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26 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 -
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2X2 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 -
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3rd & 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 -
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A 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 -
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A 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 -
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A 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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A 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 -
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A 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 -
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A 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 -
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a 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 -
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Ad Hoc by Hayden Bergman
New Releases, PoetrySpectacular 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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After 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 -
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Against 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 -
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Alburnum 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 -
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Alice 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 -
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All 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 -
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All 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 -
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all 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 -
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American 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 -
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American Outrage by H. L. Hix
New Releases, PoetryAmerican Outrage provides an innovative approach to the seemingly intractable problem of gun violence in the United States. Fresh and moving, yet cerebral and somber. At a time when powerful voices are most needed, H. L. Hix has answered the call. — Louis Klarevas
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An 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 -
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An 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 -
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AN 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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An Argument of Roots by Cornelia Veenendaal
PoetryThis extra-ordinary poet is at once companionable with the natural world and wonderfully awake to the daily surprises of the city; a poet who is almost painfully attuned to the beauty that sustains us and mindful of the terrors that threaten to fell us. Over and over, Veenendaal's poems cause us to stumble upon the quotidian the way we might catch a toe on a forest snag or trip on a loose brick in the sidewalk or lurch with the sudden braking of a T car. —Marie Harris$16.00 -
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An Internet of Containment by Anne-Adele Wight
PoetryThese poems break containment into speculation about a future where timeliness and timelessness fly hand in hand into the infinite. This is a chronicle of the exodus of souls. This is the scintillating moment when we all become homeless. “from here the aurora has changed color. ––Travis Cebula$16.00 -
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Analects by Michael Gessner
PoetrySelected from more than four decades of journal keeping, and with additional excerpts from published essays, Analects speaks to the general reader, and specifically to those who have interests in poetry and poetics. The reader will not come away without encountering helpful insights and disclosures about writing and literature in this collection. Gessner's prose has been described as “Structurally ingenious,” (Jonathan Galassi, Farrar, Straus & Giroux,” and “A great talent,” (Ray Powers, Scott & Field).$16.00 -
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And Others, Vaguer Presences by David Dodd Lee
PoetryIn a note that accompanies And Others, Vaguer Presences, the most recent collection of erasures by David Dodd Lee, he uses the phrase, “the poem wanting what the poem wants.” This statement curiously corroborates my impression that these poems were actually written by the poems themselves, which had definite ideas about what they wanted and didn’t want. It’s a strange feeling, being twice removed from one’s poems, strange and refreshing. I highly recommend Lee’s version of the poems’ poems. —John Ashbery$16.00 -
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Angles of Disorder by Zachary C. Bush
Poetry“Zachary C. Bush’s ANGLES OF DISORDER is like a fairy tale devoured by science, language re-constructed into formulas and translated back into bold prose / poetry.” --J. A. Tyler$16.00 -
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Animated Landscape by Robert Gibbons
PoetryRobert Gibbons’s new collection of poems lays bare the vast expanse of human history as a widening landscape of the most august imagination. Gibbons, a born maximalist, carries Charles Olson’s excavations into the present tense, but does so in his own measure of music, personal and specific, yet universal and inclusive. Animated Landscape never forgets history is not a then, but always now, always all around us. —Richard Deming$16.00 -
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Anon By Chris Pusateri
PoetryAnon records "soft static falling as forecast" and an ostensible caress that materializes as "an unpleasant repetition eroding his arm." Against the bleak banalities of this "experience in syndication," Chris Pusateri strikes back with a bracing admixture of silliness and patient intelligence. —Elizabeth Robinson$16.00 -
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Answer by Mark DuCharme
PoetryEnter a shimmering, wavering, vacillating, crinkly reality, the mysterious acrobatic disjointing of what you thought you knew. Enter Mark DuCharme’s Answer, where the self-evident succumbs to the agnostic as a wizardly lyric unpins certainty. Brilliantly unpredictable, these poems divine by assemblage of a familiar quotidian and set us wondering. —Maureen Owen$16.00 -
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Ante-Animots: Idioms and Tales by Nicholas Alexander Hayes
PoetryThese idioms and tales use language as a tool to lift a hazy film away from our perception and replace it with another. Is it surgery or a theater of cruelty, a catastrophe or a joke? It’s an intervention into both the real and the imaginary—not to show us that one lies beneath the other or hidden inside like a nested doll, but to remind us that animals are composed of wounds and words and that all of us are dying. It isn’t pretty, and it is. It isn’t imaginary, and none of it is real. It’s a vicious and lyrical, lucid and fantastical, vast little book. – Stephen Beachy$16.00 -
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ANTHROPOCENOMA by Chuck Richardson
PoetryA mapping of word and thought metastases to co-here (in now of us all) the crazed pathological death-life energies of our age – Richardson takes the notes inside my own head, at least, and probably taps a collective despair, why everyone can’t rouse out of diseased, disfiguring, disaster consciousness. “Sleep requires optimism. We dream of sleeping.” Planetary accord? No hope, but it is something, this general re-cognition of or against humans’ dominion over earth as a totalizing, cancerous, growth. —Magus Magnus$16.00 -
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Antibodies in the Alphabet by Linda King
PoetryKing holds us to the mark, offering no easy way out. Perhaps her poems haunt us because they’re not so much about us as our relationship to the words we use to stand in for us. Her critical lyric examines its own modus operandi and although armed with impeccable word choices peppered with wry wit, she often threatens to throw it all away and let danger take the high road. —Charles Borkhuis$16.00 -
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Apollo: A Conceptual Poem by Geoffrey Gatza : Based upon the ballet by Igor Stravinsky
Poetry, SuperstarsAt its heart, this book is about Marcel Duchamp but it is also about chess. It was thought for a long while that Marcel Duchamp gave up art to play professional chess. However, this was found to be not true with the revelation of his last major artwork, Étant donnés.$35.00 -
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Apparition Poems by Adam Fieled
PoetryAdam Fieled is a poet based in Philadelphia.$16.00 -
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archipelago counterpoint by Marcia Arrieta
PoetryMarcia Arrieta’s archipelago counterpoint points to language associated with delicate inventiveness—a brand of language providing whispering emblems, musical identities, and clarity of affirmed environment….Precise, reliable appreciation engages the reader and provides context toward a thoughtful devotion to expanding understanding. —Felino A. Soriano$16.00 -
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Armored Elevator By Ryan Daley
PoetryRyan Daley is a dedicated dodgem of syntax. He is a multi kulti Mayan in Newark whose wit’s as Pan-American as any Jose O’Shay’s. He knows dystopias no longer wash unless in global neo-glot soup spracht. Armored Elevator is one of the best—certainly the edgiest—first books I’ve read in quite awhile. –Michael Gizzi$16.00 -
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Around the day in 80 worlds By Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Poetry, SuperstarsAround each day, she flies her rounds— tempestuous. DuPlessis revels in travel and records what unravels in one’s habits of attention when all the elsewheres return us to a home we are about to lose. “What is the true story of any time? / any itinerary?/ and of its traveling sorrows?” I encounter so many moments of startling honesty— each poem is a face as pert as day and as wild as night, looking up, from a labyrinth of drafts. —Divya Victor$16.00 -
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ARTIFICIAL LIFE by Michael Gessner
Poetry“Artificial Life is brilliantly wrought and blindingly brilliant. Gessner is second to none. Count him, along with Ashbery and Ammons, among the most stunning intellectual poets of the twentieth century—and into the twenty-first.” —John Dolis
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As 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 -
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Astrometry Orgonon by Mark Lamoureux
PoetryThe map of the heavens has long been the place where humanity has immortalized those narratives that are instructive to its understanding of the universe. The named celestial bodies represent a repository of information from diverse cultures, both ancient and modern. Each poem in this volume bears the name of the brightest named star of every visible constellation from both hemispheres.$16.00 -
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asymptotic lover//thermodynamic vents by Julia Hastain aka j/j hastain
PoetryThis book, which is unlike anything that has ever been seen before, brings something with it from the under-parts of sensation. This is the definition of vibration, of a book as the only possible membrane, the only future for a body so new it's still forming: j/j hastain gives us this. —Bhanu Kapil$16.00 -
