A counterform is an area defined by what it’s surrounded by, a kind of negative space that’s hard to characterize on its own, much like these collections, which occupy and traverse the ever-shifting space between genres. Chen Chen’s In Cahoots with the Rabbit God deliriously embraces finding the sacred in the most unexpected places, from writing about procrastinating writing to the thin membrane separating Sailor Moon and rage. Part lyric memoir, part cultural criticism, We Radiant Things: Notes on Being Alien and Becoming Cyborg by Franny Choi asks a timely and uncomfortable question: Why do so many cyborgs and robots wear the face of an attractive Asian woman? Claudia Rankine is at her most fearless and personal in Triage, a genre- and format-blending exploration of a long, at times unsettling friendship contoured by time and grief.

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