The Men: A Lyric Book

8 best books like The Men: A Lyric Book (Lisa Robertson): Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, Lost Children Archive, I Love Dick, Oval, A Sand Book, The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, Calamities, Grey is the Color of Hope

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
AuthorAndrea Lawlor
ISBN0986086991
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul’s also got a secret: he’s a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from...
Lost Children Archive
AuthorValeria Luiselli
ISBN0525520619
From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.

A...
I Love Dick
AuthorChris Kraus
ISBN1584350342
In I Love Dick, Chris Kraus, author of Aliens & Anorexia, Torpor, and Video Green, boldly tears away the veil that separates fiction from reality and privacy from self-expression. It's no wonder that upon its publication in 1997, I Love Dick instantly elicited violent controversies and attracted...
Oval
AuthorElvia Wilk
ISBN1593764057
In the near future, Berlin’s real estate is being flipped in the name of “sustainability,” only to make the city even more unaffordable; artists are employed by corporations as consultants; and the weather is acting strange. In search of affordable housing, young couple Anja and Louis move...
A Sand Book
AuthorAriana Reines
ISBN0986437360
A Sand Book is a poetry collection in nine parts, a travel guide that migrates from wildfires to hurricanes, tweety bird to the president, lust to aridity, desertification to prophecy, and mother to daughter. It explores the negative space of what is happening to language and to consciousness...
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
AuthorLeslie Jamison
ISBN0316259616
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams, an exploration of addiction, and the stories we tell about it, that reinvents the traditional recovery memoir.

With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and journalistic reportage,...
AuthorRenee Gladman
ISBN1940696275
"Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer—she writes that way and the dreaming seems to construct the architecture of the world unfolding before our reading eyes." —Eileen Myles

A collection of linked essays concerned with the life and mind of the writer by one of the most original...
Grey is the Color of Hope
AuthorIrina Ratushinskaya
ISBN0679724478
The relationship between the Russian language and the English language is one of the most compelling proofs that the universe has a sense of humor (and horror). That, democracy, and snuggies. Grey is the Color of Hope is tragic and compelling enough as a story that saying I didn't like it would be like...
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