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At the Fair by Tom Clark
PoetryRemembering his first glimmers of vocation as a boy in power-charged mid-century Chicago, Tom Clark has given us some of the most beautiful American Poems that I know. At the Fair is the work of a living master. —Aram Saroyan$16.00 -
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atboalgfpopasasbifl: Irritations, Excrement & Wipes by Jared Schickling
PoetryJared Schickling’s latest collection—comprised of hybrid genre prose, footnotes, erasures, and struck-through lines of verse—engages compelling questions about the relationship between literary criticism and artistic practice: Is it possible for creative and critical discourses to coexist within the same rhetorical space? Can the literary arts facilitate unique—and even revolutionary—contributions to theoretical conversations? To what extent is every poem an act of deconstruction, a revision of the writing that came before one’s own? —Kristina Marie Darling$16.00 -
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Atom Parlor by Joseph Bienvenu
PoetryExuberant as a blizzard, individual as a snowflake, Joseph Bienvenu gives us this book with the generosity of yahoo and wail. In Atom Parlor's hooting forest is a beating heart, crying out for connection, vulnerable, human, demonstrative of an extraordinary associational speed, the imagination always in triumph, in celebration as well as sorrow, dire and slapstick, and, dare I say, fun. —Dean Young -
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Autobiography of a Stutterer by Joseph Cooper
PoetryJoseph S. Cooper writes where the body does not exactly say yes but where it wants something else. By this I mean the bodies he is making are profoundly wild: propelled by phonetic imperatives and breaks in the deep structure that could be described as aberrant, but which I prefer to think of as delicious. -Bhanu Kapil$16.00 -
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Automatic Zygote by Jonathan Huey
Poetry“Jonathan Huey has a terrific eye for detail. The tender mercies of urban wildlife, the sweeping implications of history – and he does not miss that trash in the creek or those cops in the alley –amid it all the rangy, slightly bemused song of the poet.” Andrew Schelling$16.00 -
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A’S VISUALITY by Anne Gorrick
PoetryThis is the work of a highly-engaged intelligence, and Gorrick has made her own system by moving through the world with the given that this, too, is poetry. Here, it is color— not darkness— that surrounds us. What a beautiful place she has made. —Carolyn Guinzio$16.00 -
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Babies 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 -
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Bachelor 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$20.00 -
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Back 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 -
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Back Principles: a book of spiritual fatigue by Stephen Bett
PoetryLike all Stephen Bett’s recent books, his 22nd, Back Principles: a book of spiritual fatigue, is a serial poem, “minimalist” in its poetics, and subtle enough to sustain repeated readings. The title is self-explanatory: poems journeying between poles, searching out the buddha and the christ. There are no (cheap) instant gratification I found its here. There never could be of course; it’s all journey, all the time.$16.00 -
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Biennial: Poems by Michael Joyce
Poetry, Superstarsthese poems split the seconds of daily life into splinters that, with time, catch the light —Charles Bernstein$16.00 -
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Big Bad Asterisk* by Carlo Matos
PoetryBig Bad Asterisk* is a sequence of prose poems that entangles the reader in a narrative of human oddity and originality. Welcome to the family where the father uses a machete on the hedges, the great uncle is lost hunting trolls, the only way to talk to the grandfather is through the grandmother and the baby’s spoon is a bone. —Susan Yount$16.00 -
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Big Bright Sun by Nate Pritts
PoetryHis poems quietly say disquieting things, carefully, patiently, for the love of poetry. —Dara Wier$16.00 -
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BIG ENERGY POETS: ECOPOETRY THINKS CLIMATE CHANGE
Poetry, SuperstarsBig Energy Poets: Ecopoetry Thinks Climate Change, is more than another book on climate change, these disparate authors are collectively voices in the same struggle: How to ensure the planet’s survival, where planet and body (human or otherwise) are not separate but synonymous, are inextricably tied. There is a necessary insistence in this anthology on the body politic being the earth’s politic.$18.00 -
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Birds Of Tifft by Jonathan Skinner
PoetryAt once rigorous and casual, conceptual and hilarious, Birds of Tifft offers us a tour through a nature preserve reclaimed from industry. Sometimes our guide reads Tifft like an old-school naturalist, identifying flora and fauna and noting the weather; sometimes he reads it like a contemporary poet, delighting in the visual beauties and ethical ironies of a post-industrial landscape. Ultimately, however, our guide demonstrates that ecopoetics gains its power from inhabiting both positions at once. By neither idealizing nature nor demonizing industry, he shows us our own equal participation in both, and thereby animates a dialectic between “the bittern and the train/the tulip and the dump.” —Brian Teare$16.00 -
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Black 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 -
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Black Lines on Terracotta by Terry Van Vliet
PoetryIn a voice daring and decorous, Terry Van Vliet celebrates Apollonian beauty and erotic desire. He uses poets and painters who have long fascinated him as guides for exploring these states. Other poems are more autobiographical. Family, friends, and the vivid characters that abound in Los Angeles, London, or Paris become his subjects. —Katharine A. Daly$16.00 -
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BLAME FAULT MOUNTAIN by Spencer Selby
PoetryThese texts exude a para-oulipean vibe of disinterested construction, yet possess an almost cinematic drive wherein plot twist and paranoia dance together wearing the tragicomic masks of ancient theater, but the masks are screens upon which dance the latency and explication of semiotics as romance. —Lanny Quarles$16.00 -
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Blood Will Tell by Craig Paulenich
PoetryThese are shrewd meditations on what remains in the cold shadow of the American rust belt. —Dorothy Barresi$16.00 -
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Boombox Serenade by Joey Nicoletti
PoetryIn the title poem, the speaker lists the songs to be played at his funeral and the friends to whom they’re dedicated; the resulting poem, and the collection as a whole, is a catalog of love and human connection, a “playlist of gratitude.” —Juliana Gray$16.00 -
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Brains Scream at Night by Paul Sutton
Poetry"Paul Sutton has trudged through the fuggy fen of all that is English, wiped his boots on a sheaf of paper, bound it and titled it *Brains Scream at Night*." —Aaron Belz$16.00 -
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Brushes With by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetrySome facts: there is ""white residue"" on a windowsill. In a novel on the brink of being written, someone walks out the door then reappears on the edge of a lake. To ""recollect."" To ""glide."" To ""wake up."" In a work that is reminiscent of Jenny Boully's The Body -- a blankness accompanied by footnotes -- Darling's Brushes with performs a narrative of sexual betrayal and peculiar [excruciating] loss with a delicate and pressing hand. —Bhanu Kapil$16.00 -
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Byron in Baghdad by Mike Smith
PoetryHow is it Shelley truly did believe that Byron's Don Juan would be the great poem of its time? How is it that satire and pastiche become the most durable monuments to our romance? to our romance of ourselves and of our aspirations? With Byron in Baghdad, Mike Smith has, against all the odds and against all the currents of our present depravity, written a work of beautiful renunciation. Chaste and chastening, these poems are pure. Their urgency will only increase over time. —Donald Revell$16.00 -
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CALL THE CATASTROPHISTS by Krystal Languell
PoetryWhat then is a catastrophist? In the cosmography of this incredible first volume, she is a mobile force that screams: There is plenty to say, say it, say it! In the case where it is the critical reality of the daily life of a person, a thinking person, a person with a sex that is not one, with a class not a cache, who bumps against reality being easily bruised, and doing it again, and saying so. Krystal Languell reinscribes poetry to its rightful spot where we begin, and keep beginning, inside our catastrophe, where it lives. —Rachel Levitsky$16.00 -
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camera obscura by erica lewis
Poetryerica lewis’s camera obscura is a stunning meditation on the relationship between things in the world and our perception of them. Beginning with a photograph “that made me think about how time and the constant mutability of everything is . . . the underlying story of all the stories we write,” her words show us – indeed literally see – how “the object exists outside us without our taking part in it”; how “to bring the picture into focus”; how “an image sparks another image” ... —Stephen Ratcliffe$16.00 -
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Canyonesque by Tom Clark
Poetry, Superstars[Clark] really flows and gambles and plays it loose. I like his guts... He's the raw gnawing end of the moon. — Charles Bukowski$16.00 -
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Celluloid Salutations by Elizabeth Block
PoetryIt's all here: love, work, child. And the writing. Mainly the writing. It takes over all these other things and yet it is built out of all these things. This is how Elizabeth Block erases Elizabeth Block, as one poem claims. She does this automatically, animalistically, while wailing forward, gracefully and with improvisation. —Juliana Spahr$16.00 -
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Chaperons of a Lost Poet by John Vick
PoetryThis book by John Vick is fearless. —-Valerie Fox$16.00 -
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Cheltenham by Adam Fieled
PoetryO this is fierce writing, dirty & sweaty, rain-drenched& squalid, caught out in the back seats of parked cars, all that mess of actual young lives – Adam Fieled’s poetry moves with & through all this, carefully recording and arranging, natural history notes of the actual ecosystem so many of us live or lived within, savage, implacable and there on its own terms. —Peter Philpott$16.00 -
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Chimes by Adam Fieled
PoetryAt times so painful and lovely and fragile that Chimes made my mind's eyes weep. My body's eyes, however, refused to cry as they did not want to stop reading-- Chimes paradoxically is a page-turner even as the words compel you to linger on each page. Chimes is one of the most moving autobiographies I've read--actually, language's beauty makes it irrelevant whether this is fiction or non-fiction; its authenticity is felt to be true. —Eileen Tabios$16.00 -
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Circles Matter by Brian Lucas
