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    • Monique Wittig
    • The Lesbian Body
    • Translated by David Le Vay

    • In this genre- and gender-breaking work of theory-fiction, legendary writer and cofounder of the 1970s French feminist movement Monique Wittig celebrates the body—lesbian, literary and defiantly political—and challenges the order of heterosexuality in literature.

    • Monique Wittig
    • Across the Acheron
    • Translated by David Le Vay with Margaret Crosland

    • In her darkly funny 1985 take on Dante’s Divine Comedy, acclaimed French writer and activist Monique Wittig restages the journey through the circles of hell, limbo, and paradise from a lesbian feminist perspective.

    • Nathalie Quintane
    • The Cavalier
    • Translated by Jonathan Larson

    • A Parisian ’68er embarks to the provinces to teach high school Philosophy but is soon driven out for “corrupting the youth.” Fifty years later, and teaching in the same French Alpine town, Nathalie Quintane delves into the scandal to probe the political order and the failures of a utopian generation.

    • Leah Flax Barber
    • The Mirror of Simple Souls

    • In her first book of poems, Leah Flax Barber revives an actress figure of the commedia dell’arte to consider her own destiny as a soon-to-be historical subject. 

    • Sarah Riggs
    • Lines

    • Sarah Riggs’s eighth book of poems pulls from the momentum of Lyn Hejinian’s My Life and Bernadette Mayer’s Memory to create a survival manual for a Trump presidency and a family crisis.

    • Cristina Pérez Díaz
    • From the Founding of the Country

    • Haunted by the violent legacies of colonialism on both landscape and bodies, Cristina Pérez Díaz’s first book of poems deliriously dreams with the foundation of a country from the bed of two lovers.

    • Karla Kelsey
    • Transcendental Factory: For Mina Loy

    • Poet Karla Kelsey’s lyric-documentary rendezvous with iconoclastic writer and visual artist Mina Loy (1882–1966) invents a new form for engaging a life. 

    • Alan Gilbert
    • The Everyday Life of Design

    • Bleak, absurd, elegiac, and politically incisive, Alan Gilbert’s sprawling epic poem is a document of these broken times, with a glint of hope for a better tomorrow.