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10 best books like Walking with Ghosts: Poems (Qwo-Li Driskill): Wanting in Arabic, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, Seasonal Velocities, Scars Tell Stories: A Queer and Trans (Dis)ability Zine, Not Vanishing, A Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales, Love Cake, Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology, Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability, My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities

Wanting in Arabic
AuthorTrish Salah
ISBN1894770005
Poetry. Braiding theoretic concerns with the ambivalences of sexed and raced identity.WANTING IN ARABIC attempts to traverse the fantasies of foundational loss and aggressive nostalgia in order to further a poetics of a conscious partiality of being, of generous struggle and comic rather than...
Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics
AuthorT.C. Tolbert
ISBN1937658104
The first of its kind, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics gathers together a diverse range of 55 poets with varying aesthetics and backgrounds. In addition to generous samples of poetry by each trans writer, the book also includes “poetics statements”—reflections...
Seasonal Velocities
AuthorRyka Aoki
ISBN0985110503
Seasonal Velocities is like an intimate collage of Ryka Aoki's brain. It's made up of poems, memoir, essays, speeches, performance art, and when you step back from the individual pieces, it makes up the mind of one thoughtful and creative human being. Aoki is a survivor of many injustices, but her work...
Scars Tell Stories: A Queer and Trans (Dis)ability Zine
AuthorColin Kennedy Donovan
Through poetry, art, and essays, this zine tells our stories—funny, sexy, and complex—as a radical act of resistance, and prioritizes the work of trans people and people of color working for radical social change.

Featuring artwork, poetry, and essays by Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Sarain...
Not Vanishing
AuthorChrystos
ISBN0889740151
essentially the english language fails me sometimes when i want to capture the depth of importance of experience, and i can't find words for what i want to say here about gratitude and reverence. this collection is full of love and strength and rage that all are incredibly deep and powerful. her form is...
A Map to the Next World: Poems and Tales
AuthorJoy Harjo
ISBN0393320960
between 4 - 4.5 stars. a vulnerable and haunting collection.

"There was a massacre in El Salvador. The soldiers had gathered all the men and boys in the church at the center of town and killed them. Then the women and the girls were taken to the fields and raped and killed. One particularly beautiful...
Love Cake
AuthorLeah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
ISBN1894770692
Poetry. LGBT Studies. Asian American Studies. In these poems, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores how queer people of color resist and transform violence through love and desire. Remembering and testifying about the damage caused by the racial profiling of South Asian and Arab people post...
Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology
AuthorAmy Sonnie
ISBN1555835589
Invisible. Unheard. Alone. Chilling words, but apt to describe the isolation and alienation of queer youth. In silence and fear they move from childhood memories of intolerance or violence to the unknown, unmentored landscape of queer adulthood, their voices stilled or ignored. No longer. Revolutionary...
Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
AuthorRobert McRuer
ISBN0814757138
Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze...
My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities
AuthorYantra Bertelli
ISBN1604861096
The stories in this collection provide parents of special needs kids with a dose of both laughter and reality. Featuring works by so-called alternative parents who have attempted to move away from mainstream thought, this anthology carefully considers the implications of raising children with...
Kissing God Goodbye: Poems 1991-1997
AuthorJune Jordan
ISBN0385490321
With the same pithy but eloquent observations characteristic of Jordan's classic poetry collections, Things that I Do in the Dark and Living Room, and her notable essay collections, Civil Wars and Technical Difficulties, Kissing God Goodbye will strike a universal chord as it witnesses the pain,...
Welcome Song for Baby
AuthorRichard Van Camp
ISBN1551436612
Review: Welcome Song for Baby

VanCamp, R. (2007). Welcome Song for Baby; A lullaby for newborns. Victoria, B.C., Canada:
Orca Book Publishers.

Why the book was chosen
The book Welcome Song for Baby is beautiful on the outside. The book features a picture
of a newborn...
Breaking Poems
AuthorSuheir Hammad
ISBN0981913121
Poetry. In BREAKING POEMS Suheir Hammad departs from her previous poetry books with a bold and explosive style to do what the best poets have always done: create a new language. Using "break" as a trigger for every poem, Hammad destructs, constructs, and reconstructs the English language for us to hear...
Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry
AuthorEssex Hemphill
ISBN1573441015
I recently found out about Essex Hemphill while I was frontlisting up-coming titles. In case you also didn't know, he was a black, gay poet and activist in the 80s and 90s who died from AIDS in the mid 90s. I found out that one of his most well known works was Ceremonies and of course, it's out of print. But my...
American Dreams
AuthorSapphire
ISBN0679767991
In the tradition of Alice Walker, this electrifying new African American voice delivers the verdict on the urban condition in a sensual, propulsive, and prophetic book of poetry and prose.

Whether she is writing about an enraged teenager gone "wilding" in Central Park, fifteen-year-old...
The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader
AuthorGloria E. Anzaldúa
ISBN0822345641
Born in the Río Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldúa was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldúa played a major role in shaping contemporary Chicano/a and lesbian/queer...
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment
AuthorJames I. Charlton
ISBN0520224817
James Charlton has produced a ringing indictment of disability oppression, which, he says, is rooted in degradation, dependency, and powerlessness and is experienced in some form by five hundred million persons throughout the world who have physical, sensory, cognitive, or developmental disabilities....
Kynship
AuthorDaniel Heath Justice
ISBN0973139668
The Everland, home of the Eld-Folk since time immemorial, a deep green world of ancient mystery and sacred shadow. A thousand years have passed since the world of Men and the world of the Folk collided in catastrophe. The wyr-powers of the Kyn and the other Folk have preserved their verdant homeland from...
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