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Gagaan X'usyee/Below the Foot of the Sun

Poems

X'unei Lance Twitchell

University of Alaska Press, 2023

Identity and understanding are fluid and plural, yet the histories of violence and oppression influence and shape everything in the world because the past, present, and future exist in the same plane and at the same time. Gagaan Xʼusyee / Beneath the Foot of the Sun is a unique collection of Indigenous cultural work and Lingít literature in the tradition of Nora Marks Dauenhauer and in the broader contemporary company of Joy Harjo and Sherwin Bitsui. Focused on the history of place and the Lingít and Haida people, who recognize little separation between life and art, these forty-six poems reach into the knowledge of the past, incorporate visions currently received, and draw a path for future generations.
 
The collection is divided into four sections based on how the Lingít talk about g̱agaan—the sun. Featuring some poems in English, some in Lingít, and some that combine the beauty of the two, Gagaan Xʼusyee / Beneath the Foot of the Sun displays an equal dignity in both languages that transcends monolingual constrictions.
 
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Gagaan X'usyee/Below the Foot of the Sun

Poems

X'unei Lance Twitchell

University of Alaska Press, 2023

Identity and understanding are fluid and plural, yet the histories of violence and oppression influence and shape everything in the world because the past, present, and future exist in the same plane and at the same time. Gagaan Xʼusyee / Beneath the Foot of the Sun is a unique collection of Indigenous cultural work and Lingít literature in the tradition of Nora Marks Dauenhauer and in the broader contemporary company of Joy Harjo and Sherwin Bitsui. Focused on the history of place and the Lingít and Haida people, who recognize little separation between life and art, these forty-six poems reach into the knowledge of the past, incorporate visions currently received, and draw a path for future generations.
 
The collection is divided into four sections based on how the Lingít talk about g̱agaan—the sun. Featuring some poems in English, some in Lingít, and some that combine the beauty of the two, Gagaan Xʼusyee / Beneath the Foot of the Sun displays an equal dignity in both languages that transcends monolingual constrictions.
 
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Gold Country

Vanesha Pravin

The Ohio State University Press, 2026

Vignettes of working-class life create a panoramic portrait of the emotional wages of surviving in America

In Gold Country, Vanesha Pravin crafts indelible vignettes of labor, race, and contemporary existence that together offer a panoramic view of today’s United States. Through each life that she conveys line by startling line, she traces the disparity between aspiration and reality when it comes to the American dream: an undocumented worker waits on a celebrity, a government contractor compromises his integrity to secure the future of his children, a career waiter is haunted by the contrast between his inner life and reality, and an orderly steals credit cards for a fix. Wistful and weary, her protagonists wrestle with thwarted dreams and personal shame, but in stitching together a patchwork from their lives, Pravin asks us all to confront the wider realities of deprivation, greed, and their insidious influence on how we function as a society. Gold Country offers a gorgeously nuanced portrait of working life in a supposedly democratic country, airing hard truths about labor, complicity, and the rifts between us.
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Grabbing the Beast by the Throat

Pamela R. Anderson-Bartholet

Michigan State University Press, 2027

Grabbing the Beast by the Throat is a gripping volume of historical fiction in poetry that follows the life of Pavel Svoboda, a Czechoslovakian man whose life turns upside down when Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia and brings Europe to the brink of World War II. Readers witness Pavel’s evolution from a carefree college student with a close-knit family into a resistance fighter who opposes Hitler’s brutal regime. When other college students are slaughtered for protesting the occupation and his Jewish girlfriend is taken to Terezín (Theresienstadt) Concentration Camp, Pavel joins the Czech resistance to protect the people he loves, undermine those in power, and help regain his country’s freedom.

In America and around the world, the clear rise of fascism makes it vitally important that we continue to learn from the past. Grounded in history, this book is a powerful—and unmistakably timely—reminder that there are times when we must fight for freedom.

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Greater Ghost

Christian J. Collier

Four Way Books, 2024

In Christian Collier’s debut poetry collection, Greater Ghost, this extraordinary Black Southern poet precisely stitches the sutures of grief and gratitude together over our wounds. These pages move between elegies for private hauntings and public ones, the visceral bereavement of a miscarriage alongside the murder of a family member, and the specter of police brutality. With a profound awareness of literary tradition, Collier enters into the American canon and dialogues with Black Southern noir—a poem like “Beloved,” whose title expresses not only a genuine tenderness in its term of endearment but invokes Morrison, contextualizes this book within the legacy of racial injustice in the U.S., presenting again the prolific losses and disproportionate Black mortality across time, and yet remembers the resilience of love and transformative possibility of self-actualization from inside tragedy. 
 
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