Nightboat Books

  • Aerial Concave Without Cloud

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    Aerial Concave Without Cloud is a collection of poetry steeped in the bluest apocalypse light of solar collapse and the pale, ghostly light of personal devastation and grief. Through a combination of … [more below]

    • Author: Lee, Sueyeun Juliette
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: March 22 2022
    • ISBN10: 1643621165
    • Language: English
  • Tree Spirits Grass Spirits

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    A collected series of intertwined poetic essays written by acclaimed Japanese poet Hiromi Ito–part nature writing, part travelogue, part existential philosophy.

    Written between April 2012 and Novembe

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    • Author: Ito, Hiromi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: October 03 2023
    • ISBN10: 1643621920
    • Language: English
  • Togetherness

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    WINNER of the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature

    Finalist for the Firecracker Award for Poetry!

    A debut poetry collection in which non-binary poet and drag performer

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    • Author: Chan, Wo
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: September 20 2022
    • ISBN10: 1643621440
    • Language: English
  • Shifting the Silence

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    Shifting the Silence does just that, breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. In short unrelenting paragraphs, Adnan enumerates her personal struggle to conceptualize … [more below]

    • Author: Adnan, Etel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: October 27 2020
    • ISBN10: 1643620304
    • Language: English
  • Sex Goblin

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    A weird, wild ride across non-narrative vignettes and dryly funny aphorisms exploring the shared intensity of violence and the erotic.

    As if hauled up squirming from the bowels of the internet, Sex G

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    • Author: Cook, Lauren
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 184
    • Publish Date: May 28 2024
    • ISBN10: 1643622331
    • Language: English
  • Instructions for the Lovers

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    A taught, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life.

    “Dawn Lundy Martin’s poems read like a real-time excavation of what poetry c

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    • Author: Martin, Dawn Lundy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: June 25 2024
    • ISBN10: 1643622315
    • Language: English
  • Surge

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    A new volume of aphoristic prose and philosophical poetry from Etel Adnan, whose work The New York Times recently described as the “meditative heir to Nietzsche’s aphorisms, Rilke’s Book of Hours and … [more below]

    • Author: Adnan, Etel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 56
    • Publish Date: August 22 2018
    • ISBN10: 1937658856
    • Language: English
  • The Beauty of Light: An Interview

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    A lively and spontaneous interview with Etel Adnan about her absolute belief in the beauty of the world and the beauty of art.

    In these interviews with journalist and editor Laure Adler, conducted in … [more below]

    • Author: Adnan, Etel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: March 19 2024
    • ISBN10: 1643622110
    • Language: English
  • Poem Bitten by a Man

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    Finalist for the 2024 Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry


    Collaged from journals and notebooks kept during a period of chronic illness, economic precarity, and heartbreak, Poem Bitten By[more below]

    • Author: Teare, Brian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 108
    • Publish Date: September 26 2023
    • ISBN10: 1643622102
    • Language: English
  • We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics

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    2021 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST

    Finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature

    Editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel offer We Want it All: An Anthology of Ra

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    • Author: Abi-Karam, Andrea
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 480
    • Publish Date: November 24 2020
    • ISBN10: 1643620339
    • Language: English
  • Prescribee

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    An arch, precise collection of poems that casts world-historical hierarchies in an aspic mold and serves them back to us on a warped platter.

    Reading Prescribee is not dissimilar to the experience of c… [more below]

    • Author: Chang, Chia-Lun
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: November 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 1643621513
    • Language: English
  • The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven

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    A timely reissue, the typographical experiments of The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven make visible the hidden experience of chronic pain and illness. During uninsured and ineffectual medicaliza

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    • Author: Teare, Brian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 106
    • Publish Date: November 01 2022
    • ISBN10: 1643621599
    • Language: English
  • Stemmy Things

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    FINALIST for the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature

    A kaleidoscopic debut collection of poems performing queer excess and lyric ecstasy.

    This flirty collection trace

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    • Author: Smith, Imogen Xtian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: October 18 2022
    • ISBN10: 1643621505
    • Language: English
  • Watchnight

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    In WATCHNIGHT, we accompany Johnson’s unnamed protagonist on a psychedelic quest across myriad forms, places, and times marked by climate crisis, exodus, and Black trans identity-making.

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    • Author: Johnson, Cyree Jarelle
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: April 09 2024
    • ISBN10: 1643621947
    • Language: English
  • Desgraciado: (The Collected Letters)

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    A collection of epistolary poems that exorcises and explores the material violence and generational trauma of colonization and systemic racism stored within queer Latinx memory.

    Includes a Foreword fr

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    • Author: Dominguez, Angel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 120
    • Publish Date: February 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 1643621149
    • Language: English
  • Cruel/Cruel

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    A response to the unimaginable cruelties that became our new quotidian in 2020, that moves musically and discursively through innovative permutations of lyric form.

    CRUEL/CRUEL is the manifestation of … [more below]

    • Author: J. Stephens, Dior
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: March 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 1643621580
    • Language: English
  • Notes from the Passenger

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    Sonically vivid, as empire and climate fall into catastrophe, these poems open portals where the living and the dead find one another in new communication.

    From Shelley Memorial Award Winner Gillian Co

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    • Author: Conoley, Gillian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: May 02 2023
    • ISBN10: 1643621726
    • Language: English
  • Nice: Collected Poems

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    Collected for the first time, four landmark works of queer experimental poetry by reclusive cult poet David Melnick, known for his prowess with invented language and sound poetry.


    David Melnick’s Nice:

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    • Author: Melnick, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: December 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 1643621572
    • Language: English
  • One Impossible Step: Selected Poems

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    A selection of extraordinarily condensed, emotionally complex, philosophical poems by one of the most unique and highly regarded 20th century Brazilian poets.


    In her lifetime, Orides Fontela resisted a

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    • Author: Fontela, Orides
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: November 21 2023
    • ISBN10: 1643621556
    • Language: English
  • Misssettl

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    Winner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry

    Sonically vibrant, polyphonic, typographic experimentation gleefully strategizes resistance and life under white supremacist capitalism i

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    • Author: Hilliard, Kamden Ishmael
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: June 14 2022
    • ISBN10: 1643621408
    • Language: English
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