Monk Fruit

In Monk Fruit, Edward Salem prowls the edges of prophecy and punch line, like Rumi on acid.

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Edward Salem is a poet who knows the void but refuses its totalizing darkness, choosing instead to light matches in its depths. Salem reveals, then expands, worlds with each poem. From Detroit to Gaza, the Big Bang to whatever calamity comes next, he reports from far ahead of the curve, beyond the current cosmic crunch with “poise and peculiarity” (Ottessa Moshfegh). A thrilling debut collection and punk treatise, Monk Fruit bypasses ideology, finds a side door, and rearranges the furniture.

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Salem’s poems are must-reads, proceeding with a cleverly calculated off-the-cuff quality and a relentless, dry, weird wit. They spin absurdist nightmares of art and history, of links and screenshots and mediated engagement with atrocity, of the genocide against Palestinians and the many attendant erasures. Salem writes, astutely and acutely, of belonging, unbelonging, and the possibilities and impossibilities of solidarity. These poems are, in short, essential.

-Natalie Shapero
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ISBN: 9781643622910
Paperback, 96 pages
Publication Date: September 16, 2025

Edward Salem’s writing has appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Granta, The New York Review of Books, Poetry, and elsewhere. His second poetry collection, Intifadas (2026), was …

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