PoetryA triple play. Brian Lucas— painter, poet, musician—eye, heart, mind. Written with a sense of unfolding mystery, his voice on the page is sure in its tone, the ongoing quest and questioning is awake with profound and restless detail. Out of the ballpark. I await more. — David Meltzer$16.00 -
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CIRCULAR DESCENT by Raymond L. Bianchi
PoetryAt the dangerous intersection of Liberty and Empire, Raymond Bianchi breaks the sound barrier. These “multi-colored sequences” are up to date heart-breaking cubistic international songs in “real time,” trafficking in corporate corruption and working people, desire and everyday life. This is wild and honest work. — PETER GIZZI$16.00 -
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City Bird: Selected Poems (1991 – 2009) by Millie Niss Edited by Martha Deed
PoetryMillie Niss draws from so many different poetic influences and writes in so many different tones – wistful, sneaky, sincere, outraged, outrageous, sweet and funny and snide – that it makes me nearly dizzy. This is a wonderful, whimsical compendium of a mind on fire, devoted to poetry, mad for malarkey. In rants, e-mails, poetic forms, collaborations, school notebooks, mock epics, found text, imitations, concrete poetry and intercepted letters, Millie calls it like it is and we are so lucky for it! —Kazim Ali$18.00 -
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CLOUD / RIDGE by Stephen Ratcliffe
Poetry, SuperstarsStephen Ratcliffe is in his blue or green or yellow or mauve or brick-red or phthalocyanine period. That is, the serene repetitive seriousness of the shapes and colors of his work, like that of the late style of a great painter, who’s painting the same things, day after day, week after week, month after month, year by year (book by book) until what’s depicted, though absolutely precise and completely clear (located in space without exaggeration or attitude), modulates in color, picture by picture and day by day, until it disappears into its own blended shadings, becoming everything at once–and nothing. —Norman Fischer$22.00 -
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Cloud of Witnesses by Linda Norton
Critical Thinking, New Releases, PoetryLike 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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Color Me White by Kevin Thurston, Illustrations by Mickey Harmon
PoetryColor Me White focuses on straight white males, and what is often called toxic masculinity—a topic only aggravated by the current political climate.$20.00 -
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COMMA FORK / MOVING PARTS by Ted Greenwald
Poetry, SuperstarsThrilled to be writing this blurb because I love Ted Greenwald's poetry. It is extraordinary lifelike in its interlocking pattern and surprise. I mean like life, if life were a made thing, a homemade pinwheel blown askew and ridden to the front-stoop carnival where your friends work and you can talk about how your mouth feels when you fill pronouns from the dictionary. And how you don't need the dictionary. Rearrange. The world's so modular! Set free for a minute. — Cathy Wagner$18.00 -
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Complete Dark Shadows [of My Childhood] by Tony Trigilio
PoetryBarnabas Collins, kitsch vampire but source of poet Tony Trigilio’s childhood nightmares, rises from his casket in the first sentence of this intrepid fever chart of a poem. Trigilio manages to create a riveting two-fold narrative—personal and TV-screen ekphrastic—out of piecemeal sentences (one per episode) that honor the most unlikely of poetic subjects: a cheaply produced, blooper-ridden, gothic-horror soap opera. —David Trinidad$16.00 -
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COMPOS(T) MENTIS by Aaron Apps
PoetryKnuckles digging in the knee and not knowing it, while reading! To be disturbed and to be reminded of something you never quite knew. To be reminded and made to know that memory a new way, this is the way Aaron Apps gives it. Morphine drip as the scalpel tears open the new machine. —CA Conrad$16.00 -
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Compulsive Words by Michael Ruby
PoetryReading the poems in Compulsive Words is like taking a hard drug. —Aaron Kiely$16.00 -
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Continental Drifts by Cheryl Pallant
PoetryContinental Drifts is Pallant’s most unwieldy, sprawling, cosmic, and best book yet. It is far more tightly woven than Uncommon Grammar Cloth, and stiller than Into Stillness. What really separates this book, though, is how engaged it is (though tacitly and subtly) with the current historical/ecological moment. Basically it continues Pallant’s signature hermetic style but, just under a language that sparks with reference, resides a deeply cutting commentary on postmodern human existence in the world.$16.00 -
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Contingencies 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 -
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Counting Sheep Till Doomsday by Carlo Matos
PoetryCarlo Matos offers us original, honest, highly charged poetry with mature, hard-won insights and a gift for language. I recommend Counting Sheep Till Doomsday to anyone interested in modern poetry. —Simon Perchik$16.00 -
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Cracked Altimeter by Joe Milford
PoetryHere are multitudes. In Joe Milford’s hell-bent Cracked Altimeter, “All the names of Heaven/become a universal phonetic.” I’m grateful for his effusiveness; these hexed poems dispense grace enough to make even the warped and wayward begin to see again, and to believe. —Steve Langan$16.00 -
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Crying Shame by Jeffrey Morgan
PoetryMorgan’s gaze is always up-tunnel, if you know what I mean; the power’s in Morgan’s ability to look and look and look. No one—neither rescuer nor castaway, not commuter, not gentle or base reader—walks away whole from Crying Shame. —C. S. Giscombe$16.00 -
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CUNTIONARY/ Repent at Your Leisure (or The Folklore of Hell) by Benjamin L. Perez
PoetryFrom its title onward, Ben Perez’s fast, fresh fore(word)play aims to say “what oft was thought but ne’er so [politically uncorrectly] expressed.” This book is bound to ruffle some feathers—not for the faint of heart, denizens of “official verse culture” are hereby advised to enter at your own risk. — Stephen Ratcliffe$16.00 -
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Dangerous Things to Please a Girl by Travis Cebula
PoetryA man wanders through Paris. A man wanders through Eliot. Eliot wanders through Paris. Paris wanders through the man. And, not surprisingly, it all comes out as a love letter. Though addressed to a missing person, these poems have no absence about them at all. Instead, built of the fine detail of daily life, they exude a vivid presence that coalesces into a richly nuanced sense of place, of place-as-lived. And it’s a good life. And an utterly delightful book. —Cole Swensen$16.00 -
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DATA by Seth Abramson
Poetry, SuperstarsBROWN-EYED POLISH 5’8.602” MASSHOLE FLATFOOTED HAIRY SKIN-TAGGED RUSSIAN 227 POUNDS BADGER FAN DARTMOUTH ’98 BROWN-HAIRED NEAR-SIGHTED JEWISH DANIEL BOOK REVIEWER AGNOSTIC LITHUANIAN ATTORNEY DEMOCRAT GAG REFLEX BEARDED CUP-EARRED COWLICK BALDING FACIAL DEFORMITY PALE 5.6” LONG BARITONE POET BULB-NOSED CIRCUMCISED SLOPE-SHOULDERED IOWA WRITERS WORKSHOP ’09$16.00 -
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Dead Letters by Alan May
PoetryPart Seuss, part Stein, part Brothers (very) Grimm, Dead Letters arrives in a lively blaze of highly accomplished play marking Alan May's own arrival into the quirky exactitude of his peculiarly fine poetry. —Hank Lazer
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Dead Ringer by Charles Borkhuis
PoetryThere are no illusions in the world of Charles Borkhuis. This is life without eyelids, and what we see is too disquieting for our own good, yet we can't look away. It's like film noir, whose frisson is a bad dream. Borkhuis’ work, though, is the zero hour. —Burt Kimmelman$16.00 -
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DEAR BEAST LOVELINESS by Timothy J. Myers
PoetryThese meditations on the blessed carcass move us from bed nest to city street, from cellular self to divine sensation. How do we humans recognize who we are in Vietnam, in Rwanda, on a back porch where rain softly falls? Through the body, says Myers, through the body. —Rebekah Bloyd$16.00 -
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Dear Darwish by Morani Kornberg-Weiss
PoetryThe attempt at any kind of dialogue in a world in which people try to protect themselves with silence or/and blasts of self-righteousness is in itself a painful task. With the possibilities of actual communication remote yet imperative, anaphora is a last-ditch tactic. Listen to me and I will be able to understand myself, declares Morani Kornberg-Weiss. —Karen Alkalay-Gut$16.00 -
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Dear You: A Memoir with Poems by Wade Stevenson
PoetryI enjoyed reading DEAR YOU. I admire how the poems pop off the page with a stinging emotional power. HER BREATH IS NOT MINE is a great way to begin this book. —Geoffrey Gatza$16.00 -
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declivities by Irene Koronas
PoetrySiphoning from a trajectory of experimental literature and poetics from Dadaism to Algorithmics and beyond, the Koronas grammaton is fashioned from a panerotism reconciling the disequilibrium encoded within the hyperlinks of a retromanic pleroma and a feminine clinamen. By excavating the figurations of Rimbaud, Dickinson, de Sade, Bataille and many au courant experimentalists, declivities relegates identity and gender to funerary antiques in a reliquary. —Daniel Y. Harris$16.00 -
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Delaware Memoranda by Richard Owens
PoetryDelaware Memoranda is a lush crosscurrent marked by history's flicker and memory's flame. In these buoyant illuminations, language's intricate shadows and solids reveal and carve at transformations in etymology to create a dialogic swerve that is the person, that is the conversation, that can neither be nor step in the same river twice. This book is tougher than any blurb. —Kyle Schlesinger$16.00 -
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Departed Quantities: (A) Quantum Epic by John Dolis
PoetryIn Departed Quantities: (A) Quantum Epic, John Dolis leads us by candlelight down into the rough basement of language, where a “painter in the painting paints / a painting of a painting in the dark.” Dolis’s richly allusive, multivocal language for vision collapses the distance between self and other “such that human being might be more / than we deserve, though infinitely less / than we can dream.” —Tony Trigilio$16.00 -
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Derrida’s In/Voice by Chris Tysh
PoetryThere is immense talent here — Chris Tysh just gets better and better. With multiple registers and citational energy, the archive is exploded and transformed: we find references to poetry, film, revolution, politics, and philosophy, all effortlessly braided and made dynamic as they speak to one another. With perfectly pitched music, and impeccable form, Derrida’s In/Voice discloses and complicates the knotted conversation between hard and soft power. It’s an awesome book. — Peter Gizzi$16.00 -
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Descent of the Dolls Part I by Jeffery Conway, Gillian McCain, and David Trinidad
