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In poems datelined Petrograd, Orenburg, Paris, Marseille, the Caribbean, and Mexico, Serge composed elegies for the fallen—as well as prospective elegies for the living who, like him, endured prison, exile, and bitter disappointment in the revolutions of the first half of the twentieth century:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNight falls, the boat pulls in, \u003cbr\u003e\nstop singing. \u003cbr\u003e\nExile relights its captive lamps\u003cbr\u003e\non the shore of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout A Blaze in a Desert, Serge draws on the heritage of late- and post-Symbolist writers like Verhaeren, Rictus, Apollinaire, Blok, and Bely—themselves authors of messages of a more general resistance by the human spirit—to express the anguish of the failure of the Russian Revolution and to search out glimmers of hope in the ruins of the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Blaze in a Desert comprises Victor Serge’s sole published book of poetry, Resistance (1938), his unpublished manuscript Messages (1946), and his last poem, “Hands” (1947).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjE4NTI0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victor-serge\" title=\"Victor Serge\"\u003eVictor Serge\u003c\/a\u003e was a major novelist, a revolutionary, and a historical witness, so it is perhaps not surprising that his poetry has been overlooked. 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Told through a tapestry of narrative poems, dreams, anecdotes, journal entries, and letters, these treasured fragments of their lives show a great love between mother and son. Artist and artist, teacher and friend. Cheryl Boyce-Taylor’s gift includes drawings, emails, hip-hop lyrics, and notes Malik wrote to his parents beginning at age eight. Both elegy and praise song, there is joy and sorrow, healing, and a mother’s triumphant heart that rises and blooms again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A teacher begets a teacher and a poet begets a poet. This book is the embodiment of pure love, grace and hope. Herein, Mama Phife aka Cheryl Boyce-Taylor has given us a gift about her greatest gift, her son Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor. Malik was a great storyteller. To say he got it from his mama is an understatement. He was a treasure to me and Cheryl’s writings and memoirs help to comfort the place that misses him greatly. I thank her for this book and for still teaching us... like her mother before her.” Ali Shaheed Muhammad, A Tribe Called Quest\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I am eternally hopeful that more people in the world come to terms with understanding that for anyone to share an experience of grief is a true generosity. With Mama Phife Represents, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor allows a reader to bask in the generosity. The sharing of loss and grief is the building of a bridge that others who have experienced that specific loss can cross. This is a book about losing a child, yes. But beyond that, it is a book of tactile emotions, and a singularly musical writing, which Boyce-Taylor has always done so well. Above all, Mama Phife Represents shows anyone who has lost someone how to make the most of memory, and the most of their own survival.” Hanif Abdurraqib, author of \u003cem\u003eGo Ahead In The Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“‘All around are unhinged bones \/ wailing at the lip of sea.’ And: ‘I’ve stitched your breath \/ to my throat.’ Such lines carry the loss of the writer's beautiful son out of which emerges this book of love, of joy, of grief, but also of plenty. Through poems, letters, photographs, and other communications, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor has gathered an exquisite record of this Great love between mother and son, artist and artist. Quietly I say to you here: It is like nothing else I have quite read. An elegy, an epic, a duet. A motherhand gathering the lastings. 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Not only does Boyce-Taylor deftly humanize the hip-hop superhero, but she also logs every fragile emotion in both eulogy and celebration: so much so that ‘she will travel to Anguilla\/ beg Yemaya to bring him back.’ The light that the poet finds on this journey is nearly unfathomable, but always redemptive. This collection is a monument, and I am grateful for it.” Michael Cirelli, CEO of Urban Word National Youth Poet Laureate Program\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Mama Phife Represents is at once a memoir and a living archive of one man's extraordinary life and his mother's love and pain in the face of his loss. At a time in the United States when so many black mothers are losing their black children — through illness and violence — this book stands as a testament to the deep, ground-shifting impact of that loss across generations. Honest, Healing, Timely.” Dr. Ana-Maurine Lara, poet, novelist, and scholar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“These poems shred and rebuild. They keen and holler, they are not ashamed. Not afraid. They drill hard to the marrow of suffering and rise up alive. Singing. A mourning song, yes, but a song. It is sometimes “the crude voice of earth’s sorrow,” but it also, and always, unmistakably and unshakably Cheryl’s. The poet, the mother, the wife, the lover, singing into her own, and by extension the world’s survival and renewal and re-blooming. 