Pre-Order Eli's Forthcoming Book

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Image description: 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.

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, Eli invites us to unfurl ourselves into the lovely multitude of genders beyond the binary of woman and man, the fierceness of street protest, and the long slow time of granite. He sings to aquifers. Wrestles with the aftermath of child abuse and his family’s legacy as white settlers occupying Dakota homelands. He leans into history. Calls the names of the living and the dead. Connects his own tremoring body to a world full of tremors—earthquakes, jackhammers, quaking aspens. Unfurl reveals deep queer kinships between human and more-than-human, sentient and nonsentient. At every juncture, these poems and essays embrace porousness and the power of dreaming. Ultimately, Unfurl is an invitation to rebellion and joy.

You can preorder Unfurl from Duke University Press using the 30% discount code E25CLARE. An e-book of the book will be available in September too.