Poetry, SuperstarsDante’s Inferno meets the 1967 movie Valley of the Dolls in this collaborative descent into a Hollywood camp classic. Over ten years in the writing, the first installment of this epic poetic conversation sees poets Jeffery Conway, Gillian McCain, and David Trinidad pair up with their respective Virgil-esque guides: Frank O’Hara, Sharon Tate, and Anne Sexton. Our three poets follow the film’s heroines—Anne, Neely, and Jennifer—backstage into the murky circles of Showbiz and PoBiz. Down, down, down they go. Anything can happen: Allen Ginsberg kicks a talented poet out of the show, Joan Crawford makes a drunken visitation, the heads of ambitious M.F.A. poetry students roll!$18.00 -
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Devil-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 -
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Die Die Dinosaur by Michael Sikkema
PoetryCandy and rust abound in Michael Sikkema's new collection of poems. Die Die Dinosaur is a series of short psychobilly stanzas that run from humorous to poignant and across the growth and decay of both the natural and man-made worlds. This book looks to the future and its possibilities even if that possibility is probably our own extinction. —Kenyataa JP Garcia$16.00 -
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Directed by Lilly Obscure by Dana Curtis
New Releases, PoetryThis book is full of visionary poetics, of poems which stare into various sorts of suns and films and pseudo-biographies; it is full of lenses, like scattered raindrops on windshields. But essentially it is a mad dance with imagination and fear and eros and error. —Bin Ramke,$18.00 -
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Disapparitions by Joseph Harrington
New Releases, PoetryJoseph Harrington is a maestro of hybrid form. His latest book, Disapparitions, collages politically urgent poetry and prose with an array of sampled and remixed voices that speak from the ghost-margins of our historical moment. —Tony Trigilio$18.00 -
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Disappearing Address by Simone Muench and Philip Jenks
Poetryhere’s wit here — “Dear Nothing” begins “why’d you have to cut out & make everything come back,” “Dear Obtuse” begins “Be straight with me” — but the best of the poems revel in novel images and a diction for which the only possible term is “hothouse gorgeous.” —Robert Archambeau
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Disparate Magnets by Nico Vassilakis
PoetryDisparate Magnets presents the scintillating variables of time and its complex philosophical relationship with experiential space. Your guide is the inimitable Nico Vassilakis who cajoles, beckons and posits. The coordinates are pulsations of music, staccato intensities—syntax is unraveled in each set. Morton Feldman floats through this work as the simultaneities build. I feel the glee of ontological recognition reading his book. —Brenda Iijima$16.00 -
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Distance by Tom Clark
Poetry, Superstars"One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and cliché-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and about to go to sleep, is because there aren't a thousand Tom Clarks. If I were writing a prescription right now, you know, if I had my shiny thing here, a stethoscope around my neck, that's the prescription I'd write. Take one thousand Tom Clarks before going to bed.” —Edward Dorn$16.00 -
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DISTANTS by Gordon Hadfield
PoetryBefore a star signified a brilliant point in infinite expanse, it marked the boundary; it marked the cosmic wall. Galileo knocked that wall over with his eye. But as Gordon Hadfield acutely shows, the bricks from one wall knocked over are recollected, and put to use again, keeping out what isn't allowed in, and keeping in what isn't allowed out. The human world repeats the cosmic one. But no boundary fully holds. —Dan Beachy-Quick$16.00 -
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Doggerel for the Masses: A Post-Scandal BlazeVOX Booke by Kent Johnson
Poetry, SuperstarsHelen Vendler recently referred (letting off not a little pent-up steam) to the “Mickey-Mouse-Ears avant-gardism of U.S. Conceptual Poetry.” Well, here’s a riposte to that, Dame Helen: Because Craig Dworkin’s Doggerel for the Masses (“by” Kent Johnson!) wears the golden helmet of Achilles, whose antennae listening-mechanisms shoot into the heavens beyond Pluto. Hold onto your Hats, Boys and Girls; it’s going to be a wild ride! —Kenneth Goldsmith$16.00 -
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Dolphin Aria/Limited Hours: A Love Song by Luke McMullan
PoetryLuke McMullan is prising the nails out of the lyric and holding it ethically accountable for any passivity that might lurk in its corridors. This is a call to occupy, to resist the feasting and destruction. As 'we all dance the liberty frogmarch', he reprocesses the responsibilities of speculating and creating the spectacle of consumer lives. What stuns in this sequence is the performative quality of the work as it negotiates subtle moments of utterance and gesture. — John Kinsella$12.00 -
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Domestic Uncertainties by Leah Umansky
PoetryThe language slips, shifts, recalibrates and the world, shaken, is quietly remade, again and again before our eyes in this lovely, sorrowing and finally transformative book. Leah Umansky is to be congratulated for her sensitive, nuanced, consoling and deeply honest sojourn on the page. —Carole Maso$16.00 -
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Dominus by Tiffany Troy
New Releases, PoetryDominus is as insistent on justice as it is baffled by its own hope, and its indomitable, distinctive voice has a power unlike that of any debut collection I’ve ever read, or of any book in recent memory. — TIMOTHY DONNELLY$18.00 -
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Down Stranger Roads by Roger Craik
PoetryNo one sounds like Roger Craik. His voice, a beguilingly cosmopolitan mix of British purebred and American mutt, is the well-stamped passport he shows at border crossings from Ashtabula to Auschwitz, from Kent State to Krakow, from Amsterdam to the far-flung outposts of the human heart. This poet is most at home when far from home, prowling the shrapneled boondocks and scrap yards of Cold War history. —George B. Bilger$16.00 -
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Drink by Laura Madeline Wiseman
PoetryI am reminded how poetry can save us, how, in the hands of such a talented writer as Wiseman, it can raise us from the depths to a cove of still water where, perhaps, who knows, the mermaids are. —Alice Friman$16.00 -
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Drink Me by Mary Kasimor
PoetryThese poems are full of “voices coming from small places / an acorn.” The result is a startling reorientation in which language and meaning are embodied and re-imbibed: “wholly is a word/you can get your mouth a/round.” These poems are a brilliant and necessary tonic. —Jonathan Minto$16.00 -
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DRIZZLE POCKET by Tim Roberts
PoetryThere’s an hallucinatory freedom to this tour-de-force of sustained imagination. It’s full of a freshness, an airiness, and at the same time a relentlessness that speaks to Roberts’s careful blending of compassion and determination. This is a book with a social, spiritual, and philosophical plan, and yet they’re handled so subtly that we’re not really aware of them until we put the book down, changed. Tim Roberts is doing something brand-new here—and doing it extremely well. —COLE SWENSEN
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E P I L O G U E by Craig Watson, edited by Ted Pearson
New Releases, PoetryEpilogue is a brilliant collection of Craig Watson’s late-stage poetry. As such, it signals neither harmony nor resolution, but intransigence, difficulty, and unresolved conflict. This dazzling, posthumous work admits the reader into a shimmering, luminous present. —Kit Robinson$18.00 -
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eaQ Oor by Andy Martrich
PoetryMartrich presents an elusive autobiographical postcard of metadata alongside thickly painted and obscured image-alphabet-code, simultaneously and beautifully quotidian, inherited, catalogued, queried, found, and personal. —Mel Nichols
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Echo Park by Christine Hamm
PoetryFrom ""pink-spangled bikinis"" to ""your mother's stolen perfume,"" Christine Hamm's Echo Park is littered with the strange, sexy detritus of life, gorgeous life. —Kate Durbin$16.00 -
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Ekstasis by Peter Valente and Kevin Killian
Poetry, SuperstarsKevin Killian and Peter Valente’s haunting collaboration Ekstasis comes on like one of those dark dreams you can’t seem to shake – it’s memory and sensations still lingering long after you’ve awoken. —Michael Salerno, artist, filmmaker, and publisher.$22.00 -
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Elemental Perceptions: A Panorama by Sophie Sills
PoetryIts epigraph from Oppen (“The flaw, the gap which is the aware of being, tho it is within it. The flaw on which being presses”) suggests the epistemological concern at the center of Sophie Sills’ Elemental Perceptions: A Panorama: seeing/hearing things and events in the world, how can we know what’s really ‘there’ – that being “with a pulse . . . without a heartbeat . . . [which] is unknown,” yet which seems to be “aware” of us, seems to “press” against us. —Stephen Ratcliffe
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Embankments | Outtakes | Uppercuts by Richard Owens
PoetryEmbankments | Outtakes | Uppercuts brings together three discrete constellations of divers lyric constructions that testify with alacritas to the bullbaiting, cockfighting and bear beating of the present moment.$16.00 -
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Emotional Support Peacock by Nada Gordon
New Releases, PoetryIn spirit closer to the wild geese than the peacock, Nada Gordon brings together a panoply of voices, including the squawk, the screech, the whisper, the whistle, all of which come together—finally, ultimately—and in language both harsh and exciting, to announce our place in the family of things. One cannot but feel uplifted into the Rapture.—Diana Fisher$18.00 -
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Endless Spectator, The Screens Suite by Jesse Damiani
PoetryIn an ironic twist, there are no spectators in Endless Spectator. The mere act of looking involves you, and just like on the internet, the act of looking can be transgressive, if not towards the content, but towards yourself. Through its visual bewilderment, Endless Spectator makes you realize that the cacophony of the internet is alive and pulsing, and you’ve already been consumed by it.$22.00 -
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Eros & (Fill in the Blank) by Charles Freeland
PoetryCharles Freeland’s poetic voice is that rarity of philosophical posits intertwined with a language of emotional accord. Eros & (Fill in the Blank) contains poetry of invention, reinvention, musical decency drawing the reader into Freeland’s specialized poetic language. — Felino A. Soriano$16.00 -
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Evening Train by Tom Clark
Poetry, SuperstarsIn Evening Train we witness people on a bus, a window in the night, greenery, a bird on its perch—and then at the center of this world, something nameless seems to open. It’s hard to say just what happens, other than the words of each poem itself. But that isn’t quite right. It’s as if the words are a way for the poet to inscribe silence. You turn the page, wondering, and it arrives again—something quite beyond what is told. Tom Clark is a master. —Aram Saroyan$16.00 -
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Every Strange Meridian by Todd Romanowski
PoetryIntensely lyric, often surreal, the poems in Every Strange Meridian cast a spell that is at once dangerous and beautiful. —Joan Houlihan$16.00 -
