Gene Tanta’s books gather poetry, prose, art books, and children’s literature.
Poetry Books
Art Books
Children’s Books
Poetry Books
Unusual Woods is Gene Tanta’s first poetry book, with a prose introduction on biography and innovation. Surreal, image-driven poems move through complicity, interiority, and dystopian fields.
XPMK is an illuminated chapbook where drawing, translation, and fragment share the page.
Cosimo & the Queen's Peach is an epistolary collection of poetic exchanges via email between Peter Hughes and Gene Tanta.
Last Psalm presents Constantin Acosmei’s poems as translated from the Romanian into English by Gene Tanta. A poetic collection moving through grief, existential malfeasance, and the limits of address.
Art Books
Language as Visual Object is part of the Meditations Series by Gene Tanta on the play between words and color field.
Visual Ethnography is part of the Meditations Series by Gene Tanta on the purview auto-documentation opens.
The Angry and the Dead is part of the Meditations Series by Gene Tanta on the ethics of public memory.
Patchwork Portraiture is part of the Meditations Series by Gene Tanta on the joys and challenges of capturing the feeling of someone.
Children’s Books
Plastic Breakfast is the story of a curious child who discovers that plastic is hiding in everyday choices—and learns how paying attention can turn worry into wiser, kinder habits.
Bayes Bunny and the Maybes follows a probabilistic rabbit who changes his mind every time he sees a shadow, learning that maybe can be wise—but that endless maybe can become cowardice without action.
Tristan Tzara’s Proximal Child is a Dada-science fable where “near” and “far” keep changing depending on who is moving, so the child learns special relativity through friendship, perspective, and the ethics of not assuming one’s own frame is the only frame.
Professor Popper’s Mistake Machine tells the story of a child who builds a machine that only works when it is wrong first, introducing mistakes as a better habit than pretending to be certain.