Black Lawrence Press
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Worth Burning
$17.95 Add to cartA searing portrait of survival, Worth Burning traces a boy’s journey from a turbulent Southern childhood–marked by parental abuse, death, and hidden queerness–through the AIDS crisis, a marriage of … [more below]
- Author: Kennedy, Mickie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 162557181X
- Language: English
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Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
$25.95 Add to cartStylish, smart, and big-hearted, Cyan Magenta Yellow Black lovingly summons the Minneapolis Saint Paul of December of 1993, just before the internet changed everything. It’s a place where friendships … [more below]
- Author: Fenton, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1625571968
- Language: English
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Esquire Ball, Stories from the Great Black Swamp
$17.95 Add to cartWith a nod to Borges, Kafka, and Daphne du Maurier, Esquire Ball, Stories from the Great Black Swamp is a Midwestern gothic collection of thirteen linked stories in which a young female attorney disco… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Lisa Slage
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1625571801
- Language: English
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Talking with Boys
$17.95 Add to cartIn a collection of linked tales filled with irony, humor, and magic, Talking with Boys introduces an unforgettable cast of characters in the Pakistani diaspora in Houston navigating crises of their ow… [more below]
- Series: Immigrant Writing
- Author: Kanwal, Tayyba
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1625571798
- Language: English
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Python with a Dog Inside It
$19.95 Add to cartSet on the marshlands of working-class southern New Jersey, Python with a Dog Inside It, the debut collection by poet Max McDonough, traces the tangled story of two gay brothers as they endeavor to su… [more below]
- Author: McDonough, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1625571755
- Language: English
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Writing as a Way of Life: A Book about Art, Craft, and Devotion
$25.95 Add to cartIn Writing as a Way of Life: A Book About Art, Craft, and Devotion, novelist and memoirist Brian Morton (Starting Out in the Evening) provides writers with a guidebook for finding the psychic equipmen… [more below]
- Author: Morton, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1625571771
- Language: English
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Ghetto Koans: A Personal Archive
$19.95 Add to cartThe Japanese word ‘ koan’ is a seemingly unanswerable riddle used by practitioners of Zen Buddhism to trigger spiritual enlightenment and understanding. Ghetto Koans: A Personal Archive is a vibrant, … [more below]
- Author: Cagney, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1625571623
- Language: English
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Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone
$16.95 Add to cart“A combination of the mystical, magical, and marvelous, Sequoia Nagamatsu weaves a collection of bold, hysterical, and moving tales into an unforgettable debut. From shape-shifters, to star-makers, to
- Author: Nagamatsu, Sequoia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 1625579446
- Language: English
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The Stone Sister
$25.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2020 Big Moose Prize
Spanning the mid to late 20th century and set in the Elkhorn Valley of southwestern Montana, The Stone Sister is told from three points of view – a father’s, a nurse’
- Author: Patterson, Caroline E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1625570244
- Language: English
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Here in the Night
$21.95 Add to cartThe thirteen stories in Rebecca Turkewitz’s debut collection, Here in the Night, are engrossing, strange, eerie, and emotionally nuanced.
With psychological insight and finely crafted prose, HERE IN TH
- Author: Turkewitz, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: July 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1625570570
- Language: English
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Hood Vacations
$16.95 Add to cartMichal ” MJ” Jones’ debut Hood Vacations is a rhythmic & quiet rumbling – an unflinching recollection of Blackness, queerness, gender, and violence through lenses of family lineage and confessional na… [more below]
- Author: Jones, Michal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: January 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1625570449
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the Midwest
$21.95 Add to cartA Brief History of the Midwest is a lyric encapsulation of the hardship and hope of the American Midwest.
- Author: Grace, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1625571585
- Language: English
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Dyke (Geology)
$9.95 Add to cartThrough intertwined threads of autofiction, lyric science writing, and the tale of a newly queer Hawaiian volcano, Sabrina Imbler delivers a coming out story on a geological time scale. This is a smal… [more below]
- Author: Imbler, Sabrina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 30
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1625577168
- Language: English
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Sidework
$21.95 Add to cartSasha Hom’s Sidework is a lyric, page-turning novella about a homeless Korean adoptee and mother of four. During her busy Sunday shift waiting tables, her customers–rock stars, locals, and the Grim R… [more below]
- Author: Hom, Sasha Wol-Soon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1625571569
- Language: English
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Birth Center in Corporate Woods
$19.95 Add to cartThe poems in BJ Soloy’s Birth Center in Corporate Woods use long, contorting lines and elliptical connections to wade through the collisions of love, eros, loss, irony, pop culture, and late capitalis… [more below]
- Author: Soloy, Bj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1625571550
- Language: English
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Caulbearer
$17.95 Add to cartIn many cultures, a caul is considered talismanic; and a child born with it, possessing luck or protection. Luisa A. Igloria invokes this metaphor to weave poems exploring the veiled intervals of tran… [more below]
- Author: Igloria, Luisa A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1625570783
- Language: English
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The Maps They Gave Us: One Marriage Reimagined
$27.95 Add to cartWelcome to Will and Grace with kids, cats, and a mortgage.
In a memoir that celebrates the creative possibilities of intimate relationships, writer and psychotherapist Wayne Scott’s The Maps They Gav- Author: Scott, Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1625571542
- Language: English
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S Is for
$19.95 Add to cartS is For is an investigation by poet William Archila of the Central American migrant crisis haunted by the past of the civil war in El Salvador, the meanings of family spirits, and trees disappearing … [more below]
- Author: Archila, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1625571747
- Language: English
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Mother/Land
$17.95 Add to cartMother/land, winner of the 2020 Hudson Prize, is focused on the intersection of motherhood and immigration and its effects on a speaker’s relationship to place, others and self. It investigates the mu
- Author: Lima, Ananda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: October 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1625570260
- Language: English
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American Gospel
$25.95 Add to cartA low-income Baltimore neighborhood is targeted for a controversial urban renewal project–an amusement park in the theme of Baltimore itself–that forces its residents to reckon with racism, displace… [more below]
- Author: Jeffra, Miah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1625570430
- Language: English
