Newly Published, From Palestinian Poetry to Stories on Reproductive Freedom

PEEP, by Danielle Blau. (Waywiser, paper, $17.) The winsome, intellectually probing poems in Blau’s debut assortment study lived expertise via the lens of delusion, reminiscence and rigorous philosophical inquiry, with one eye on the moment when, “at this second’s shut, you’ll cross the border / into the second after. … Your shadow’s rising shorter.”

36 VIEWS OF FUJI: Poems, by Kenton Wing Robinson. (Antrim Home, paper, $25.) Robinson’s title evokes Hokusai, and the shape he’s invented evokes haiku: Most of those poems comprise three stanzas of three strains every, with frequent glances at nature. However as an entire they’ve a novelistic sweep, from infantile surprise to a bootleg affair to encroaching dying.

LINE AND LIGHT: Poems, by Jeffrey Yang. (Graywolf, paper, $18.) Yang’s fifth ebook takes the inventive impulse itself as its topic, 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: Chosen Poems, by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat. Translated by Fady Joudah. (Milkweed, paper, $16.) The Palestinian poet’s U.S. debut gathers 20 years of her intimate testimony about personal life in a public battle zone, the place “those that win by killing fewer kids / are losers.”

I KNOW WHAT’S BEST FOR YOU: Tales on Reproductive Freedom, edited by Shelly Oria. (McSweeney’s, paper, $21.99.) On this assortment that spans id and style, writers discover a breadth of experiences involving human copy, together with being pregnant, surrogacy, and sterilization.

PUBLIC FACES, SECRET LIVES: A Queer Historical past of the Girls’s Suffrage Motion, by Wendy L. Rouse. (NYU Press, $27.) Rouse, a historian, highlights the usually unrecognized queer historical past of the ladies’s suffrage motion and argues that queer suffragists challenged conventional notions of household, house and dying each subtly and radically.

CALIFORNIA: An American Historical past, by John Mack Faragher. (Yale College, $28.50.) A historical past of probably the most ecologically various and multicultural state within the nation, from the “battle, turmoil and violence” of Indigenous dispossession to the resistance of individuals like Archy Lee and Marilyn Greene.

A FACTOTUM IN THE BOOK TRADE, by Marius Kociejowski. (Biblioasis, paper, $18.95.) On this memoir, the Canadian poet and journey author recounts his life within the antiquarian ebook enterprise and his encounters with characters each actual and fictional.