Nightboat Books
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Pause the Document
$17.95 Add to cartExperimental poet and translator M?nica de la Torre’s new collection is a document of both the events of 2020 and the process of a poet rethinking artistic practice as she tracks subtle shifts in her … [more below]
- Author: de la Torre, M?nica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622463
- Language: English
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Ponk!
$19.95 Add to cartA punk rock anti-memoir told through the eyes of a biracial Afrolatino punk academic.
P?NK! follows Moose, an alienated academic and lead guitarist for Pipebomb!, as he navigates through spaces in and… [more below]
- Author: Clayton, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622439
- Language: English
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Unsex Me Here
$18.95 Add to cart“A fairy tale, in the classic, sparkling, and powerful ways.” –Michelle Tea
If Aurora Mattia is a switchboard operator, then Unsex Me Here is her call log. Please hold. There’s someone on the other li… [more below]
- Author: Mattia, Aurora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622706
- Language: English
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Material Witness
$17.95 Add to cartA series of meditative long poems that ritualize perception as a way of maintaining kinship with the non-human world.
In Material Witness, the poet as human subject keeps vigil over the material world … [more below]
- Author: Machado, Aditi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1643622447
- Language: English
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Pleasureis Amiracle
$17.95 Add to cartA book of poems written out of a depressive episode, in which a devotional approach to music and desire reestablishes communication between the poet’s body and the world.
In pleasureis amiracle, the p… [more below]
- Author: Messinger, Bianca Rae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622412
- Language: English
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Permanent Record
$19.95 Add to cartA visionary anthology that examines and reimagines the archive as a form of collective record-keeping, featuring work by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Douglas Kearney, Brenda Shaughnessy, Mahogany L. Brown, a… [more below]
- Author: Tokunow, Naima Yael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622420
- Language: English
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Consider the Rooster
$19.95 Add to cartConsider the Rooster serves as an ode to a rooster’s crow, a catalyst for awakening, both literally and figuratively.
Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic, the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder by police, and… [more below]
- Author: Bendorf, Oliver Baez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1643622382
- Language: English
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Love, Leda
$16.95 Read moreNewly discovered in the author’s archives and published for the first time in the UK in 2023, this portrait of queer, working class London drifts from coffee shop to house party, in search of the next… [more below]
- Author: Hyatt, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1643622455
- Language: English
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Ban En Banlieue
$15.95 Read moreAn evocative exploration of body and politics by one of our most exciting innovative writers. Bhanu Kapil’s Ban en Banlieue follows a brown (black) girl as she walks home from school in the first mome… [more below]
- Author: Kapil, Bhanu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1937658244
- Language: English
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Love Is Colder Than the Lake
$17.95 Read moreSearing in its energies and mysterious in its icy depths, Love is Colder than the Lake is a tour-de-force of the experimental French poet Liliane Giraudon’s power and range.
Love is Colder than the Lak… [more below]
- Author: Giraudon, Liliane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1643621971
- Language: English
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The African Desperate
$15.95 Read moreThe acerbically funny and intimate screenplay for acclaimed visual artist Martine Syms’s debut film, The African Desperate.
The African Desperate follows Palace Bryant on one very long day in 2017 that
- Author: Syms, Martine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 164362170X
- Language: English
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Kissing Other People or the House of Fame
$17.95 Read moreA book in two halves, Kissing Other People or the House of Fame opens with a sequence of poems that roam the grotty, sublime streets: patting rats, reading pamphlets, enduring labour, acquiring falafe… [more below]
- Author: Gabriel, Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1643621793
- Language: English
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A Beauty Has Come
$18.95 Add to cartA collection of psychedelic poems inspired by Egyptian queen, Nefertiti, exploring the slippage between her image and legacy across time, place, and space.
A Beauty Has Come takes the reader on a sonic
- Author: Gibson, Jasmine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1643621750
- Language: English
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Toxicon and Arachne
$17.95 Read moreThis virtuosic poetry collection asks: how does the body gestate grief? How does toxicity birth catastrophe?
- Author: McSweeney, Joyelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1643620185
- Language: English
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The Mausoleum of Lovers: Journals 1976-1991: Journals 1976-1991
$24.95 Read moreThe Mausoleum of Lovers comprises Guibert’s journals, kept from 1976-1991. Functioning as an atelier, it forecasts the writing of a novel, which does not materialize as such; the journal itself — a m… [more below]
- Author: Guibert, Hervé
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: May 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1937658228
- Language: English
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Plastic: An Autobiography
$19.95 Read moreWINNER of the 2022 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction!
WINNER of the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction!
“Plastic is powerful and moving, a deep, personal exploration of the moder
- Author: Cobb, Allison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 164362038X
- Language: English
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Common Life
$17.95 Read moreA wry, cinematic tour through multiple forms: the poem, the vignette, the play–all set in our laughably lamentable contemporary world.
In three poems, one play, and three short stories, St駱hane Bouq
- Author: Bouquet, Stéphane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 164362153X
- Language: English
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Desires Mothers to Please Others in Letters
$21.95 Read moreCo-published with SplitLevel Texts
Endlessly inclusive, The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, first published in 1994 and long out of print, evokes the complexity of real persons as it si… [more below]- Author: Mayer, Bernadette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 1937658678
- Language: English
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Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics
$32.95 Add to cartThe first of its kind, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, gathers together a diverse range of 55 poets with varying aesthetics and backgrounds. In addition to generous sampl… [more below]
- Author: Peterson, Trace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1937658104
- Language: English
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So Much for Life: Selected Poems
$19.95 Read moreA long awaited collection of poems by Mark Hyatt, one of the great lost writers of mid-century British poetry.
Scarcely published in his lifetime, Hyatt’s work -survives thanks to the intervention of- Author: Hyatt, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1643621785
- Language: English
