A portrait through poetry of a trans person’s experience, Kayleb Rae Candrilli’s Water I Won’t Touch runs powerful, emotion-laden language through moments of trauma, tenderness and joy. Candrilli’s accolades—as a 2019 Whiting Award Winner in poetry, a 2017 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in transgender poetry, and many more—are deserved, and this latest 96-page book further reveals their distinct, necessary voice.
Franny Choi explores queerness, femininity, identity and autonomy as an Asian American woman in Soft Science, a book of poems that often center on futurism and technology in a remarkably human manner. While cyborgs feature as a vehicle for otherness, Choi also uses them in many other nuanced ways. Rhythmic and melodic, her poems enthrall readers.
Editor of the print magazine Wm Brown and author of the books A Man & His Watch and A Man & His Car, Matt Hranek returns with The Negroni: A Love Affair with a Classic Cocktail. Comprised of recipes, both classic and reinterpreted, as well as the iconic tale of cocktail’s invention, Hranek’s book is a marvelous ode to one of the world’s most beloved …