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“Sheila O'Connor has written a novel that is as bold, non-compliant, and exceptional as its protagonist. Evidence of V is both a novel and an ontological question, as in, is it possible to know (truly know) who and where we come from, and if not, what stories will we invent to fill that void?”—Nami Mun on Sheila O'Conner's Evidence of V (Rose Metal Press) #SPDhandpicked 20% off w/ code HANDPICKED

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#SPDHANDPICKED on THE UNEXPECTED - VERONICA: A SUITE IN X PARTS by Erica Hunt (selva oscura press) is a tale of every Veronica, every femme trying to live despite the chronicle of a death foretold and the gratuitous violence of everyday life. It is a beautiful movement, a lamentation, a chorale, an algorithm, and V and X of it attending to an rewriting the mathematics of black social life.

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Fuel and Fire:Selected Poems 1956–1976 by Francisco Urondo, trans. J. Leverone (Lavender Ink / Diálogos) places blame on an ignorant public, but hope in the hands of individuals who can give themselves over to love." #SPDhandpicked

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#SPDHANDPICKED on CRAFT - Me & Other Writing by Marguerite Duras trans. Olivia Baes & Emma Ramadan (Dorothy, a publishing project) is a demonstration of her endless curiosity, voracious intellect and well-honed craft. Within a single essay she might roam from Flaubert to the "scattering of desire" to the Holocaust; within the body of her essays overall, style is always evolving, subject matter shifting, as her mind pushes beyond the obvious toward ever-original ground

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#SPDHANDPICKED on SHARPNESS: I'm Alive. It Hurts. I Love it by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (Big Lucks) is a painful and personal book, brimming with darkness and hope, artfully balancing how difficult being alive can be - the feeling of everything, all at once, crumbling - but also why we all keep doing it.I'M ALIVE. IT HURTS. I LOVE IT. is softness that saves us.

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SEPTEMBER'S #SPDHANDPICKED is on SHARPNESS - what cuts through the pain of life, without negating the difficulty of survival? What happens when you open something up and confront yourself with the offal of our lives? What happens when you leave yourself exposed? If we're lucky, something like love.

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feat. Fuel and Fire: Selected Poems 1956-1976 by Francisco Urondo, trans. Julia Leverone (Lavender Ink / Diálogos)

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#SPDHANDPICKED on UNDERCURRENT - Laura Hershey: On the Life and Work of an American Master, ed. Meg Day & Nikki Herd (Pleiades Press) features the poems of Laura Hershey,a vital, brilliant, and until now lesser-known American poet who, during her short life, was a major invigorating force in the movements for disability rights, queer poetries, and activist poetics. These poems speak from the margins with the force of truth-eloquently, ferociously, and beautifully.

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“This is a book holding spectacular spells, songs, and instructions for freedom.”—Terrance Hayes on t'ai freedom ford's & more black (Augury Books) #SPDhandpicked

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