REPRISE
Poems and Photographs
Haymarket Books (15 April 2025)
Trade paper • ISBN-13: 9798888903056 • US $29.95 • 5 in x 8 in • 144 pgs.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
A visual & lyrical declaration filled with fever & flight, Reprise, Golden’s second collection of poetry & photography, maps a personal search for safety in a US that offers none.
Golden’s collection illuminates a path through national uprisings, anti-trans violence, family loss, and a global pandemic. These sonically playful poems and assertive, color-saturated portraits reveal a stark vulnerability that invites readers to look deeply at times of great and, possibly, liberatory uncertainty.
At its heart, this collection asks: Where is home? Who is free? What makes a nation?
Golden seeks portals towards self-liberation. In their pursuit, we’re invited to witness and learn from their interior revolution, from which they emerge more free to declare themselves in small and large ways: Whether stating I just want to wear my orange dress to the tennis courts & come back home unbothered or I am home in the arms of the armed.
Building on their debut collection A Dead Name That Learned How to Live and their award-winning self-portraiture series On Learning How to Live, Golden honors the living siege & sorrow, rage & revival, joy & creation of being Black and trans in America.
PRAISE:
“Reprise, as the title may suggest, is a miraculous and immense book of returns and reinventions. The beauty of Golden’s work is the close attention paid to ideas, to objects, to people and place, a close attention that makes the poems as limitless as the subjects. This book is an act of rage, of affection, of innovation. An achievement.”
Hanif Abdurraqib, author of There’s Always This Year
“Golden has given us a burning frame that resists any easy gaze at Black skin, Black memory, or Black voice. Golden announces, ‘I will die… so let this be…without the language of glory.’ Reprise is defiant, sublime, incandescent. Reprise is about chosen birth. The language of limb, nigga, and stanza is so original, so unforgettably revelatory, that I’m certain we will keep returning to the face of these poems and images to see ourselves revealed and confronted here.”
Rachel Eliza Griffiths, author of Promise
“Reprise is an unflinching work that fills us with commentary on a replay of history, past and present, and allows us to imagine a future of possibilities. I admire Golden’s experimentation with language, storytelling and imaging-making.”
Deborah Willis, author of Posing Beauty in African American Culture
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Golden (they/them) is a Black, gender-nonconforming, trans photographer, poet, educator, curator, and community organizer raised in Hampton, Virginia (Kikotan land), and currently residing in Brooklyn, New York (Lenapehoking land). Golden is the author of A DEAD NAME THAT LEARNED HOW TO LIVE (Game Over Books, 2022), a Lambda Literary Award finalist in 2023, and the photographic series On Learning How to Live, a 2021 Arnold Newman Photography Prize finalist. On Learning How to Live documents Black trans life at the intersections of surviving and living in the United States. Golden holds a BFA in photography and imaging from New York University.
RIGHTS INFORMATION:
Please contact subagents for the following languages and territories:
| Language/Territory | Subagent |
|---|---|
| China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam | Big Apple Agency |
| Dutch | Sebes & Bisseling Literary Agency |
| English outside North America | David Grossman Literary Agency |
| French | Deborah Druba Agency |
| German | Paul & Peter Fritz AG Literatur Agentur |
| Greek | Read n' Right Agency |
| Hebrew | The Deborah Harris Agency |
| Italian | Berla & Griffini Rights Agency |
| Japanese | The English Agency (Japan) Ltd |
| Korean | BC Agency, or Korea Copyright Center |
| Portuguese | RIFF Agency |
| Russia/Baltics/Eastern Europe | Prava I Prevodi |
| Scandinavia | Sebes & Bisseling Literary Agency |
| Spanish in Latin America | MB Agencia Literaria |
| Spanish in Spain | MB Agencia Literaria |
| Turkish | Anatolialit Agency |
For all other languages/territories, please contact Roam Agency.