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QuickviewOvertures by Ted Pearson
New Releases, PoetryThe standard acrostic submitted to pre-preparation's careful, reticent, insistently epigraphic procedures; the cenobitic playhouse accompaniment in blue sphere’s black expanse; the constant opening of open and uncountable dialog in analog: ladies and gentlemen and all the swung and transient surround, it's nobody but Ted Pearson! – Fred Moten$18.00 -
QuickviewOvid’s Creek by Sam Magavern, Art by Monica Angle
New Releases, Poetry$22.00In Ovid's Creek Sam Magavern, in paying tribute to the Roman poet Ovid, works out his own ars poetica, one that values plainness over ornament, playfulness over solemnity, and liveliness over propriety and elevation. ... The result is a book of peculiar freshness. —Carl Dennis, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Practical Gods.
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QuickviewPermission to Relax by Sheila E. Murphy
New Releases, PoetryThese intricately constructed structures have an air of lightness about them, though mixed into that lightness is the existential angst of the quotidian rung with rhythmic grace and disjunctive virtuosity. —Daniel Borzutsky$18.00 -
QuickviewPieces by Hank Lazer
New Releases, PoetryThese apt, reductive verses keep a locus of faith with skill and moving commitment. —Robert Creeley$18.00 -
QuickviewPoetic Realism by Rachel Blau DuPlessis
New Releases, Poetry, SuperstarsPoetic Realism by Rachel Blau DuPlessis is the fourth episode of the on-going work Traces, with Days. It is both a committed poetry looking out at the world in witness, resistance, and with a fervent vow to find “incantatory information” in an account of what is seen, felt, and thought.$16.00 -
QuickviewPolaroids of Turbulence by Henry Sussman
New Releases, PoetryPolaroids of Turbulence is a chronicle of culture trouble, a verse report of the unfathomable depths of our times: “barbarism’s eternal return.” Sussman’s sharp observations and linguistic play mark a “jagged trajectory” through “the outerbanks of / introspection.” —Nancy Kuhl$22.00 -
Quickviewprairie)d by Garin Cycholl
New Releases, PoetryMostly, Cycholl proceeds in dismay for the beggaring of his world. prairie)d is the song of a grieving poet. It tells of the water which dribbles muddily through a once-garden and into lives malformed by manias of profit. —Dennis Cooley$18.00 -
QuickviewRearview Mirror by Charles Borkhuis
New Releases, PoetryThe rapidity & delight of Charles Borkhuis’s poetry, set against the serious matters of truth & lies, of light & darkness, is difficult to capture & impossible to escape. And all of this he delivers with a master’s sure sense of humor & grief, the badge of a poet at the top of his powers, which I read now with ever-growing delight, & still can’t stop reading. —Jerome Rothenberg$18.00 -
QuickviewSay It Into My Mouth by H. L. Hix
New Releases, PoetryWhat makes H. L. Hix’s book unique is that its set of very personal, indeed autobiographical poems turn out, paradoxically enough, to be composed almost entirely of quoted text. How does a poet perform this feat? ... Every aphorism or question provokes a further question or response, often familiar on its own, but transformed by its context. The resulting lyric conceptualism or conceptualist lyric — take your pick! — is as thought-provoking as it original and charming. — Marjorie Perloff$18.00 -
QuickviewSecret’s Exhibition and Other Introventions by Vernon Frazer
New Releases, PoetryVernon Frazer's Secret's Exhibition and Other Introventions is a delightful book, showing & showcasing once again, from the first poem on — "to repeal a tense present / riding the grammar surge" — the poet's ability to align words with other, often disparate, words, & then shape the resultant phrases into assemblages of insight & beauty. —Mark Young$16.00 -
QuickviewSiphonic (Volume VI, The Grammaton Series) by Irene Koronas
New Releases, PoetryIrene Koronas’ Grammaton Series is a metaleptic myth of reincarnation in an Einstein-Rosen Bridge. —Anna Phylactic, Protagonist, The Reincarnation of Anna Phylactic$18.00 -
QuickviewSlab Phases by Matt Turner
