Lost & Found, paperback
Publication Date: August 4, 2026
Publisher Marketing:
You See What You See is a collection of **Lois Elaine Griffith**’s picture-poems discovered in notebooks from 2007 and 2012-2013 stored among her papers, which are now located with her archive at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at The New York Public Library. These picture-poems reflect the surrealism of Griffith’s art practice, embracing diverse ways of being and seeing to construct images that inspire s collaborative curiosity that shapes a kaleidoscopic vision between reader and artist. Griffith is one of the last surviving co-founders of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. You See What You See exemplifies the communal spirit at the heart of the Cafe’s founders’ work, in that it calls for a gathering.
The book is a trade edition co-published by Granary Books and Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. The first edition of You See What You See was published by Granary Books in 2025, as a limited-edition artist’s book in an edition of 33 copies.
