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QuickviewA Field Guide to the Rehearsal by Dennis Barone
Fiction, New Releases, PoetryDennis Barone’s A Field Guide to the Rehearsal is a most unique book, an open-form, subtly off-beat narrative, a mixture of poetry and prose, of memory and concrete, image-filled metaphysics. —David Cappella$16.00 -
QuickviewAd Hoc by Hayden Bergman
New Releases, Poetry$18.00Spectacular poems from a strong new voice—Bergman’s language is energetic and surprising, beautiful and seductive; his poems are both funny and not funny, regional and universal; his voice is so strong, his thought the same, that I’ll be going back to this book to enjoy its company again and again—and I'll be passing copies of this smart, engrossing book on to others. —Renée Ashley
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QuickviewAlice Through the Working Class by Steve McCaffery, illustrations by Clelia Scala
Fiction, New Releases, SuperstarsMcCaffery, with his customary linguistic wit, now takes [Alice] through the working-class, into the industrial revolution, where Mary Wollestonecraft is the Red Queen, and the Soviet workers’ paradise, where Lenin is the Lion and the Unicorn is Trotsky. And, horribile dictu, it works. Don’t miss the Bolshevik Jabberwocky.—Jean-Jacques Lecercle,$22.00 -
QuickviewAs They Say by Robert Manery
New Releases, PoetryThese poems invent a poetic diction, mixing heady with quaint in Land-of-Cockaigne stylistic abundance. Words current, rare, archaic, and obsolete are found in As They Say syntactically pasted together in humorous tonal blends of near and far. —Louis Cabri$18.00 -
QuickviewBabies by Emily Toder
New Releases, PoetryA wonderfully thoughtful book written with the poignancy and wispy light touch of Lewis Carroll and Roz Chast. Emily Toder is very funny, but her paradoxes are deceptively simple and, if we let ourselves laugh, it’s because we don’t want to know that without babies there is no meaning on Planet Earth. —André Aciman$18.00 -
QuickviewBachelor Holiday by William Huhn
New Releases, PoetryWilliam Huhn’s Bachelor Holiday is a bittersweet, multi-dimensional recollection—of past loves, historical mysteries, moments of weather, of philosophical obsession—whose subject range and command of language dazzles. —Rachel Abramowitz$18.00 -
QuickviewBack Pages, Selected Poems by A.L. Nielsen
New Releases, Poetry'Artful, musical, and deceptively gentle, these poems reveal an uncompromising moral purpose. A. L. Nielsen is indeed a “stepping razor,” honed, witty and dangerous all at once. Pay attention.' —Beth Joselow$22.00 -
QuickviewBlack and Yellow Notebooks by Stephen Ratcliffe
New Releases, Poetry, SuperstarsThe wonderful momentum of Ratcliffe’s clipped language echoes the staccato footsteps of his week-long hikes. It’s walking art in the tradition of Richard Long and Hamish Fulton, yet kept in motion through a constantly shifting, ever-piercing attention that keeps the reader acutely present to the changing light, the passing crows, and the meteors streaking through the August night sky. To enter this book is to go uncommonly outside. -- Cole Swensen$18.00 -
QuickviewChanging Tense: Thirty memento mori by Bruce Jackson
Critical Thinking, New ReleasesBruce Jackson has written thirty memorial essays about his many friends, ranging from famous philosophers like Michel Foucault, to stray dogs like Randolph Scott, with a host of poets in between.$24.00 -
QuickviewCloud of Witnesses by Linda Norton
Critical Thinking, New Releases, Poetry$22.00Like W. E. B. Du Bois finding solace in his library, Norton moves back and across “the color line,” sits with Shakespeare, Fanny Howe, James Joyce, Toni Morrison, etc., and they wince not, welcoming her into their esteemed company. —Tyrone Williams
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QuickviewContingencies of the Bourgeoisie by Grant Matthew Jenkins
New Releases, PoetryGrant Jenkins’s Contingencies of the Bourgeoisie active as a lone imaginative probity. Within its pages, poetic medicinal ranges transpire. This script unseals itself as a form of slow motion burning alive with insistent tenacity not unlike a gem of wildfires that illuminate themselves as suns within a percussive proto-season. —Will Alexander$20.00 -
QuickviewDevil-Fictions by Lance Phillips
New Releases, PoetryLance Phillips is an exacting, brilliant, graceful poet. His Blakean vision of contraries (opening the self, seeing in an oppositional mode) and the sources of the human is nothing short of stunning ("What the sleep garners // Ghost in // Certain insignia:"). ...This is a stunning, necessary book. —Joseph Lease$18.00