New Releases, PoetryThese are worlds that float as microscopic filaments alive as micro-engravings kinetic with migrational telepathy as they glisten with their own dictation. An endemic domain not unlike primordial grammar that dictates protracted simplicity. — Will Alexander$18.00 -
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QuickviewSleeping with Sappho by Stephen Vincent
New Releases, PoetryStephen Vincent's "Sleeping with Sappho" is a fascinating investigation of how a writer envisions a way back into history and simultaneously contemporizes it. — Maxine Chernoff$18.00 -
QuickviewSMEAR by Andrew Brenza
New Releases, PoetryRachel Blau Duplessis, author of Poetic Realism: Working with strong page-making skills in modes of visual and procedural poetry, Andrew Brenza’s serious work comments on the tearing up and uneasy reconfiguring of languages in our historical moment. He creatively transforms inaugural addresses of all U.S. Presidents: imploded, exploded, spun to whirlpool, in a “jagged maw” or “transforming into a broken vapor.”$16.00 -
QuickviewSongBu®st by Stephen Bett
New Releases, PoetryStephen Bett’s new book SongBu®st sounds like a ship-wrecked wit (“We are coast people”) riffing at the end of the world. Here you’ll find snippets of old American pop songs morphed into takes on gun carnage and quotes from tech bros, each separated from the other by an “infrathin delay.” —Rae Armantrout$18.00 -
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 -
QuickviewSung: Ink in love & lust by Mick Raubenheimer
New Releases, PoetryRaubenheimer’s voice is a unique one – a solitary one – one that is rarely heard in South Africa, or even rarely heard this side of consciousness. Some of these poems are like snapshots – short-lined, frequently employing eye-popping wordplay, but always with precision and economy of measure. They can be light-hearted and humourous, yet still cast a pebble into the depths of profundity or even blackness, fear, dark rituals – ‘the violence of magic’. —Gary Cummiskey$18.00 -
QuickviewSweet Boy by Matthew Petit
New Releases, Poetry$18.00At once steely and intimate, these poems invite us to sit with the world in all its beauty and terror —Christine Kitano
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QuickviewTender by Travis Cebula
New Releases, Poetry$22.00In Tender Travis Cebula transforms raw, emotional experiences into preserved moments of artful reflection. —Janaka Stucky
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QuickviewTest Camp by Randy Prunty
New Releases, PoetryIn these pages an absorbent and meditative mind faces a world of unrelenting transit. Randy Prunty's ability to take inventory under circumstances where "speed covers loss" is remarkable and sustaining. He would reclaim the accelerated present's "chains of subsequency" and make them meaningful once again. —George Albon$18.00 -
QuickviewThat Woman Could Be You by Vi Khi Nao + Jessica Alexander
New Releases, Poetry, SuperstarsLike Anne Charlotte Robertson's Five Year Diary seen through a fervid haze, its Super 8 frames fractaling in and out of memory's forlorn theatrics, the pieces in this book invite the reader on a jaunt of vanishingly small, gigantic, public, and intimate dimensions. Accept the invitation. Reel with all the ways That Woman Could be You. –– ALI RAZ$22.00 -
QuickviewThe Breath by Cindy Savett
New Releases, PoetryCindy Savett’s The Breath accesses and occupies the territory, real and true, where the living can dwell with the dead. The speaker’s beloved daughter lives on, in spirit and lyric, as she “steps into the stable of vanished gods.” Savett’s skillful elegies hold the daughter’s hand and reader’s attention across the threshold. — Jason Labbe, author of Spleen Elegy$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Built World by George Albon
New Releases, PoetryIn The Built World connection is understood as the spaces between things and scenes that move continuously, resonating underneath with all represented surfaces and experiences. This is a tough, beautiful, provocative, companionable book of poems. —Anselm Berrigan$18.00
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