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Portion of Eli's book cover. The title Unfurl in big white letters floats on a multi-colored background.

Book Launch Events

Join Eli Clare for the launch of his new book Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming.

–October 19th at 6:30 p.m. at Charis Books, Decatur, GA, in conversation with Suzanne Pharr.
–October 21st at 7 p.m. at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
–October 22nd at 7 p.m. at Emory University, Oxford, GA.
–October 24th at 7 p.m. at Perfect Lovers, Durham, NC.

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Bands of color bend across Unfurl's cover--layers of reds and yellows, then shades of blue. Nestled inside the blue curve sits a heart of roots and tendrils. The book’s title in a large white font floats on top intertwined with fans of seeds or stones.

Pre-Order Eli’s Forthcoming Book

Unfurl: Survivals, Sorrows, and Dreaming will be available from Duke University Press in mid-September. A queer disabled love song to trees and beavers, tremors and dreams, Eli’s new book explores the pulsing core and porous edges of survival, sorrow, and dreaming. Blending poetry and creative nonfiction, emotion and activist thinking…

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A fern with furled green leaves.

New Book Coming! Unfurl: Poems, Essays, and In-Betweens

Eli is hard at work on a new book, tentatively titled Unfurl: Poems, Essays, and In-Betweens. It examines the making and unmaking of categories and asks the question: who might we become if we unfurl ourselves between and through categories, across divides of human and more-than-human, animate and inanimate?

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