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Reader, you will find yourself haunted by the question the poet asks himself while he looks past your eyes and into your own depths, What is life without if in it?” Rajiv Mohabir, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Cowherd’s Son\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Taxidermist’s Cut\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Yassin Alsalman possesses one of the most important voices in the world, and Text Messages could not be more timely or more necessary of a read. On paper, this Muslim teacher who raps should not be a success, but because of the beauty of his words and the pureness of his heart, he wins despite the massive odds against him. Narcy makes me feel heard, he gives me life. 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Dear Reader, Dear deer in the headlights, Dear 'people of the on\/ off switch' - Stop, Look, and Listen.\" Fred Wah, author of \u003cem\u003eMusic at the Heart of Thinking\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Where does thinking go? We worry about the island of plastic growing in the Pacific Ocean, but what about the cyclone of thoughts that gather in our collective third eye? In Iron Goddess of Mercy, Larissa Lai is breaking her way through language pileups, hooking syllables onto syntax, looping modernity over history over time. What doesn't hang us we might weave into a haibun, that most magical of forms that allows all the sprawl of prose and all the precision of the haiku. 'What if, in spite of everything forgotten, the whole fabric remains swimming or stitching in fish form?' This is a tale of renewal: in the future we will all need to carry much, much more, and we really need to make light of it.\" Sina Queyras, author of \u003cem\u003eMy Ariel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Iron Goddess of Mercy\u003c\/em\u003e is a work of fierce, mad genius. Composing with equal parts chaos and precise form, Larissa Lai weaves the English language, the love letter and the haibun, historic violence and contemporary geopolitics, pop culture references, unrelenting rage and wicked humour into a polyphonic storm of meaning and emotion, like an ancient sorcerer bending the elements with many arms. With seemingly effortless virtuosity, the author spins us through a kaleidoscopic view of how empire building, occupation and revolution shape the individual and collective soul. No poetry lover, activist, historian or spiritual seeker could possibly fail to fall to their knees before Lai's Iron Goddess. Take heed, readers. These are the words of a master.\" Kai Cheng Thom, author of \u003cem\u003ea place called No Homeland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eIron Goddess of Mercy\u003c\/em\u003e confronts a nightmarish inventory of the costs of human desire and ambition. Yet Lai's 'poethic' vision thrives by a poetry of grand imagination and sonic depth. Hidden scenes of unjust histories are spun out from modern life's random narratives of fanfare toward the stabilizing richness of epiphany. Here is mourning and celebration as Lai deals hard-won blows to the limiting strictness of reason. Here we emerge with better names for common things in their hypnotic globe of urgent transformation.\" Canisia Lubrin, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Dyzgraphxst\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVoodoo Hypothesis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lai allows a tumble of history to seethe through Iron Goddess of Mercy. 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Every journalist should read this book, every doctor, every patient. Gird your heart, though, she’s on a mission to break it with her tongue.\" \u003cbr\u003e—Lulu Miller, co-host of Radiolab and author of Why Fish Don't Exist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dr Seema Yasmin writes so evocatively, patiently, in her debut book of poetry, If God Is A Virus. While reading this book waves of feeling seen ruptured through me multiple times. Yasmin plucks words so precisely that their mere utterance causes a deep, deep recognition. She is also embodying the Golden Age of Islam, where poets were physicians and physicians were poets, using the divine to understand mankind and its art-making, challenging what lies within the psyche, as well as the heart. This book is a revelation, I am grateful for both its lucidity and profundity.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Fariha Róisín Hasan, author of Like A Bird\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I was blown away by this collection. Profound and poignant, it illuminates so much of the grief, outrage, and raw humanity that accompany epidemics, and that manifest within the people who have to deal with them.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Ed Yong, science journalist for The Atlantic, author of I CONTAIN MULTITUDES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In If God Is a Virus, Seema Yasmin approaches describing viruses with an unusual combination of humility and confidence for such a nearly impossible task. She achieves what journalistic and scientific writing often fails to do: to sketch viruses with a sense of wonder. But Dr. Yasmin asks and poetically answers another question: if God is a virus, perhaps we must stop thinking of our relationship with viruses as 'us' and 'them,' and understand that we are viruses, and they are us?