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Quickview26 Tears by George Tysh / Chris Tysh
Poetry, SuperstarsWhat an abracadabra of abecedarian magic is 26 Tears! Evoking the Aramaic avra kehdabra, "I will create as I speak," this collaborative incantation weaves a magical spell of language. Two poets riff in alphabetical measure with illuminating literary texts, an epidemic, and a quotidian of political angst. — Maureen Owen$18.00 -
Quickview2X2 by Martine Bellen
PoetrySmart, funny, at once spare and lyrically lush, this mythic tale of a lost girl stalking her lost double will pull you delightedly along with its swift narrative—pull you up short when it makes you stop and think. Martine Bellen is an astonishing writer. —Rilla Askew$16.00 -
Quickview3rd & 7th by Nicolas Mansito III
PoetryReading Nicolás Mansito's first book I am reminded that the Latin verb "to read," legere, means to choose, to select, and that reading, and in fact all writing, is an act of bricolage. This book of poems reminds that every free act, of both making and being, arises from a bondage to what simply /is/. And from there we fiddle and tinker our way to wisdoms. A book you'll be grateful to own. —Gabriel Gudding,$16.00 -
QuickviewA Dictionary In The Subjunctive by Damian Weber
PoetryIn his new book, Damian Weber, one of Buffalo’s best-loved poet, publisher, singer and songwriter offers a magnificent display of minimalism. Fully illustrated, these short poems start as dictionary definitions that evolve into love poems, which in turn develop into poems detailing the pain of miscommunication that harbors within a relationship between two people.$16.00 -
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 -
QuickviewA Lyrebird, Selected Poems of Michael Farrell by Michael Farrell; Editor Jared Schickling
Poetry, SuperstarsEnter A Lyrebird and you open onto a polyphony of slang and nuance. Expect a humorous disorientation and deep travel through undersides of all that can be said and borrowed. Just in time, since mono-culture cannot know itself, Michael Farrell’s deft bravery transmutes English and gives us journeys out. —Sarah Riggs$18.00 -
QuickviewA Mountain Of Past Lives & Things I’ve Learned by Skyler Jaye
Poetry"Each of the Past-lives, each written into a Mountain its own, also seems to fit into an open hand. I found myself snapping and ooo-ing and mmm-ing along because even black on white paper, the words take a stage." —Ashley Wylde$16.00 -
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QuickviewA Shopping Mall on Mars By Patrick Chapman
PoetryMany of the poems in A Shopping Mall on Mars, Patrick Chapman's fourth collection, take a wry and satirical look at the dangerous new world in which we find ourselves, looking back with a certain nostalgia at the relative innocence of the nuclear age. Others offer compassionate yet unsparing insights into death, madness and childhood. A few speculate with science-fictional clarity on the kind of future we might be heading towards. This is work of the finest order from one of the most original Irish poets of the last two decades.$16.00 -
QuickviewA Testament To Love & Other Losses by Wade Stevenson
PoetryThe suspicion that writing will be the last utopia is wonderfully fulfilled by the extraordinary promise and quivering present of Wade Stevenson’s lyrical, deep and lustrous oeuvre. —Geoffrey Gatza$16.00 -
QuickviewA Thousand Words and Others by George Tysh
PoetryGeorge Tysh's two-part take on presence and absence is rooted in jazz and painting, French and Mandarin, memory and longing, in a recto-verso approach to structure. Its first bareboned section, "A Thousand Words," is 100 pages, ten words per page, set in columns that give a nod to classical stanza form. Part Two, "and Others," a coda of sparse lyrics, fills out the tone of what is barely implied in Part One. In a mixture of vernacular and stark poetics, he produces a book-length series that experimental novelist Lynn Crawford calls, "Lush. Rhythmic. Disturbing. Gorgeous."$16.00 -
Quickviewa womb-shaped wormhole by j/j hastain
Poetryj/j hastain is a seer. Writing from the liminal space between the ethereal and the corporeal, filled with bestiaries of the soul and spine-broken books, hastain has composed ""an activist-narrative of place"", where the body is but ""a fretted tangle"" to be worried apart, and then knotted again. Stitched in the language of sinew and fiber, a womb-shaped wormhole is transcendent, stretching past our mere genders, our temporal selves. —Benjamin Winkler$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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QuickviewAfter Language / Letters to Jack Spicer by Steven Vincent
