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Quickviewsound of wave in channel, Books I and II by Stephen Ratcliffe
Poetry, SuperstarsIn Stephen Ratcliffe’s sound of wave in channel, constant difference meets constant sameness. The result is a sublime evanescence, where the daily practice of poetry becomes a means of making palpable the immanent transcendence that Dickinson called “Finite infinity.” —Charles Bernstein$50.00 -
Quickviewspecimens by Mark Cunningham
PoetryMy introduction to Mark Cunningham came when a small swarm of [beetles] arrived in my inbox at Otoliths. Delightful things, that I was instantly enamored of. Something of a paradox, though. So detailed they could only have been examined at length whilst pinned to a plush velvet tray; & yet so full of life. —Mark Young$16.00 -
QuickviewSpleen Elegy by Jason Labbe
PoetryLet’s twin and twine together two primary aspects of how America can see herself—the good atoms of Whitman’s leaves of grass, and the engines humming their freedom on the highways that cut across those 19th century fields. Now, Jason Labbe well knows, as Whitman’s atoms become pixels, we find ourselves at a crossroads, learning again and again the consequences of “the indescribable way you shape / a past of little use.” —Dan Beachy-Quick$16.00 -
QuickviewStarlight: 150 poems by John Tranter
Poetry, SuperstarsCertainly John Tranter, who has been an international phenomenon for some time, is not one to deny the influences from outside, or to slow down the discussion of whether it all (Beats, Black Mountain, New York School) may be a hoax itself. This open question is, after all, what gives them their plangency and liveliness. Welcome to Tranter’s medicinal coruscating world. You’ll like it. It’ll do you good. — John Ashbery$16.00 -
QuickviewStarlight’s Genesis: An Anthology of the Starlight Gallery
Poetry$25.00Each of these works opens connections to people who often feel disconnected; they offer chances to see ourselves within those who often seem different from us. In that sense, for those who created these, and you who absorb them, they can be the genesis of a newly shared joy.” —Paul T. Hogan -
QuickviewStone by Naomi Buck Palagi
PoetryIn Buck Palagi’s Stone, the words are pulled from the ground, vivid and durable—poetic stones of memory and contemplation. Her poetry shows a connection to the earthen, the bodily, while engaging in contemporary and playful poetic practice. The words in this first book signal a fully formed poet we surely need to follow. —William Allegrezza$16.00 -
QuickviewStorm Crop by Stacie Leatherman
PoetryMore and more, I see those who want to figure out and document the puzzling emotions that come with an awareness of one’s involvement in global events turn to poetry. Stacie Leatherman’s Storm Crop is part of this. It is a psychogeographical accounting of contemporary experience. She turns to her subconscious in order to attempt an honest accounting of these emotions and then she organizes these with an alphabetical inclusiveness. It is a book of empathy and of longing. —Juliana Spahr$16.00 -
QuickviewStormy Mondays by Skip Fox
PoetryThere are gems here: it’s Skip Fox’s Monday. Push through and get into the smoke. Whatever happened before Monday, Monday also means a beginning. Read to feel the future lives offered by these fascinating word-doors. —Eileen R. Tabios$16.00 -
QuickviewStratification By Meghan Punschke
PoetryAll the wondrous stratifications of water, atmosphere, myth, history, society and (of course) the chills and fevers of colloquial lives are rigorously plotted in this dense, layered, disconcerting book. I know of few poems as insistently scrutinizing but empathetic, or as simultaneously devastating and resplendent. ~Robert Polito$16.00 -
QuickviewString Parade by Jordan Stempleman
PoetryWith a voice that speaks of the simultaneous desolation and burgeoning hopefulness of our time, Stempleman's String Parade begs us to listen again to an American landscape long forgotten, yet still around. It is a landscape full of children and families, of old Hollywood glamour, of worn out streets, of gardens, of domestic scenes full of ache, of heavy rain clouds, of dedication. As the title suggests, images and people float at us in endless sequences, strung together in a language of the everyday. —Dorothea Lasky$16.00 -
QuickviewSubmissions by Jared Schickling
PoetryCutting ruthless swathes into the dense thickets of history and culture, Jared Schickling's submissions is the linguistic detritus of his singular explorations. Hard to classify, impossible to pin down, this poem demands attentive reading and re-reading. Its unforgiving energy and relentless tension make it seem as if Herman Melville and Susan Howe got together and, during an awkward pause in the conversation, conjured Jared Schickling from a dark corner of the room. —Daniel Bouchard$16.00 -
QuickviewSunday Double Suicide by Goro Takano
New Releases, PoetryIn my poetry, orderly chaos reigns. You will keep feeling countless lessons in love and solitude loom up through the mad torrent of myriad images in this book. I hope reading this book will somehow help you navigate your own way through everyday realities. —Goro Takano$16.00
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