Newly Published, From Palestinian Poetry to Stories on Reproductive Freedom – The New York Times

PEEP, by Danielle Blau. (Waywiser, paper, $17.) The winsome, intellectually probing poems in Blaus debut collection examine lived experience through the lens of myth, memory and rigorous philosophical inquiry, with one eye on the instant when, at this moments close, youll cross the border / into the moment after. Your shadows growing shorter.

36 VIEWS OF FUJI: Poems, by Kenton Wing Robinson. (Antrim House, paper, $25.) Robinsons title evokes Hokusai, and the form hes invented evokes haiku: Most of these poems contain three stanzas of three lines each, with frequent glances at nature. But as a whole they have a novelistic sweep, from childish wonder to an illicit affair to encroaching death.

LINE AND LIGHT: Poems, by Jeffrey Yang. (Graywolf, paper, $18.) Yangs fifth book takes the creative impulse itself as its subject, paying tribute to poetic forebears like Jean Valentine and Kamau Brathwaite, celebrating visionary cultures and supplementing the poems with drawings by the artist Kazumi Tanaka.

YOU CAN BE THE LAST LEAF: Selected Poems, by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat. Translated by Fady Joudah. (Milkweed, paper, $16.) The Palestinian poets U.S. debut gathers two decades of her intimate testimony about private life in a public war zone, where those who win by killing fewer children / are losers.

I KNOW WHATS BEST FOR YOU: Stories on Reproductive Freedom, edited by Shelly Oria. (McSweeneys, paper, $21.99.) In this collection that spans identity and genre, writers explore a breadth of experiences involving human reproduction, including pregnancy, surrogacy, and sterilization.

PUBLIC FACES, SECRET LIVES: A Queer History of the Womens Suffrage Movement, by Wendy L. Rouse. (NYU Press, $27.) Rouse, a historian, highlights the often unrecognized queer history of the womens suffrage movement and argues that queer suffragists challenged traditional notions of family, space and death both subtly and radically.

CALIFORNIA: An American History, by John Mack Faragher. (Yale University, $28.50.) A history of the most ecologically diverse and multicultural state in the country, from the conflict, turmoil and violence of Indigenous dispossession to the resistance of people like Archy Lee and Marilyn Greene.

A FACTOTUM IN THE BOOK TRADE, by Marius Kociejowski. (Biblioasis, paper, $18.95.) In this memoir, the Canadian poet and travel writer recounts his life in the antiquarian book business and his encounters with characters both real and fictional.

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