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Everything Seems Significant by Jan Bottiglieri
Poetry“Everything Seems Significant sails and embraces... such a deep, kaleidoscopic dive it takes. This is brilliant, inspired work. So much has been written about Blade Runner, but none of it penetrates like this. The spell of it all is distilled and caught in the sly, prescient grip of Bottiglieri's poems.” —Hampton Fancher$16.00 -
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Everything Turns On A Delicate Measure by Maureen Owen
New Releases, Poetry, SuperstarsWhat is the restless energized measure for an expanding universe? Maureen Owen is one of our most exploratory poet inventors whose sound and sense insure what’s hidden from view gets more mysterious. ... This book is a reason to celebrate and continue. —Anne Waldman$18.00 -
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Excentrica: Notes on the Text by Steven C Reese
PoetryIt’s a rare poet who can look the muse in the eye and speak through or with her as Reese has done in this fragmentary and insightful collection, which reads both as a form of exegesis, literary criticism and dialogue, as well as a love poem to literature. It is at once a beautiful composition in its own right, and an illumination of the magic and mystery of composing verse, addressing the poets’ many sources of influence and inspiration. —Nin Andrews$16.00 -
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face blindness by Megan A. Volpert
PoetryMegan A. Volpert's full-length debut startles and spirits us through the invisible and daring detritus of dialogue and story, NYC and Normal, Illinois, "name pong poetry" and "copyright infringement," letters laced with love for John Yau and Roland Barthes, phantasmagoria and prosopagnosia, fecund cullings from the minds of Jacques Derrida and Friedrich Nietzsche, ambling pathos and anxious heart, and everything in between.—Amy King$16.00 -
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Faceless Names – Two Books of Letters by Anna Elena Eyre
PoetryRead this book in the dark, with a flashlight. Read this book when you are open, really open to the world, to your world, to language and rain. Anna Elena Eyre writes magnificent poems, poems that breathe and sing and imagine and paint. I am very grateful to her. —Joseph Lease$16.00 -
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Failure Lyric by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryKristina Marie Darling gives us a narrative in images both surreal and everyday that recur and accrete to evoke a sense of deep and irrevocable loss. It's impossible to read without feeling similarly moved. —Janet Holmes$16.00 -
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FAKE NEWS POEMS by Martin Ott
Poetry“Martin Ott collects clickbait headlines and transmutes them into lyric truths.” —Jesse Walker$16.00 -
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Fantastic Caryatids, by Anne Waldman and Vincent Katz
Poetry, SuperstarsFantastic Caryatids, by Anne Waldman & Vincent Katz, is a lush, vivid and spectacular reading/album/book of poetry, conversation and photographs. Note that the subtitle is A Conversation with Art. The "with" has the particularities of city, specificities of the senses, of memories, of an ethos whose upper limit is friendship, companionship. It is a model, a remarkable “alternative version of how to be alive.” (Anne Waldman) Dynamic, urbane, intimate, “the occasion of these ruses” (Frank O’Hara) is synergy from chronos to kairos. —Norma Cole$18.00 -
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Feeling for the Ground by Tom Clark
Poetry, Superstars"Pretty much exactly like Tom Thumb's Blues, Mr. Clark goes on as ever letting his sensibility seep like rain through all the great American vernacular sites — film noir, baseball, the shore, dreams — and the result is a sequence of utterances that feel both timeless and inexhaustibly resonant." —Jonathan Lethem$16.00 -
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Field of Wanting By Wanda Phipps
PoetryField of Wanting is a charged, radically honest book of poems by a writer/performer who intervenes on many fields of desire with zest and panache. She tells it like it is, with wit and a touch of irony. –Anne Waldman$16.00 -
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field recordings of mind in morning | poems: hank lazer music: holland hopson
New Releases, PoetryIn Lazer, we find a poetic soul patient as a rice counter, vigilant as a firefighter, and visionary as a prophet. —Yunte Huang on COVID19 SUTRAS$16.00 -
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Field Work Notes, Songs, Poems 1997-2010 by David Hadbawnik
PoetryIn San Francisco,. Austin and Buffalo a chiel’s among ye taking notes. David Hadbawnik like James Boswell has a knack for capturing all the things we wish we had said, as well as the street talk which shows up our culture as indescribably banal and fertile. —Kevin Killian$16.00 -
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Finger ExOrcised by Joe Amato
PoetryAmato gives us irrepressible ruminations, flash narratives, verbal collages. At times they seem to be struggling to rise off the printed page into our simulated 3D, stereo, holograph world, but then they recoil from it with speedy wit and righteous indignation, in a weave of rhetorics designed to ward off the 21st century's demons. —Anselm Hollo -
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Fire For Thought by Reed Bye
Poetry, SuperstarsReed Bye's meditations on meditation open out into lovely Hopkinsesque melodies. There's a clarity here spawned from questions about inside and outside, mind and body, and who we are as humans in our landscapes. —Lisa Jarnot$16.00 -
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First Baby Poems by Anne Waldman with Collages by George Schneeman
Poetry, SuperstarsWith her warm subtle fleshy FIRST BABY POEMS Waldman creates an infant power that did not exist before in her words. These poems are complex joyful bioalchemy. —Michael McClure$18.00 -
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Five Sequences For The Country At Night by Mike Perrow
PoetryMike Perrow’s highly-anticipated book of poems is rich in its evocations of landscape and skyscape. His meditative voice is inflected with southern accents that linger and resonate. —Forrest Gander$16.00 -
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Flay, a book of mu by Caty Sporleder
PoetryWith the visceral precision of an anatomical textbook, Caty Sporleder peels back “dead stringencies”—Sylvia Plath's term, from “Ariel”—of language, desire, and narrative expectation. —Dodie Bellamy$16.00 -
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FLUTES AND TOMATOES A MEMOIR WITH POEMS by Wade Stevenson
Poetry“Flutes and Tomatoes” by Wade Stevenson is a compelling story of survival, love and resilience in the face of loss. Filled with a crackling energy these poems describe self-discovery, worldly discovery, and the discovery of the mutability of time that shapes the world through the ever-distancing, ever expanding waves of disorder and randomness that are left behind after the death of a loved one.$16.00 -
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FLUX by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa
PoetryGive moving a chance! Perhaps part Acker, perhaps part Ono, FLUX features language agent Joritz-Nakagawa as she writes her way out of a self-torn, flower-torn, money-torn zone . . . —MICHAEL FARRELL$16.00 -
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Footnotes To Algebra Uncollected Poems 1995-2009 by Eileen Tabios
PoetryJack Kerouac wrote, “Vision is deception.” Eileen Tabios’ version goes like this: “Go forth and prettily miscalculate.” —Jeffrey Cyphers Wright$18.00 -
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For Days by Adam Strauss
PoetryOf For Days Adam Strauss writes that these poems record “what happens when ongoingness, dailiness, is mixed with highly wrought/overdetermining elements, and hence the use (abuse?) of the pantoum, sonnets, and terza rima.” That’s a fair description, but what’s missing in that little modus operandi but present in the work itself is the music of alliteration, assonance and rhyme schemes falling apart under the pressure of faux pedestrianism. —Tyrone Williams$16.00 -
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For Love by Jared Schickling
PoetryJared Schickling makes no bones about his intent. Cribbing the title of one of the more famous books of poetry in the late twentieth century, Robert Creeley’s For Love, Schickling reorients it with the subtitle, (the order of the echoes), and sets out to rewrite love in a context where the lover becomes “the grape of my obscene lip.” —Michael Boughn$20.00 -
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For To by Skip Fox
PoetrySpleen is a bulwark against pessismism , says Walter Benjamin in an essay on Baudelaire. Baudelaire was no pessimist. Neither is Fox. For To is catastrophe set in stone, the rock from which the language springs. Yet, as Benjamin goes further to suggest, [t]he devaluation of the world of things in allegory (Fox's prime land) is surpassed within the world of things itself by the commodity . — Stephen Ellis
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Frances the Mute / The Bright Continent (A Diptych) by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryFrances the Mute / The Bright Continent is a love story shaped by the language of absence—and haunted by the absence of language. In Kristina Marie Darling’s hands, the “small ornaments” of the quotidian are invested with a radiant significance rustling beneath the surface of words. —Tony Trigilio$16.00 -
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From Delancey West by Brian Jackson
PoetryHere the lover, the vet, the tenement dweller, pedestrian and poet comingle in half-light, in phantasmagoria and lush musicality alive and singing the names of the gone world. Brian Jackson has taken the time to give us his first book, a loving book born of magic and gem-like attention. ~Peter Gizzi$16.00 -
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From the Lost Land (I-XII) by André Spears
PoetryBut André Spears does not clean up or apologize; in From the Lost Land (I–XII), he blows the genre out of its wine-dark sea. Equal parts Star Wars, On the Road, Deleuzean war machine, and surrealist delirium, this poem-ever-in-progress is literature on steroids, philosophy on acid. It is scandalous, funny, erudite, and endlessly generative. It is an epic without organs. — Miriam Nichols$16.00 -
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Futuring by Mike Sikkema
PoetryMichael Sikkema's Futuring rings as it arrives. With a careful eye for details, Sikkema takes it all in. From the violence of a television commercial to tender moments in a relationship, Sikkema recreates a world where "the concealed isn't." —Gina Myers$16.00 -
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Gargantua by Jennie Cole
PoetryGARGANTUA is a poem to read and put aside to read again. an encounter with overlapping narratives at once broken and recurring. exuberant use of language enhances the stride of disrupted syntax with turns of humour, worry, mistake. addresses are to the second person and the first, incomplete or get mislaid, encourage amusement and breath-catch. humanity trapped in a cyber-vice, embedded in rich and confident qualm. this is a rare new book. —Allen Fisher$16.00 -
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Ghost / Landscape by Kristina Marie Darling & John Gallaher
PoetryGHOST / LANDSCAPE reads like an intimate chat, except not the kind people have over tea. Maybe it's whiskey causing these emotional flare-ups ("They warned me about you"), these bouts of nostalgia ("You wake wondering where the antique chickens are"), these lamentations about lost love (count the number of missed phone calls throughout), these discomfiting confessions ("...I had always thought unhappiness would be easy"). The chemistry between these poets is electric; it lights up the page. —Diana Spechler$16.00 -
