A5, 64 pages, Black & white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2025

Maya Cordero's tender whatever, is many things—a harrowing dispatch from the front lines of what America has devolved into, a refreshingly real treatise on addiction, an exquisite reckoning with girlhood—but "it's all never heroin," as Cordero herself writes. Cordero, who gracefully lays her body atop the small and blurred line between girl and meat, both reaffirms and makes us question whether words can still be—have ever been—enough. In the lyric tradition of Ginsberg and evocative of T Fleischmann, but in a realm that is certainly her own, Cordero shows us ourselves at our ugliest and most beautiful, our most vulnerable and our strongest.

Published by