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Curiosity No. 10 - Books That Stare Back

$32.00

Some books do more than invite a reader in. They challenge, unsettle, and insist on participation. Books That Stare Back gathers three formally ambitious, emotionally searching works that ask you to do more than observe from a safe distance.

Some books do more than invite a reader in. They challenge, unsettle, and insist on participation. Books That Stare Back gathers three formally ambitious, emotionally searching works that ask you to do more than observe from a safe distance.

ARE YOU HURTLING TOWARDS GOD KNOWS WHAT? by JEA Wallace

A surreal poetry collection set inside a speeding car in the afterlife, where siblings tell each other stories to pass the time on the way toward an uncertain end. Ghosts, clowns, lovers, robots, memory, and catastrophe all share the backseat.

DREAM POP ORIGAMI by Jackson Bliss

An experimental, interactive memoir about mixed-race identity, love, travel, masculinity, metamorphosis, and the layered contradictions of being hapa. Form and content fold into each other in a book that asks the reader to participate in making meaning.

JOY by Francis Daulerio

A poetry collection rooted in pregnancy, grief, fatherhood, hope, and the difficult work of staying alive. This is a book that looks at hardship directly but still insists on tenderness, love, and the possibility of meaning.