Fanny Howe was born on 15 October 1940 in Buffalo, New York. She is the author of more than fifty books of poetry and prose, and taught literature and writing throughout her life, mentoring a generation of American poets, activists and scholars working at the intersection of experimental and metaphysical thinking. She was professor emerita in literature at the University of California, San Diego, until her death on 8 July 2025 in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
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This Poor Book
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This Poor Book
May 2026
This Poor Book
Fanny Howe
Fanny Howe is a titan. Absolutely nobody writes like her. Nobody sounds like her. This Poor Book is a miracle she left for us.
This Poor Book is revelatory and casts Howe’s poetry in a new light, and for those who don’t know her work already, this is a perfect introduction. Fanny Howe is an essential poet.
At once evocative and subtly incisive Howe’s writing seems almost like a new language, a language that has been in hiding. She can make the familiar haunting and the ordinary a provocation.
For decades, Fanny Howe has been the great poet of spirit and conscience, dislocation and bewilderment. In This Poor Book, completed just before her death, she made a selection of her writing from the last thirty years, including new and revised poems, and arranged them into a single, astonishing work. Across this brilliant reconfiguration, we follow the poet as seeker, both faithful and foolish, searching for language and existence beyond the machines of economy, judgment, and war. Howe interrogates the contradiction and violence of the twenty-first century, the misbegotten experiences that have given rise to a culture of authority and adulthood rather than one of innocence and childhood. These spare lyrical shards move with a jagged but persistent direction—leading us between doubt and belief and toward Howe’s enduring vision for a life of humility, justice, and imagination.
- 978-1-0684395-5-1
- 21.6 x 13.9 cm
- 144 pp.
- Paperback
- May 2026
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Another Sun
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Another Sun
Jun 2026
Another Sun
Françoise Vergès Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro
Waiting at Aimé Césaire International Airport, in the city of Lamentin, Martinique, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro browses the bookshop. Alongside works by Césaire, it offers titles by Frantz Fanon, Maryse Condé and Patrick Chamoiseau. She picks up Nègre je suis, nègre je resterai, an interview between Françoise Vergès and Césaire, and embarks.
Another Sun revisits that initial interview, blending biographical experience and concise summaries of key figures in French anti-racist thought, marking their contemporary relevance. An eclectic, attentive, mobile conversation between Rodríguez Castro and Vergès, shaped by ongoing struggles.
- 978-1-0684395-2-0
- 21.6 x 13.9 cm
- 96 pp.
- Paperback
- June 2026
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Françoise Vergès (Reunion Island) is a writer, decolonial antiracist feminist and curator. She writes on the afterlife of slavery and colonisation, psychiatry, the museum and climate disaster. Her publications include: Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism (2024), A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum (2024), A Decolonial Feminism (2021), The Wombs of Women: Race, Capital, Feminism (2020) and Resolutely Black: Conversations with Françoise Vergès, with Aimé Césaire (2020). She has written documentary films on Maryse Condé (2013) and Aimé Césaire (2011), and was a project advisor for documenta11 (2002) and the Triennale de Paris (2011). She is currently Senior Fellow Researcher at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, University College London.
Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro is a writer and editor. She is a former Postdoctoral Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin (2018), recipient of the Anne Waldman Fellowship at Naropa University (2019) and Textual International Fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude (2025). Her essay ‘El Nuevo Sublime’ was a finalist for the National Essay and Criticism Award in Colombia (2019). Castro is the editor of Dream of Europe: Selected Seminars and Interviews, 1984-1992 (2020), a collection of unpublished lectures by Audre Lorde, shortlisted for the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism (2021), and author of The Echo (2025).
Twenty Shadows
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Twenty Shadows
Oct 2026
Twenty Shadows
Richard Boothby
- 978-1-0684395-3-7
- 21.6 x 13.9 cm
- 300 pp.
- Paperback
- October 2026
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Richard ‘Rick’ Boothby lives in Baltimore, where he has served as a professor of philosophy for nearly forty years at Loyola University Maryland. His scholarly interests are wide-ranging but his publishing record has focused primarily on intersections between the psychoanalytic theory of the unconscious and contemporary continental philosophy. Boothby’s books include Death and Desire: Psychoanalytic Theory in Lacan's Return to Freud (1995), Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan (2001), Sex on the Couch: What Freud Still has to Teach Us About Sex and Gender (2006) and Embracing the Void: Rethinking the Origin of the Sacred (2023). He is currently finishing a book aimed at a broader audience, tentatively titled Socrates in America: An Adventure in Philosophy.