E

By Noa Micaela Fields

Like a game of telephone gone haywire, these mischievous mishearings and homophonic translations remix a classic of 20th Century American poetry.

C'mon, take the E pill (is it estrogen? ecstasy? something else entirely?). E practices mishearing as a bodily reworking of language alongside the poet's hormonal transition, stretching the upper limits of homophonic translation to unleash the unexpected queer resonances of Louis Zukofsky's "A." E alchemizes mishearing into a political possibility of glitching, noncompliance, and protest. Not a translation, but maximally trans, mishearing transmutes language to generate new possibilities: how hormones change the body; how relationships evolve, multiply, and implode over time.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643622935
• ISBN13: 9781643622934
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.8"