add to cartBending genre as a planetary body might bend spacetime, Bashir’s poems live as music and film, as memoir, observation, and critique, as movement across both cosmic and poetic fields.
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- Author: Bashir, Samiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622722
- Language: English
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Firespitter
$29.95 Add to cartA long-awaited, comprehensive collection of renowned poet and performance artist Jayne Cortez’s poetry.
Like the jazz rhythms that inspired and punctuated her practice, Jayne Cortez improvised her way … [more below]
- Author: Cortez, Jayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622323
- Language: English
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Fuel
$17.95 Add to cartThe poems in Fuel pick at the weave of oil-soaked world orders to interrogate the ways capitalist death-drive seeps into our unconscious lives.
Traversing multivalent intimacies from the underworld of
- Author: Stockton, Rosie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622749
- Language: English
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I Love Shopping
$15.95 Add to cartLauren Cook’s I Love Shopping–beloved on the Internet and IRL–is back in print.
Chickens have a collective soul. Heaven is full of the skateboarders you kissed in middle school. If the algorithm is
- Author: Cook, Lauren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622862
- Language: English
