Syncope
By: Asiya Wadud
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Poetry. Through a series of prayers, invocations, and hymns, SYNCOPE eulogizes those who have peris…
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Format: 84 pages,
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2. The Queer Art of Failure
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4.00
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5. Alphabet
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9. The Performance of Becoming Human
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4.14
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"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
11. Ring Shout
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"Who says all the fantasies with sword-wielding heroes and heroines have to be in Middle Earth, Westeros, or even our dreams of Africa past—“copper sun or scarlet sea?"-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout
"There were two brothers, Truth and Lie. One day they get to playing, throwing cutlasses up into the air. Them cutlasses come down and fast as can be-swish!-chop each of their faces clean off! Truth b…"-P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout
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"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
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14. From From: Poems
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4.18
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15. The English Understand Wool
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4.10
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3.76
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"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"-Maggie Millner, Couplets
17. Postcolonial Love Poem
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4.33
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20. Syncope
By: Asiya Wadud
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Poetry. Through a series of prayers, invocations, and hymns, SYNCOPE eulogizes those who have peris… read more
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21. The Dyzgraphxst
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