In this week are some great comics, a trilogy translated from Spanish, and an evocative book of poetry. 

This Woman’s Work ,Julie Delporte, trans. Aleshia Jensen & Helge Dascher

Such a pleasure to read Julie Delporte’s new work that grapples with expectations of womanhood, creativity, desire, and trauma. Drawn in pencil crayons - vivid, bright, and evocative - written with intimacy and reflection, the book comes alive with heart and ache.

Kid Gloves: Nine months of careful chaos, Lucy Knisley

Tracking her difficult journey to conceive, her difficult pregnancy, and her difficult delivery, comic artist Lucy Knisley offers an honest yet lighthearted story of what it can mean to become a mother in this day in age. The real measure of this graphic collection is how well she balances factual, helpful information with the wild adventure of creating life.

The Nocilla Trilogy, Agustin Fernandez Mallo, trans. Thomas Bunstead

Considered a landmark in Latin American literature, The Nocilla Trilogy brings together three multi-choral novels that mix fiction with non-fiction, the imagined with the factual.The books - Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Experience, and Nocilla Lab - gather multiple peculiar narratives situated along the US’ Route 50. It’s about the mutating multiplicity that arises when urbanization, globalization, and virtuality take hold of our interior and social lives.

A Piece of Good News, Katie Peterson

Visceral and evocative, Peterson’s poems feel like a haze that slowly dissipating, like an ever growing clarity of vision and knowing. Her fourth collection, A Piece of Good News is about the unspoken trajectories between money, nature, cities, death, and knowledge.

Cassandra Darke, Posy Simmonds

A huge comic star in the UK, we’ve recently received Simmonds new graphic novel specially in store. It begins with a crime, and we follow the aftermath through eyes of the titular character, a solitary curmudgeon art dealer in London during the festive winter season. The joy of this book is seeing the kind of unlikable but completely compelling female character that isn’t usually portrayed with deep complexity in books.