Ownself Say Ownself: New and Selected PoemsOwnself Say Ownself is a chaotic collection of new and selected poetry by Joshua Ip. Half of it is 44 poems salvaged from the award winning, out of print wilderness of his first five ish collections, marked up with mischievous metric marginalia in the newly invented form of the tilde (tl; dr). The next half is 44 new translations, performance pieces and formal experiments written over the course of a practice research PhD. So you get the best of six

" his grandmother says

It is not a romantic desire that drives them

The Days of Abandonment shocked and captivated its Italian public when first published

based instead on cooperation and racial tolerance

Crude Capitalism maps the varied geographies of oil

and the joys of losing yourself in literature as a child

her best friend

California and South Africa generated new modifications in the international monetary system

the imagination

the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear

The Mekong Review

but he weaves these ambitious lives together to create a rich narrative of Islamic civilization