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Pussy Studies (Preorder)

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The discursive pussy of Zoe Tuck’s Pussy Studies is a portal into yearning for a Divinity that is “rich, thick, fecund, and plural.” The study of Pussy Studies is a living series of questions and propositions which leave the trace of their passage in the sensuous medium of the sentence. Written within the context of queer sociality, these linked prose poems have a devotional intertextuality and espouse the belief that, “‘Paradise now’ could be more than a dream some of us had.”

Preorder now for shipment September 24, 2026.

The discursive pussy of Zoe Tuck’s Pussy Studies is a portal into yearning for a Divinity that is “rich, thick, fecund, and plural.” The study of Pussy Studies is a living series of questions and propositions which leave the trace of their passage in the sensuous medium of the sentence. Written within the context of queer sociality, these linked prose poems have a devotional intertextuality and espouse the belief that, “‘Paradise now’ could be more than a dream some of us had.”

Preorder now for shipment September 24, 2026.

Early Praise for Pussy Studies

Pussy Studies is a velvety, polyvocal, multiamorous yawp: “I’m straining to enter an I-Thou relationship with every little thing so the world can be my lover.” Pussy Studies shouts from one shore to the other and asks, what will the world shout back? Divine, brainy, horny poems, Pussy Studies squishes the lines of reader, writer, lover, and friend to chart a squiggly, fertile, textured map, a “grammar of fantasy,” an orientation towards the pleasures and pains of entangle- ment. Reading Zoe’s poems always makes me want to write poems, but reading Pussy Studies makes me want to become a pussy studies scholar, get on the path “traveling towards a darkness not cold, empty, and inhospitable but rich, fecund, thick, and plural.” — Steph Cawley

For the ever-thirsty “holy rascal,” the water of life might be a cup of coffee with a side of pussy first thing, fortify- ing the initiant through eternities of ontological yearning. With Pussy Studies, Zoe Tuck touches a bit of everything under the sun, utilizing an ecstatic style i can only describe as Edenic—polyamarous & flowing associatively within the flux of selfhood—a dandy’s romp through moss, bogs, slapped breasts & other mischievous fondlings. Here is the inversion of a soul’s dark night: the light of the anus that releases even as it consumes. What acts of faith does yearn- ing require? Better ask the faggots & their friends, sun tanning on Anal Cunt Beach, relinquishing the I-THOU for something altogether more mysterious & ... holy. Reader, i was, & remain, enraptured. — imogen smith

About the Author

Zoe Tuck was born in Texas, became a person in California, and now lives in Western Massachusetts. She is a poet, teacher, and book worker. Zoe is the author of the poetry book Bedroom Vowel. She is currently working on a book about the cultivation of reading as a spiritual and liberatory practice.

Excerpts from Pussy Studies have been published in Dreamwork for the Revolution, Issue 1, DUCK, NOIR SAUNA, Prairie Schooner, Stone of Madness, Strange Hymnal, and in the chapbook, we take our orders from the alphabet published by Press Brake.