\"\u003cbr\u003e—Steven W. Thrasher, PhD, professor and author of The Viral Underclass: How Racism, Ableism and Capitalism Plague Humans on the Margins\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40366304624733,"sku":"9781642594591","price":22.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/IfGodIsaVirus_cover-f_medium-2faa85750a9fb421c399db9af520b7f0.jpg?v=1659470868"},{"product_id":"i-remember-death-by-its-proximity-to-what-i-love","title":"I Remember Death By Its Proximity to What I Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eMahogany L. Browne’s evocative book-length poem explores the impacts of the prison system on both the incarcerated and the loved ones left behind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love is an expansive poetic meditation on who we think is bound by incarceration. The answer: all of us. Weaving personal narrative, case studies, and inventive form, Browne invokes the grief, pain, and resilience in the violent wake of the prison system. This poem is dirge work but allows us to revel in the intricacies of our human condition. Written by a beloved and prolific writer, organizer, and educator, this work serves as a practice of self-reflection and accountability. Browne steps into the lineage of Sonia Sanchez’s Does Your House Have Lions? with the precision of a master wordsmith and the empathy of an attentive storyteller.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I have never read a book quite like, I Remember Death By Its Proximity to What I Love, which explores a daughter’s longing for her father who is often a persistent and haunting spirit. There are endless pathways to read this searingly intelligent collection, full of magical footnotes, journalistic asides, and love notes to readers as it measures abiding love against societal threat, as it weighs personal loss against national gain. I praise Mahogany L. Browne who is a fire starter, a conjurer of essential prayer, and torchbearer who lights the way to justice. Her words are flame, igniting love and its essential truth. This book is an act of supreme invention that wills itself to survive through powerful insistence.”\u003cbr\u003e— Tina Chang, Brooklyn Poet Laureate, author of Hybrida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Because we work so hard to deny our vulnerability—to those we love, to those who love us, and to those whom we know mean us harm—we often find ourselves on edge, hoping no one will see that we’re afraid, that we’re breakable. In this intimate, book-length poetic journey, Mahogany L. Browne carefully examines vulnerability in herself, in her family, and by extension, the fragility of all Black Americans who find themselves living in a nation that often does not love us. It is the raw honesty with which Ms. Browne dissects this painful position that breaks the spell and offers a way out of the psychosis induced by a country that remains unwilling to take on its own history. This book is not an elaborate complaint; it is a crack in the wall of despair.”\u003cbr\u003e—Tim Seibles, Virginia Poet Laureate, author of Hurdy Gurdy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mahogany L. Browne is the geometer and keeper of our sacred realities; Thelonious Monk casually playing a crossroad blues. In this collection of poems, she raises even the heirlooms of the dead; every molecule of a path home. A leap into revolution. Telling our whole lives. Here on paper are the mannerisms of a hurricane; like looking at a poem and seeing that your big sister is God.”\u003cbr\u003e—Tongo Eisen-Martin, San Francisco Poet Laureate, author of Heaven is All Goodbyes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In I Remember Death By Its Proximity to What I Love, Mahogany L. Browne entwines the carceral economy, planetary shifts, border abuses, the pandemic and more through a diversity of syntax and visual cues. Throughout, Browne reflects on and responds to a deeply conflicted time in which all that’s consistent is inconsistency, underscoring how much we need poems like these, and poets like her.”\u003cbr\u003e—Mandana Chaffa, Chicago Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mahogany L. Browne’s I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love reads as a single, continuous poem (though it is divided into parts) that explores the inheritance of grief, the violence of racism and incarceration, and the transportive potential of writing. I read this book as a kind of deconstructed ars poetica, in which the poet, particularly in times of strife or overwhelming intensity, finds a poem ‘waiting to be picked up \/ dusted off.’”\u003cbr\u003e—Megan Fernandes, Harriet Books\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40366311374941,"sku":"9781642595703","price":22.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781642595703-f_medium-a80b0d2ac7bb9889ef7674135443d3af.jpg?v=1659470769"},{"product_id":"fables-and-spells-collected-and-new-short-fiction-and-poetry-1","title":"Fables and Spells: Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVisionary fiction and poetry from bestselling author adrienne maree brown.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFables and Spells\u003c\/em\u003e is a vibrant selection of visionary works, both previously published and brand new. Included here is brown’s most beloved story, “The River,” as well as the two sequel tales of her Water Trio. The remaining sixty-seven pieces explore moments of beauty, conflict, and transformation that also weave deep, radical lessons. 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This should be required reading for anyone looking for Black feminist speculative literature.