Personalized Wishlist Series 4!

We’re excited to be sharing our fourth “Personalized Wishlist” installment today!

For fans of queer writing, we recommend Queers Like Me by Michael V. Smith! Confessional and immersive, Michael V. Smith’s latest poetry collection is a broad tapestry that explores growing up queer and working class, then growing into an urban queer life.

For fans of political writing, we suggest Rich and Poor by Jacob Wren! Rich and Poor is a novel of a man who washes dishes for a living and decides to kill a billionaire as a political act. It is literature as political theory and theory as pure literary pleasure—a spiralling, fast-paced parable of joyous, overly self-aware, mischievous class warfare.

Finally, we recommend Plenitude by Daniel Sarah Karasik for those who enjoy both! A non-binary faun wishes their body had a variety of sex organs, interchangeable daily. A prison abolitionist scrutinizes Rothko paintings on the carceral state’s boardroom walls. The insurrectionary tactics of mass social movements spread, like a secret handshake, from Chile to Hong Kong to Toronto. Shaped by Daniel Sarah Karasik’s experience of grassroots social and political advocacy, these poems are an offering to those engaged in struggles for a better world—and an acknowledgement of the sometimes contradictory meanings of those struggles.

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