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Ghosts of the Upper Floor: The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood), Book 3 by Tony Trigilio
PoetryThere’s so much to admire in Tony Trigilio’s addictive new book (the third in his delicious Dark Shadows poetry soap opera): the obsessive vision, the light and dark of emotion, and the everyday world brushing eerily—sometimes hilariously—against the supernatural. —Aaron Smith$16.00 -
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Girl in Two Pieces by Elizabeth Hatmaker
PoetryElizabeth Hatmaker has a quiet way of crunching up our world. She excels in shaking out the dirty little corners of the mind, particularly the mind of misogynist history. In the person of Elizabeth Short, the so-called "Black Dahlia," she has found her heroine, the way Leonard Cohen found Joan of Arc--or perhaps how Raymond Queneau found Zazie in the metro--for in Girl we see Elizabeth Short refracted and perfected through multiple stylistic prisms and processes. —Dodie Bellamy$16.00 -
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Girls’ Book of Knots by K. D. Harryman
New Releases, PoetryWith a sharp, tender eye for life’s beauty and brutality, K.D. Harryman’s “Girls’ Book of Knots,” is an instruction manual on how to survive the tightly knotted world of girlhood. Drawing from wisdom and warning, these poems thread together stories of childhood and motherhood with all of its charms, hurts, and triumphs. —Vandana Khanna$18.00 -
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gnōstos by Irene Koronas (Volume VII, The Grammaton Series)
New Releases, PoetryKoronas makes me see words that aren’t there. Her gnōstos is mantic, and her Sophia—the liquid crystal wombed God—inseminates with ink, strumous as an ethotic alley (i.e., a post-bodied diachronic polysemic strangulation). gnōstos is our proleptic apocalypse; “the last Oedipus/licks his gonads.” —Tom Prime$20.00 -
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GODZENIE by Marcus Slease
PoetryThese are not merely some of the most extraordinary lyrics about central European urban realities since the death of the great Polish experimental poet Miron Bialoszewski. They are, simply put, some of the most extraordinary lyrics I have ever read about how to live with disciplined joy in the continual alienation that is urban life. —Gabriel Gudding$16.00 -
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Going Head To Head by Wade Stevenson
PoetryGoing Head to Head is a book-length poem meditating on life through the lens of the head, the senses it captures in the natural world, and the turmoil inside the mind. In this sonorous collection, we have the yoyo head, the shrunken head, the coin head, the disembodied head, and the conjoined head. — Martin Ott$16.00 -
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Going with the Flow by Peter Siedlecki
PoetryCrystalline would describe the language of Peter Siedlecki's Going with the Flow, an outstanding set of poetic essays chockfull of surprises. —Jorge Guitart$16.00 -
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Golden Age by Seth Abramson
Poetry, SuperstarsSeth Abramson is author of The Metamodern Trilogy, which includes Golden Age (2017), DATA (2016), and Metamericana (2015), all published by BlazeVOX. He is also the author of The Insider’s Guide to Graduate Creative Writing Degrees (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2018); Thievery, winner of the Akron Poetry Prize (University of Akron Press, 2013); Northerners, winner of the Green Rose Prize (New Issues/Western Michigan University Press, 2011); and The Suburban Ecstasies (Ghost Road Press, 2009).$16.00 -
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Goodbye Public and Private by James Sanders
PoetryGoodbye Public and Private is the work of a barbarian Thomas Edison—poems that are not simply wildly inventive but rather the end-result of a perpetual cycle of creation, destruction, and re-creation of poetic convention on every page. “[A]s a series of discarded habits,” Sanders offers us everything from diagram poems—the21 st century equivalent of Charles Peirce's logical graphs—to procedural, conceptual, concrete, hand-written, hand-drawn poems driven as much by sight and sound as sense. We are awash in language and we are grateful. – Lori Emerson$16.00 -
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Gradually the World: New and Selected Poems, 1982 – 2013 by Burt Kimmelman
Poetry, SuperstarsThe specificity of Burt Kimmelman's poems has, for more than thirty years, been a singularly locating force. It situates us in space, in relation to the luminosity of objects, art, and one another. That every shadow of wonder can stand forth in the most familiar words is the gift this poet offers his readers time and again. – Susan Howe$18.00 -
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grief notes by rob mclennan
PoetryGood grief! mclennan—in elision of subject, omission of object, in suppression of narrative—has rewritten the grammar of love. He jiggers love radically in suspended prepositions. He newly measures it in hesitations and in the innumberable small moments between comma and semi-colon. Those discretions. —Dennis Cooley$16.00 -
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Guides, Translators, Assistants, Porters a polyvocal American epic minus the details by Jared Schickling
Poetry…nation…limning…common ground…sought…thwarted…sought again… (ES) …imagination expansive…elemental…construction…without end… (MB)$16.00 -
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Handbook for the Newly Disabled, A Lyric Memoir by Allison Blevins
New Releases, PoetryHandbook for the Newly Disabled is a beautiful lyric memoir of disability: of the dailyness of grief, parenting, queerness, and pain in the setting of navigating illness. Allison Blevins writes gorgeously around, inside, and through illness, welcoming and challenging readers on every page, in every lyric turn. —Krys Malcom Belc$16.00 -
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Having Broken, ARE by Evelyn Reilly
New Releases, PoetryEvelyn Reilly's poetry evokes and identifies the very deepest and complex emotions lurking below the surface angst of our crimes against and love for the Earth. — Lyna Hinkel,$18.00 -
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Heisenberg’s Salon by Susan Lewis
PoetryTiny stories, or large poems, Susan Lewis’s writing features exacting, figurative frames, windows in which glimpses of oneself are prismy, apposed by some other real—allegory—sounded in language’s slanted order (ardor?—(yes)). —Dale Smith$16.00 -
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HELLO HELICOPTER by Kyle Schlesinger
Poetry*Hello Helicopter*. Or hello *helikos*? As Robert Smithson tells us of his Spiral Jetty film, not so distantly from Kyle Schlesinger's poetics: “For my film (a film is a spiral made up of frames) I would have myself filmed from a helicopter (from the Greek helix, helikos meaning spiral) directly overhead in order to get the scale in terms of erratic steps." Much after Clark Coolidge's own “depositions,” and affinities as disparate as Larry Eigner, Larry Fagin, Frank Kuenstler, Bernadette Mayer, Lorine Niedecker, George Oppen, Ron Silliman and Rosemarie Waldrop in Schlesinger's poetry language bifurcates geo-glyphically forming mantles (veils, plates) for a metapolitics of the person determined by intense logics of sense. Joyrides into exteriority, these lapidary (drilled, mined, refined, chiseled) texts find form in an “everyday” (read: actual!) practice made ambivalent by the twin indiscernible points of paramnesia and paronomasia, rushing upon History and the *instant* where “memory survives necessity,” forging “a fold between these folds / / then helicopter”. “It all comes down to this…”--literally. So dig it! “Fossils have terms of their own” and these poems endlessly propose, so carefully degreed. —Thom Donovan$16.00 -
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Hello Ice by Diana Adams
PoetryA magpie dazzler of a book, Hello Ice is, quite explicitly, a world of refraction, re-layering, and rebirth – this is what happens when Alchemy meets Project, and off they go waltzing into the forest together. —Ana Božicevic$16.00 -
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Henri, Sophie, & The Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound: Poems Blasted from the Vortex by Tom Holmes
PoetryPart history, part aesthetic statement, part obsession, Henri, Sophie, & The Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound: Poems Blasted from the Vortex is, most of all, a lyrical exploration of life lived like the sharp cut of a chisel through marble. – Tod Marshall$16.00 -
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Her Body Listening by Cheryl Pallant
PoetryIn this new poetry collection, Cheryl Pallant plays both with the harsh discordance of language and its soothing homophones “line by line, sharps by flats, horn by heard.” Ornette Coleman’s free jazz comes to mind. —Brigitte Byrd$16.00 -
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Heretical Materialism: A Pasolini Triptych by George Fragopoulos
New Releases, PoetryHeretical Materialism: A Pasolini Triptych, enters into direct colloquy with voices and images of the past that feel even more essential to us now in this rendering. — Ammiel Alcalay$18.00 -
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Hi-Density Politics by Urayoán Noel
PoetryAnd marvelously, we feel freedom-potential in Hi-Density Politics. Noel rattles the “big other” symbolic order just long enough for the signs to slink out from under it, unbridled, furiously cute, in maximalist rhythms. —Rodrigo Toscano$16.00 -
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Historic Diary by Tony Trigilio
PoetryTony Trigilio’s Historic Diary (named after Lee Harvey Oswald’s account of his time in the Soviet Union) excavates the nightmarish record of the first Kennedy assassination, its auguries and aftermath, with a blue fury and an obsessive zeal that border on the Talmudic. What he finds there goes beyond chilling to a pure-product-of-America craziness that makes me tremble for my country. “I am waiting // for someone to / ride me, the / locomotive of history,” Trigilio writes, and his ticket beyond the grave takes us, willy-nilly, on this scarifying, brilliant, and disturbing ride.—Rachel Loden$16.00 -
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Hitching Post by Nava Fader
PoetryNava Fader’s Hitching Post is a collage of wild horses willingly let loose from the domesticity of language. Fader, who pays tribute to Michael Basinski's Trailers vis-à-vis the titles of her poems, breathes life into voiceless scenes and animates the everyday. Cascading amidst incantations, lullabies, and vows, Fader creates a rare syntactical wonderland, while unleashing the sonic layers of life and poïesis. —Morani Kornberg-Weiss$16.00 -
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Holyrit by Irene Koronas
PoetryBetween gilgul and galgal, logos and gematria, Irene Koronos’ fourth volume of the Grammaton Series, holyrit delivers a spectacular juxtapoiesis of textual and sonic probes— fragrant ellipses, fragments and eclipse, where all that is sacred, secular, savage and ex-static explode as sparks of light reminding us how the letters themselves are the building blocks of creation. —Adeena Karasick$16.00 -
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homemade traps for new world Brians by Evan Willner
PoetryEvan Willner reinvisions fifty states as fifty poems that each have the flinty, hard logic and formal density of stone slabs—stele or gravestones—or of teeth. A must read for all Brians. —Brian Evenson,$16.00 -
