The Every Wild

Mouthfeel Press, 2024

This is a book of hooks in connection and desire, bodies human and non-human, living and dead, reaching for one another across time and space despite the perils of the every moment. The book is an attempt to see what happens when the inherited begonia plant and the concreted swamp are understood in an embodied and etymological way, grappling with their colonization, while still loving and caring for them as entities. "To lover the fallen branch" as one poem says. In this book is some diversion, some joy, some very queer connections, and also an intense unrequited longing to undo the historical legacies of supremacy, domination, and fear.

Grin Go Home / Las provincias internas

Editorial Ultramarina, 2024

“JD Pluecker ventures to stretch poetry to its limits. The language here is gutsy, scheming to destroy grammar, as “on this side” the poems “dive-bomb mechanics.” This book, divided into seven parts, holds poems of a bold pluckiness. In this wild romp through words, languages themselves jumble together, and each poem is its own universe, wherein we learn about Country M, Country A or the Ciudades L. We find ourselves reading an experimental writing with no fear of inventing a sui generis form of languaging. With this book, the Bilingüe Mar collection brings the poetry of JD Pluecker to Spanish-speaking communities, with the hope that this might be another means to get to know this dissident, performative writing, a poetry that does not give way even one inch in the name of comfort.” - Gian Pierre Codarlupo

The Unsettlements: Dad

Lawndale Art & Performance Center, 2019

This is an artist book that is part of The Unsettlements, created as part of the exhibition in the citysinging show at Lawndale Art Center in 2019. The book is a translation of the work journal I kept over the year in residence in the Artist Studio Program at Lawndale: a book object hand-lettered in pencil that is a translation of the work journal I kept over year: a scrapbook of thinking, notes from studio visits, Youtube videos, fragments of conversations with my dad, Instagram posts, tweets, book covers, organic material, and more. The book builds a larger universe of fragments that exist in parallel to (and in the afterlife of) the object poems and videos in the citysinging exhibition space.

Ford Over

Noemi Press, 2016

My first full-length book of poetry and image. Cut up and aggregate and mashup: made of language drawn from the multilingual chronicles of colonial agents who traveled through the land now known as the state of Texas. At the heart of the book is the mystery of the physical act of crossing a river.

The book was the result of years of seven years of work, not just on the page, but also in performances, collaborative work with musicians, and more.