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, starred review\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNjkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/adrienne-maree-brown\" title=\"adrienne maree brown\"\u003eadrienne maree brown\u003c\/a\u003e is a force of nature, a stream of wisdom, and an oracle for our times. Luminous creativity permeates this work. While acknowledging the deep despair the world grapples with, adrienne maree brown reminds us that all of nature is adaptive and that witching is, and always has been, the way to alchemize the complexities we are confronted with. These spells are cast with our wellness centered and our humanity uplifted.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChani Nicholas, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYou Were Born For This\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFables and Spells\u003c\/em\u003e is potent ancestral cartography. It is a deep well of truths, musings, maps, medicine, and healing extended from adrienne’s ancestral throughline connecting to our own, amplifying the ways we engage in witching for love, liberation, and change.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOmisade Burney-Scott, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBlack Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"I felt such a deep connection to myself and my community while reading \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFables and Spells\u003c\/em\u003e. It gave me permission to feel like I knew it all and also nothing ... like I'm tapped into an energy so rich and abundant but also so depleted and tired. 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Full of both urgency and a sense of deep time, this is a book for our altars and our go bags in a world on fire, one you will return to again and again, the pages stained with potion and candlewax.” \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDori Midnight, community care practitioner\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eadrienne maree brown\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEmergent Strategy\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e best-selling \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/pleasure-activism-the-politics-of-feeling-good\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePleasure Activism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/we-will-not-cancel-us-and-other-dreams-of-transformative-justice\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe Will Not Cancel Us\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/holding-change-the-way-of-emergent-strategy-facilitation-and-mediation\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHolding Change\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/grievers\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGrievers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e. brown grows transformative ideas in public through her writing and art; she is a poet changing the world. 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Its essays explore the liberatory potential of consent and autonomy in relationships among children, youth, and the adults in their lives. They also trace how oppressive attitudes toward children, far from being “natural” forms of kinship with the youngest members of our families and communities, have identifiable social and historical roots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eListen to a collaboration with the Time Talks podcast \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/timetalks.libsyn.com\/trust-kids-mixtape-ft-grouded-futures\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Trust Kids! is wild and playful and challenging and engaging. Like those playground conversations with other parents. Like stories children tell around kitchen tables. 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What does abolition entail and how can we get there as a collective and improvisational project?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eTo posit the spirituality of abolition is to consider the ways historical and contemporary movements against slavery; prisons; the wage system; animal and earth exploitation; racialized, gendered, and sexualized violence; and the death penalty necessitate epistemologies that have been foreclosed through violent force by Western philosophical and theological thought. It is also to claim that the material conditions that will produce abolition are necessarily Black, Indigenous, queer and trans, feminist, and also about disabled and other non-conforming bodies in force and verve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSpirituality\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbolition \u003c\/em\u003easks: What can prison abolition teach us about spiritual practice, spiritual journey, spiritual commitment? And, what can these things underscore about the struggle for abolition as a desired manifestation of material change in the worlds we currently inhabit? Collecting writings, poetry, and art from thinkers, organizers, and incarcerated people, the editors trace the importance of faith and spirit in our ongoing struggle towards abolitionist horizons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAbolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics \u003c\/em\u003eis a collectively-run project supporting radical scholarly and activist ideas, poetry, and art, publishing and disseminating work