Be Recorder, 2019, Graywolf Press
Shortlisted for the 2019 National Book Award in Poetry
Finalist for the 2019 PEN Open Book Award
Finalist for the Audre Lorde Award in Lesbian Poetry
“As she documents a range of subjects — including reality TV, capitalism and the exploitation of immigrant workers — Smith questions how an individual’s experiences are shaped by the dominant culture and how to push back.” —The Washington Post
Available at: Graywolf / Amazon
Cruel Futures, 2018, City Lights Spotlight Series
"Carmen Giménez Smith's beautiful book, Cruel Futures is one of those rare books, rare pieces of art, that manages to be extremely intimate, vulnerable and close while also doing a kind of searing cultural critique." —Ross Gay
Available at: City Lights Spotlight Series/ Indiebound/ Powell's/ Amazon / Barnes & Noble
Angels of the Americlypse: New Latin@ Writing, edited by Carmen Giménez Smith and John Chávez, 2015, Counterpath Press
“A literary meeting place, a bodega for the thirsty reader, Angels of the Americlypse activates the topologies of place, language, and ethnicity in ways that remind one that modernity can begin again in altered form because it is perhaps not essentially historical in nature but, rather, theoretical and performative.” —Daniel Tiffany
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Milk and Filth, 2013, Camino del Sol, University of Arizona Press
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
"Giménez Smith generously deploys physical—often violent—imagery to challenge classist, consumerist, and socially polite forms of feminism." —Publishers Weekly
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Goodbye, Flicker, 2012, University of Massachusetts Press
Winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry
"Gimenez Smith's third collection braids references to classic fairy tales drawn from a deep well of sources--dark, violent, twisted narratives that ensnare and repeat. . . . her expansive, visionary work promises to satisfy many hungers."—Los Angeles Review of Books
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The City She Was, 2011, Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
"Feast on poems with long lines and fantastical imagery; you want to get a second look but you’re at the next corner, and there’s more and more to see and hear."— The Rumpus
Available at: University Press of Colorado / Indiebound / Powell's / Barnes & Noble
Bring Down the Little Birds, 2010, University of Arizona Press
"Ultimately, [Gimenez Smith] does the best thing a writer can do—she trusts her voice. She trusts that her point of view is fresh (it is), that her experiences and analysis are compelling (they are) and that her book will stand out in an often-misguided, cliché-saturated genre. Here's hoping it does."— Ms. Magazine
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Odalisque in Pieces, 2009, Camino del Sol, University of Arizona Press
"Carmen Giménez Smith brings us news both of this world, and the one before it.” —Laura Kasischke
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