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Hostile Witness by Garin Cycholl
PoetryCycholl’s descent in Hostile Witness into America leads us through baseball parks and boxing arenas, along the banks of rivers and back alleys to smoke-filled room political deals as only a poet of Cycholl’s power could manage. The collection is masterful and epic--and ultimately essential. —Bill Allegrezza,$16.00 -
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House of Forgetting by Geoffrey Gatza
Poetry, SuperstarsHouse of Forgetting comprises two long poems by Geoffrey Gatza. The Twelve Hour Transformation of Clare tells of the disappearance of a woman who slowly transforms over the period of twelve hours into words. Recipe for Water is a double-plus, surreal telling of the life of an artist who gave up writing for painting, and the moments of memory at various stages in that life.$10.00 -
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Human Scale by Michael Kelleher
PoetryIt would be difficult for me to overstate my admiration for Michael Kelleher's new poems. They vibrate to a music rarely heard before, combining passion and intelligence with such mastery that one is left stunned by the pleasure they afford. With few words, an entire world is born. -- Paul Auster$16.00 -
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Human-Carrying Flight Technology by Christopher Shipman
PoetryChristopher Shipman’s debut collection of poetry is edgy, quirky, sharply observed, and evocative. With language simultaneously plain and artful, poem after poem draws us into a landscape familiar but odd, a world that pleasures and troubles. Shipman’s is one of the most exciting voices I’ve heard in ages. —Rick Lott$16.00 -
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Hurled Into Gettysburg by Theresa Wyatt
PoetryAt one point, Theresa Wyatt reminds us that “…history picks off the scabs of arrogance.” This work illustrates also that poetry can penetrate the icy data of history and find its feelings. Each poem in this remarkable anthology of responses to this most crucial Civil War battle has a life of its own, a language of its own, a tone of its own. —Peter Siedlecki$16.00 -
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Hybrid Hierophanies by Clayton Eshleman
Poetry, SuperstarsAdrienne Rich has stated: “As a poet and translator, Clayton Eshleman has gone more deeply into his art, its processes and demands, than any modern American poet since Robert Duncan and Muriel Rukeyser.” And Robert Kelly has written: “Nobody is like him in his struggle. At times he makes the wildness of most poetry seem merely effete. I know of no poet who has fed so richly from the thingliness of the world beneath his feet, none who so resists the glamour of beliefs. He is a shaman without a single superstition.”$12.00 -
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I AM YOU by Anne Tardos
Poetry, Superstars"I Am You reminds us of something we know but often forget: that identity is formed in relation to others. These poems are couched within the contexts of process-based, art-making practice and clear-headed philosophical inquiry. The result is a kind of philosophical investigation into the multiplicity of time." —Kit Robinson, American Book Review$16.00 -
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I DID THE WEIRD MOTOR DRIVE by Charles Baldwin
PoetryThe author of this book is obviously the unnatural love grand child of William *Sewer* Burroughs & Jim *J.G.* Ballard. Makes for a weird motor. Despite Theory Police*s stem warmings, I mean, stern warnings, I*ll buy a pre-owned text from this guy any day, though I know it to be habit forming. - Pierre Joris$16.00 -
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I Named the Dragon for You by Nikki Ketteringham
New Releases, PoetryKetteringham has composed a striking composition featuring an ingenious plot twist and etched with what it feels like to say, “I like belonging to something not someone,” but stay. —Tiffany Troy,
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I Thought I was New Here by Gregory Lawless
PoetryGregory Lawless is a visionary of fallen satelites, making revelations of scrap and stray: exiles, astronauts, scarecrows, a gnome, a daughter who will not speak, a pet gryphon and pet rock that "gets dizzy on the plains." —Dean Young$16.00 -
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I Want to Carry You Everywhere by Cassandra Manzolillo
New Releases, Poetry"Eros, like Lear, must sometimes wander unhoused across a cruel landscape. How wonderful, then, to read the poetry of Cassandra Manzolillo, there to find desire sheltered in its brightest insouciance and in the full flourish of actual yearning. There is a tireless, guileless presence in these poems that I find both admirable and original." —Donald Revell$18.00 -
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I Went Looking For You by Ruth Lepson
PoetryPure and graceful and deep: it takes much time to come to those three. Here they are. Fragile and objective, the view of the world from here. It is how a person sees when looking. Very clear. —Fanny Howe$16.00 -
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I, THE WORST OF ALL by Estela Lamat Translated by Michael Leong
PoetryI, the Worst of All is a complex and heterogeneous book that combines Lamat's intense, almost manic lyricism with her prodigious mythopoeic imagination. The result is a challenging and ambitious project that invites multiple readings and rewards extended lingerings within its dense, linguistic thicket…This book quite literally takes your breath away–because of the demanding pace of Lamat's language$16.00 -
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IDIOGEST by Ed Taylor
PoetryLike gems in their deer parks and their bus scenes, the broadways and jurassics, the Edens and Manhattans, Ed Taylor's Idiogest is a work of poems that do more than just delight; his book is a new bright star, a refreshing awe of intelligence. —Kim Chinquee$16.00 -
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Imported Poems by Diana Adams
PoetryDiana Adams offers up moments of a life dressed in understated, quasi-surreal clothing. She calls upon deep pools of the imagination to render poems that proceed not chronologically or logically, from cause to effect, but rather, by enigmatic and startling images that unwrap the pleasures of discovered connections, as when we look at a surrealist painting, with its congealed dreamscapes. —Jeffrey Levine$16.00 -
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Imposture Notebooks By Lance Phillips
Poetry“Traversed the grass... ” begins Lance Phillips' Imposture Notebook and aptly so. This book enacts traversal (and trans versality) in so many ways, it's difficult to keep count. Add another entry to the heroic, folded tradition of post-autobiography scrolling from Hejinian-Whitman to Howe-Dickinson and back. At once comprising intensely personal concretions, sweeping, almost hierophantic abstractions, and meditations on the places where such ends of the language spectrum must meet, Phillips' Notebook is a welcome record of many names writ in aether.” —Aaron McCollough$16.00 -
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In Other Days by Roger Craik
New Releases, Poetry“Every moment of Roger Craik's In Other Days is an event of inviolable music, golden, as the best of music always is, with both finitude and duration. And I use the word “golden” most particularly here, as these poems--whether urban or pastoral, whether fond or furious--impart a radiance to their idiom identical to that burnished radiance we find in the paintings of Samuel Palmer or the enigmas of Elgar. Craik adventures far beyond pathos and nostalgia, into something like a prospect of eternity. I am both thrilled and consoled by this poetry.” —Donald Revell$16.00 -
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In Paran by Larissa Shmailo
Poetry“From under the El in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to her window seat on the Harlem Line, Shmailo is right on track with poetry that dances with love, death and desire. The proverbial urban poet, Shmailo masterfully mixes the beauty and the gritty, in New York City.” — Doug Holde$16.00 -
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In Perfect Silence at the Stars: Walt Whitman and the Meaning of Poems by Nick Courtright
Critical Thinking, PoetryWith In Perfect Silence at the Stars, the art of close-reading becomes an experience without limits. This is an exhilarating book. ~ Donald Revell
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In the Country of the Peregrine by Wade Stevenson
New Releases, PoetryIt is wonderful to discover in these poems a companionship that is also in itself a kind of odyssey, replete with enchantments. This is a most welcoming book. —Donald Revell$18.00 -
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incidental music by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa
Poetryincidental music is attentive to the deep formal traditions of poetry in the western tradition: the sonnet, the pantoum, the cinquain, the rondeau, the triolet, the ghazal. And yet, as Jane Joritz-Nakagawa well knows, these traditions get their strength in how they intertwine with the contemporary. Incidental music is both innovative and inclusive of all that poetry can do. —JULIANA SPAHR$16.00 -
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Inconsequentia by Dereks Henderson & Pollard
PoetryIn this sequence, the collaboration between word and reader, writer and responder, life and death, Derek and Derek, is an invitation, a dance card in which the dancer and the danced become not a duet but a crowd of possibility—“the shining market of us." —Eleni Sikelianos$16.00 -
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Inside Narratives by Ethan Saul Bull
PoetryThere is a way of seeing expressed in Ethan Bull's poems—complex mimetic waves drifting from modernity, rippling through memory as a person or a state or flora. Proper nouns exploded, rent and mended—sometimes on the very same page. — Joseph Mains$16.00 -
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Inside The Walls of My Own House: The Complete Dark Shadows [of My Childhood] Book 2 by Tony Trigilio
Poetry“The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood) feels meditative, organic, and weighty far beyond what one would anticipate from a poem about a blooper-ridden ’60s TV show” (Rain Taxi).$16.00 -
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Interstellar Theme Park by Jack Skelley
New Releases, Poetry“Despite my dislike of seeing my own name, you’re really a good writer – never what’s expected.” —Kathy Acker$22.00 -
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Interstitial by Sean Patrick Hill
PoetryIn Interstitial, Sean Patrick Hill lovingly renders the mundane into a world that is (quite literally) on fire. His poems are taut, perverse, and terrifying. As with all good poems, these leave the page to hound and haunt the reader. — Alan May,$16.00 -
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Inventories by Paul Hogan
PoetryA forceful, unapologetic exploration of the masculinity of creative impulse. Hogan looks at nature, life, disparate moments, mysticism, and fatherhood not with rose-colored glasses but with the obsidian eyes of a realist unafraid to be caught submitting to his poetic instincts. Inventories is a work of great relevance, power, and importance. —Gary Earl Ross$16.00 -
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Iona by Andy Martrich
PoetryQuince Eastwood: proud Iona alum, a man still drawn to that small Catholic college in New Rochelle. He's looking for love in all the wrong places, and tracking info down via the absolute worst subforum. And how could he not? Iona's a place where no one's safe from transmutation, from instantly viral dipshittery.$16.00 -