that encourages us to make the impossible possible, to seek transformation well beyond policy changes and toward revolutionary abolitionism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Spirituality and Abolition is an invaluable collective contribution to thinking abolitionist theology and spiritual praxis, an open invitation to an abolitionist struggle being waged in the earthly and also the immaterial and spiritual realm, demystifying the ways in which colonialism and anti-Blackness shape carceral religiosity and also calling forth and evoking liberationist models of spirituality. Activists, spiritual workers, clergy, and academics in religious and Black and Indigenous and feminist, queer and trans studies as well will greatly benefit from this indispensable anthology.” Che Gosset, Racial Justice Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia Law School and Visiting Fellow, Animal Law and Policy Center, Harvard Law School\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“This brilliant and absorbing collection of rigorous research articles, thoughtful political interventions, and innovative artworks is immensely important to the work of committed scholars, activists and organizers. There is much that teaches, fortifies, motivates and mobilizes here.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjYifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/sinews-of-war-and-trade-shipping-and-capitalism-in-the-arabian-peninsula\" title=\"Laleh Khalili\"\u003eLaleh Khalili\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eSinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eTime in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eMaking Abolitionist Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e is an urgent reminder that theorizing and practicing abolition must take place across prison walls and the boundaries imposed by the colonial state, heteropatriarchy, settler colonialism, white supremacy, and capitalism. Finally, here is a journal providing a platform capacious enough to embrace the insurgent knowledge of activists, the analytical rigor of scholars, and the visionary power of artists.\"\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNzIifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/jackie-wang\" title=\"Jackie Wang\"\u003eJackie Wang\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNzMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/carceral-capitalism\" title=\"Carceral Capitalism\"\u003eCarceral Capitalism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e“As the world we know is shattering more rapidly than we might have ever imagined, comes \u003cem\u003eMaking Abolitionist Worlds, \u003c\/em\u003ean urgent call to build the new. These pieces movingly remind us that liberation will not transpire solely through opposition; it demands radical inquiry, imagination, creation. This collection brilliantly illustrates a core truth: we don't need ‘alternatives to incarceration,’ we need a wildly recreated society in which incarceration is unthinkable. \u003cem\u003eMaking Abolitionist Words \u003c\/em\u003ewill nourish and fuel struggles for transformation.” Maya Schenwar, author of \u003cem\u003eLocked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better \u003c\/em\u003eand coauthor with \u003ca title=\"Victoria Law\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e of \u003cem\u003ePrison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eMaking Abolitionist Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e is a rich and compelling mixed-genre collection of radical perspectives that makes an urgent contribution to abolitionist world-making. Inspiring and incisive, these political interventions advance collective and transformative revolutionary praxis—what we need, now more than ever. On fire, indeed!\" J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, author of \u003cem\u003eHawaiian Blood \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty\u003c\/em\u003e and editor of \u003cem\u003eSpeaking of Indigenous Politics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003ca title=\"Abolishing Carceral Society\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/abolishing-carceral-society-abolition-a-journal-of-insurgent-politics\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjkifQ==\"\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e is an immense contribution to contemporary struggles for freedom. The pieces in this collection provoke new questions that inform resistance strategies, and deepen our understandings of the systems we are seeking to abolish and the social relations we are working to transform. This collection will be a profoundly useful tool in classrooms and activist groups. The conversation happening in Abolition is essential reading for those participating in the thorny, complex debates about how we dismantle structures of state violence and domination. The writers and artists whose work makes up the inaugural issue of Abolition, rigorously explore the most pressing questions emerging in liberation struggles.\" \u003ca title=\"Dean Spade\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dean-spade\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzMifQ==\"\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eNormal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Abolishing Carceral Society \u003c\/em\u003eis a wonderful mix of provocative ideas married with art, to help us consider a world without prisons, policing, and surveillance. Many of the submissions, however, are less concerned with dismantling what exists than they are with taking seriously that abolition is a project interested in building and in practical organizing. This comes through particularly in David Turner's essay, among others. Abolishing Carceral Society asks us some questions that we sometimes prefer to ignore, like ‘What does it mean to transform human relations?’ This inaugural issue from Abolition pushes us to ask a number of questions that are important to moving us toward an abolitionist horizon.\" \u003ca title=\"Mariame Kaba\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mariame-kaba\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjgifQ==\"\u003eMariame Kaba\u003c\/a\u003e, founder of Project NIA, and cofounder of Chicago Freedom School, Chicago Taskforce on Violence Against Girls \u0026amp; Young Women, and Love \u0026amp; Protect\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\"Abolition is a crucial contribution to radical social movements. While fighting against prisons and the death penalty as instruments of class rule, the journal amplifies the voices of the incarcerated, actively engages with organizers on the ground, and builds bridges across multiple movements. The first issue, \u003cem\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/em\u003e, presents incisive interventions in the current debates about prison abolition and abolitionism as a political principle. It is a bold beginning for what will become an essential forum for all insurgent thinkers.\" \u003ca title=\"Silvia Federici\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eRevolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and the Feminist Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCaliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\"From slavery to prisons, abolition has always been a project of courage and breadth. \u003cem\u003eAbolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/em\u003e brings to bear the reflective, transformative urgency needed to confront today's violent world order. Of the struggle, by the struggle, and for the struggle: this auspicious collection offers not answers but pathways down which contemporary abolitionists travel en route to a future freedom. Check out their words, scope their visions—heed their calls.\" \u003ca title=\"Dan Berger\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eCaptive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Abolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/em\u003e continues the radical, democratic tradition started by abolitionists to speak truth to power. In these dismal political times, it is a matter of the greatest urgency to create and sustain a counter-public sphere and an alternative print culture to sustain and expand American democracy.  This remarkable and inspiring advocacy journal is poised to do precisely that for democratic activists as well as the broader lay public.\" Manisha Sinha, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\"The \u003cem\u003eAbolition\u003c\/em\u003e Collective embodies the kind of work anybody interested in justice should aspire to reproduce. Astute, rigorous, and uncompromising, the collective seeks to bring radical perspectives to a wide readership within and beyond academe. With the publication of its inaugural issue we are treated to the very best of revolutionary analysis.  Anybody interested in upending a carceral and colonial order will find plenty of inspiration here. Something we all need and do well to pass along.\" Steven Salaita, author of \u003cem\u003eInter\/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\"The \u003cem\u003eAbolition\u003c\/em\u003e Journal project offers a unique, revolutionary lens through which to view, analyze and fight against capitalism and patriarchy on the terrain of the prison-industrial complex. It aims to combine an abolitionist message with a democratic production process that prioritizes participation of those directly affected by incarceration. What a welcome and needed approach! I am confident the project will help intellectuals build ties of solidarity across race, class, gender, nationality, and other borders that block liberation and in its finest moments will help teach us, as Mumia says, to ‘fight with light in our eyes.\" James Kilgore, author of \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Abolishing Carceral Society\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold journal mapping new roads out of the inferno in which we live. As the editors’ Manifesto tells us, ‘abolition’ is a key strategy out of our carceral, slave-like society—the prison being the pivotal place for the perpetuation of an unjust political system. But the journal also sheds light on the many ways in which we’re imprisoned beyond the prison’s walls. With scholarly articles, poems and artwork, in a beautifully designed text, it asks us to open our eyes and support a liberation struggle against jails and jailers.\" George Caffentzis, author of \u003cem\u003eIn Letters of Blood and Fire: Work, Machines, and the Crisis of Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eNo Blood For Oil: Essays on Energy, Class Struggle and War, 1998–2017\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40854205726813,"sku":"9781942173724","price":30.