Peter Cornell’s novel-in-notes The Ways of Paradise is itself an enigma, even as it pursues a whole complex of enigmatic and esoteric phenomena spanning millennia, languages, cultures, and discourses, from art history to literature to politics, all pointing to something invisible—and terrible—at the center.

Treatbaby’s extraordinary Our Air, winner of the sought-after Nightboat poetry prize (a press that consistently publishes some of the finest new experimental poetry, especially from queer writers), is one of the most remarkable and significant American poetry debuts of the last decade. Our Air introduces an utterly original voice that calls out from under the leaves and back from the future.