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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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