MacArthur and Cave Canem Fellow John Keene’s Punks: New & Selected Poems is available now from independent New York publisher The Song Cave. This landmark collection weaves together historic narratives of loss, lust, and love, giving voice to a cast of characters who address desire, oppression, AIDS, grief, and more, all with incomparable depth and nuance. An indispensable poet, Keene has also garnered accolades for his prose — notably with Counternarratives (New Directions, 2015) — and is a winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Whiting Foundation Prize, the Republic of Consciousness Prize, and the American Book Award. Punks is available for purchase at The Song Cave’s website.