PoetryThe test of a true poem, Stephen Vincent writes, is how not to die for it. How can a book that chills you to the bone — As Jack Spicer’s Language surely does — become a structuring, challenging, politicizing and even comforting recurring presence through forty years of a life lived under its spell? With a hard-won, contrarian patience, Vincent applies the test, and the hope he finds at the end is all the more convincing for the precarious-ness of the path it takes through the silent gap between No and One listens to poetry. —Peter Manson$16.00 -
QuickviewAgainst Misanthropy: A Life In Poetry (2015-1998) by Eileen Tabios
PoetryAGAINST MISANTHROPY presents her life as a self-educated poet—from, as a newbie poet, reading through all of the poetry books of her local Barnes and Noble as she scratched her head over what poetry is supposed to be … to more recently creating a poetry generator capable of making poems without additional authorial intervention. Along her journey, she also released about 30 poetry collections, two fiction books and four prose collections with the help of publishers in eight countries.$16.00 -
QuickviewAlburnum of the Green and Living Tree by Lara Candland
PoetryLara Candland is the artist of a living word. Alone among us, she seems best to know the inward texture of a basket and the hastening green of April branches. Hers is an intimate universal, and in Alburnum of the Green and Living Tree this intimacy becomes the vivid pretext of many truths. —Donald Revell$16.00 -
QuickviewAlice Ages and Ages by Sarah White
PoetrySarah White’s variations inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice Through the Looking Glass manage to be at once serio-comic meditations on vanity and aging and joyful celebrations of language and the human imagination. —Stephen O’Connor$16.00 -
QuickviewAll Beautiful & Useless by C. Kubasta
Poetry"I have long admired Kubasta's exploratory combination of citation, history, and autobiography in her texts. Her work is always exciting, sometimes even alarming. In her poems using the metaphor of the box, I'm reminded of Joseph Cornell, of course, but also of the great Serbian poet Vasko Popa. — John Matthias$16.00 -
QuickviewAll My Eggs Are Broken by Michael Basinski
PoetryWe have choosen to have no blurbs on this book. This supreme gift of the artist should draw you in, like the noose around the neck.$18.00 -
Quickviewall the jawing jackdaw by Nava Fader
PoetryWritten as wovens by Nava Fader the elementals, magic, earth, air, fire and water are here collaborators in constellation with the elements of Adrienne Rich and Rimbaud. Her pure lines are a strong heart's beat and each instant in the writing is a cocktail of the sensual and the spell, that realm where poetry embraces this place as the poem in nuptials. I am so embraced and I enter the estate of love. —Michael Basinski$16.00 -
QuickviewAmerican Field Couches by Bill Freind
PoetryBill Freind is the author of An Anthology (housepress, 2000). His poems have appeared in journals such as 88, Aught, Can we have our ball back, Combo, Jacket, and Spaltung. He lives near an abandoned golf course in South Jersey.$16.00 -
QuickviewAn Anatomy Of The Night by Clayton Eshleman
Poetry, SuperstarsAn Anatomy Of The Night by Clayton Eshleman is a magnificent new work by one of America’s foremost poets. In thirty-one parts written between December 2010 and February 2011, Eshleman’s long poem creates a choral effect that masterfully evokes fragments of candid observation shimmering in rhythmic intensity. In bold simplicities, illustrative sensibilities and lyrical integrity this work is imaginative, intimate and beautifully controlled. Hauntingly, these poems rip open the space of the long form poem and create something new and brilliant.$16.00 -
QuickviewAn Apparently Impossible Adventure by Laura Madeline Wiseman
PoetryLaura Madeline Wiseman’s prose is razor-sharp, cutting through all the falsities we cling to, exposing us all hiding beneath the masks we wear, exposing our wounds, our wandering frailties, all that we sidestep, and most deeply, exposing the ‘mists that divide.’ An Apparently Impossible Adventure is a stunning read. —Karen Stefano -
QuickviewAN ARCHITECTURE a poem in 56 sections by Chad Sweeney
PoetryIn "AN ARCHITECTURE," Chad Sweeney reveals himself to be a Frank Gehry of language: making an overwhelming but coherent form in precise words that measure "the violet gleam of girders." where "art is/the ghost between us." The world swells with meaning before things "smolder," "collapse," "drown". . . . And within the violent changes that he so precisely records, there are moments of rest and deep regard for what is passing. The poem is an elegy for the world in all its beauty and disturbing variety. --Maxine Chernoff$16.00
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