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781942173724_FC_Spirituality_and_Abolition.jpg?v=1673024398"},{"product_id":"queer-little-nightmares-an-anthology-of-monstrous-fiction-and-poetry","title":"Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe fiction and poetry of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eQueer Little Nightmares\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popular culture as stand-ins for the non-conforming, the marginalized of society. Pushed into the shadows as objects of fear, revulsion, and hostility, these characters have long conjured fascination and self-identification in the LGBTQ+ community, and over time, monsters have become queer icons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"address-49fffee468493025b85ca244bd55e9ac-c08b171081fcd8b12f0f59b1253133ee\" dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eQueer Little Nightmares\u003c\/i\u003e, creatures of myth and folklore seek belonging and intimate connection, cryptids challenge their outcast status, and classic movie monsters explore the experience of coming into queerness. The characters in these stories and poems - the Minotaur camouflaged in a crowd of cosplayers, a pubescent werewolf, a Hindu revenant waiting to reunite with her lover, a tender-hearted kaiju, a lagoon creature aching for the swimmers above him, a ghost of Pride past - relish their new sparkle in the spotlight. Pushing against tropes that have historically been used to demonize, the queer creators of this collection instead ask: What does it mean to be (and to love) a monster?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eContributors include Amber Dawn, David Demchuk, Hiromi Goto, jaye simpson, Eddy Boudel Tan, Matthew J. Trafford, and Kai Cheng Thom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"address-49fffee468493025b85ca244bd55e9ac-e180dd6458e7c1893b230c5fdb381774\" dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"address-49fffee468493025b85ca244bd55e9ac-6ef729a752be6e7ac4693048bb6eff40\" dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"western\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cblockquote style=\"margin-left: 0cm; background: transparent; page-break-before: auto;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin-left: 0cm; background: transparent; page-break-before: auto;\"\u003e“Spooky, clever, and evocative, the wonderfully diverse voices on display in \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eQueer Little Nightmares\u003c\/i\u003e reveal the 'monster' inside us all, and how those monsters are exactly what make us human.” Mike Van Waes, screenwriter of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDear David\u003c\/i\u003e and author of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePeeves\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote style=\"margin-left: 0cm; background: transparent;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin-left: 0cm; background: transparent;\"\u003e“\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eQueer Little Nightmares\u003c\/i\u003e is a marvelous, must-read monstrous romp. Like the best haunted house rides, which never repeat the same scare twice, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eQueer Little Nightmares\u003c\/i\u003e thrills and surprises at every turn. The works gathered here are distinct in the histories they reclaim and renew, imaginative in the visions they construct and share, and manifold in the ways they move us as readers - whether it be with joy, anguish, humour, horror, intrigue, irreverence, or some chimeric combo of all these and more. If this groundbreaking anthology doesn't make your skin tingle, your mind pulse, and your heart expand, you may already be dead!” Daniel Scott Tysdal, author of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe End Is in the Middle: Mad Fold-In Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote style=\"margin-left: 0cm; background: transparent;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin-left: 0cm; background: transparent;\"\u003e“These queer little nightmares kept me up all night, because I could not put them down. Energizing, thrilling, poetic and gorgeous, this anthology sparks and it singed me to my emotional core. I'm not scared of how deeply I fell in love with every monster and creature, every story and poem. I want to horror-heroine scream from the rooftops that everyone should read this book. Embrace your inner monster with this impeccable collection of stories and poems that will haunt and heal.” Dina Del Bucchia, author of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDon't Tell Me What to Do\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote style=\"margin-left: 0cm; background: transparent;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin-left: 0cm; background: transparent;\"\u003e“Editors David Ly and Daniel Zomparelli have created a wondrous space for writers to explore monstrous impulses in poetry and prose. \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eQueer Little Nightmares\u003c\/i\u003e is a fantastical examination of where we are at this moment in time and a celebration of who we may become if we embrace our shadow selves with love. You might say that this thrilling anthology is the beautiful dark twisted fantasy of our time.” Doretta Lau, author of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote style=\"margin-left: 0cm; background: transparent;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin-left: 0cm; background: transparent;\"\u003e“This anthology features monsters both old and new reimagined through a queer lens, celebrating the ideas and identities so often stigmatized and feared in monster literature. 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