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THIS PAST WAS WAITING FOR ME: A CHRONICLE AT QUARTER CENTURY
by Sarah Trembath

ART / POETRY / CREATIVE NONFICTION

"Sarah Trembath’s voice is an authentic, deeply passionate one, calling us to task for the ways in which we have distorted or ignored the painful parts of our national history."
ADAM HOCHSCHILD, New York Times bestselling author  of King Leopold’s Ghost, To End All Wars, and Bury the Chains

This full-color, multi-genre book draws upon historical research to tell the unredacted story of our recent sociopolitical past. 

With its combination of scholarly research, "wongol" poetry, full-color artwork, personal essay, and extracted social media, this book reflects Black history onto our present moment. Trembath meticulously exposes the grammar by which official sources have obscured slavery's horrors; she also celebrates art and the possibility of progress.

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INTIMATE THINGS
by Laylage Courie

POETRY / EXPERIMENTAL / STAGEPLAY

Read Laylage Courie's poetic drama Intimate Things alongside classic pieces that inform the traditions among which it lives. Medieval, Renaissance, and Modernist writings weave a glittering firefly net--a ripe imaginative palate for Courie's meditation on the legendary romance of Heloise and Abelard. Includes select literary pairings curated by Lazuli Literary Group drawn from the writings of Judith Madan, William Shakespeare, W.H. Auden, Oscar Wilde, Aphra Behn, Alexander Pope, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Chidiock Tichborne, John Donne, Andrew Marvell, Wallace Stevens, and W.B. Yeats.

THE SPEECH OF FLOWERS AND VOICELESS THINGS
by Sakina B. Fakhri
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FICTION

The Speech of Flowers and Voiceless Things is a novel of absurdist political satire. In this work of literary fiction, a mistranslation in a single line of poetry instigates an escalating ripple of misconstrued text that threatens to culminate in a world war over five-pronged forks. 

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