Monk Fruit

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

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 Fruitbypasses ideology, finds a side door, and rearranges the furniture.

Edward Salem’ssecond poetry collection,Intifadas(2026), was selected for the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. He is also the author ofMonk Fruit(2025). Salem won the 2022 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and BOMB’s 2021 Fiction Contest. His writing has appeared inThe Paris Review,Granta,The New York Review of Books,Poetry,The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. He is the co-founder of City of Asylum/Detroit, a nonprofit that provides safe-haven fellowships to writers and artists in exile who have been persecuted for their work.

• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Publish Date: September 23, 2025
• Pages: 96
• Language: English
• Type: Paperback
• EAN/UPC: 9781643622910
• Dimensions:9 in H | 6 in| 1.0
• BISAC Categories: Poetry