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Ithaca: A Life In Four Fragments by Travis Cebula
PoetryIthaca points profoundly to the past as it creates a future with hope and precision. The story of a birth, it is also the story of her coming of age, her maturity, and her death. Ithaca is everyone, no one, word-filled and silent, as we humans are. Travis Cebula in his beautiful fragments captures the essence of being in life and its conversations with itself, others, and even God. —Maxine Chernoff$16.00 -
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January Found by Michael Sikkema
PoetryMichael Sikkema’s poems are both carefully honed and fun to read. Each word seems to be happy where it is, and this can be funny, too. —Aram Saroyan$16.00 -
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Joys: a catalogue of disappointments by Christophe Casamassima
PoetryQuietude = qui etude: the study of the who , and who's studying it motivates this marvelous book, full of sharp moves based on acute attention to language. At times directly honoring his sources-- Jabès, Creeley--and at times indirectly quoting many others from Joyce to Cendrars to Lezama Lima, Casamassima proves himself a worthy inheritor of the postmodern tradition of writing that inscribes (and in doing so, refuses) its own impossibility. - Cole Swensen$16.00 -
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KATA by James Maughn
PoetryRobert Creeley wrote about poems that make rites of passage actual, poems that speak a primary language. In Kata, James Maughn speaks a primary language. He is inventing a world—and this beautiful book enacts a wry and patient intelligence, embodies physical grace. In these lines you will hear fullness of representation, and a luminous consciousness. — Joseph Lease$16.00 -
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Kewalo Blues and Echoes by Gary Pak
New Releases, PoetryGary Pak’s Kewalo Blues and Echoes reflects his profound, joyous, and critical grasp of Hawai’i as entangled site of local pidgin, Native Hawaiian, oceanic, and ethnic mores of world-dwelling and culture-making. —Rob Sean Wilson$18.00 -
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LAST by E.J. McAdams
New Releases, PoetryI recommend reading E.J. McAdam's LAST out loud, singing/shouting each line in city parks, the subway, the office. Let it echo off the walls "amidst skyscrapers" in an elegy for our ecology/our planet/our lives that is devastating, but joyous still in its love for what was and what might still be possible —Marcella Durand$18.00 -
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Le Trouvère Prétendu by Peter Siedlecki
PoetryCongratulations, Peter Siedlecki, on a fascinating, dare I say 'heartwarming', book! His muse takes him in such unexpected directions, like writing a love song to his dog – that poem 'Heike' will always be one of my favorites. —Edward Field$16.00 -
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Lecture Notes- A Duration Poem in Twelve Parts by Deborah Meadows
PoetryLecture Notes: A duration poem in twelve parts makes that subtle shift from seemingly raw appropriation to an act of art history right before our eyes so that the safe empiricism of "seeing is believing" is turned upside down, and believing (or culturally-driven perception) creates the scene.$16.00 -
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Letters To An Albatross by Anita Mohan
Poetry'No ideas but in things.' In lieu of abstraction and sentimentality, Anita Mohan presents 'real gardens' with real apperceptions in them. More inlooker than onlooker, she enlivens the flora and fauna of this volume with her being-in-the-landscape. —Steven Felicell$16.00 -
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Lexicartographies by Nicholas Alexander Hayes
New Releases, PoetryNicholas Alexander Hayes's Lexicartographies feels like a microscopic look at an ever-shifting organism, with language serving as a tool for mapping out its evolution and tiniest particles, both fragile and brutal in their raw, naked reality. —Dominik Miles$20.00 -
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LIFT OFF: a journey of future tense by Stephen Bett
New Releases, PoetryCanadian poet Stephen Bett has been called a legend internationally. His 24th book, Lift Off: a journey of future tense, like his recent ones, is a serial poem―minimalist in its poetics, and subtle enough to sustain repeated readings. The book concerns painful, but edgy, movement out of chaos and disrepair and into new beginning, into a ‘lifting off’.$16.00 -
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Light at the End of the Word by Cheryl Pallant
New Releases, PoetryPallant’s poetry seeks connection transducing passed the tympanic membrane whilst continually registering the energy emitting materiality of one’s own body, the wounded other, and the conditions that quicken cosmic connect/to feral superfluity in full throttled resonance. —Kimberly Lyons
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Light Reading by Stephan Delbos
PoetryLight Reading ranges from micro-minimalist poems to all-encompassing lyric declarations and metatextual litanies. The book’s first section, “Light Reading,” begins with an aubade and ends with a lullaby. In between, these short poems grapple with the marks words make on existence, exploring themes of language and memory, and confronting the work of great poets and thinkers.$16.00 -
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LIGHT-HEADED by Matt Hart
PoetryIn Matt Hart’s poetry, crackling diction and soulful exuberance take the wheel for a happily bent ride through waking and dreaming spaces. Hart works the contours of his chosen forms with precision and humor, and emphasizes reoccurrence as poetic value and material dynamic through which to channel further depths of possibility for the imagination. —Anselm Berrigan$16.00 -
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Lilith Walks by Susan M. Schultz
New Releases, PoetryThis humane book, interconnected with her dogged, personable companion, Lilith, investigates life’s multifaceted and poignant zones. —Rachel Blau DuPlessis$22.00 -
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Limitless Tiny Boat by Ruth Danon
PoetryBy investigating the minutiae of life—the stuff that anchors us, a stone and its echo, paradoxes constructed by language—Ruth Danon investigates nothing short of Thanatos and Eros. The journey of the Limitless Tiny Boat is fierce and fearless. Watch out! These poems expand and contract—breathe—as they are read. A substantial achievement. —Martine Bellen$16.00 -
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lithic cornea (Volume V, The Grammaton Series) by Irene Koronas
New Releases, PoetryIrene Koronas’ Grammaton Series is an antithetical subphylum launching its egg, planula larva, polyp and tryst autoaffects. —Thetica Zorg$18.00 -
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Little Cliffs by Paul Naylor
New Releases, Poetry“Little Cliffs is a philosophical adventure story. Both characters (Kai and Chishō) and narrator struggle to transcend binaries while wandering the brushy canyonland of eastern San Diego and studying “The Uncertainty Sutra,” The Rule-Governed Sutra, “The Sutra That Shouldn’t Be Written,” etc. Narration enacts choice. Here choices are made, unmade, and remade in a prose poem as serious and light as a sutra.” —Rae Armantrout$16.00 -
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Little: Novels by Emily Anderson
Fiction, PoetryCome for the Michael Landon Flip Book; stay for the richly rewoven story that excavates hidden moments in Little House on the Prairie and pays playful homage to fan favorites like prairie bitch Nellie Oleson. Little is a new classic, skillfully foraging Laura Ingalls Wilder's much-loved series to create an (ir)reverent rereading that pioneers the new frontier of Little House on the Prairie in the 21st-century. —Alison Fraser$25.00 -
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Love at the End by Wade Stevenson
New Releases, PoetryIn the formal immediacy of these new poems, Wade Stevenson practices elegy in the imperative mode, in the faithful idioms of amazement. And so it happens that he is vividly able to address evidence and events of loss in their proper bodies, in a tender, mutual anguish. Along the way, he discovers wild decorums of love in the embrace of annihilation. These poems are a consolation beyond consolation, an unprecedented heaven on earth. —Donald Revell$16.00 -
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Madstones by Corey Mesler
Poetry“These poems-- at times dark and troubling, at other times passionate and openhearted--are the work of a very talented poet. Madstones is a book worthy of a smart and attentive audience.” —Ron Rash$16.00 -
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Mainstream by Michael Magee
PoetryRight from the start, Magee’s work bristles with the spirit of improvisation. Everything about it pops: classic poetry chops, a serious sense of humor, unabashed rawness. Mainstream is thrilling because it can turn in any direction at any time, moving effortlessly from wacked units of thought turning inside out to tender moments of highly focused nonsense and song that get, paradoxically, straight to the point. --Drew Gardner$16.00 -
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Maps for Jackie by Jason Labbe
PoetryJason Labbe’s wonderfully moving and inventive collection Maps for Jackie is an open journey into desire and its fathomlessness. Though the poems dislocate between something and nothing, it’s a loving ride where “waking finds / morning the inmost warp / in space time.” The book is filled with impeccable craft. It’s a terrific work and worth the trip. I’m on board. —PETER GIZZI$16.00 -
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Marine Layer by Kit Robinson
Poetry, SuperstarsKit Robinson convects his frontal systems through Marine Layer, happy to be enveloped in its fog while somehow always letting its poems breathe. Information sizzles in these data dispatches from the twenty-first century: poetry as a news feed that knows just enough to trust what happens next, lifting the fog—for us all—on the movable things of song. —Miles Champion$16.00 -
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Masks by Victor Coleman
PoetryVictor Coleman has played with and explored the subtleties of Oulipian procedures for many years, bringing his own imagination and impeccable ear to the revivifying possibilities arrangement offers poetry in lieu of the predictable outpourings of “identity” in the Commercial Poetry Product. With Masks he has reached a point that leaves you breathless in the face of mastery. —Michael Boughn$16.00 -
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Meet Me at the Happy Bar by Steve Langan
PoetryI'm consistently jealous of Steve Langan's small-a absurdist accuracy, not to mention his unfailing ability to dredge gorgeous song from the hum of the normal. Meet Me at the Happy Bar is sharp, sad, sassy, and frighteningly alive. —Graham Foust$16.00 -
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MemeWars by Aldon Lynn Nielsen With E. Ethelbert Miller
Critical Thinking, New Releases, PoetryAs you begin Memewars, think of Ethelbert Miller’s leading questions as melodies, recognizable tunes, and Nielsen’s responses as harmolodic extensions, waxing nostalgic, and just as moving, just as important, playing all the changes on a prolific career and life in music and writing. —Tyrone Williams
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Metamerican by Seth Abramson
Poetry, SuperstarsAmerica has been awaiting the arrival of a poet like this for a generation. —Barn Owl Review$16.00 -
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Mingling Among by Paul Naylor
New Releases, PoetryPaul Naylor’s Mingling Among is a beautifully sustained, thought-provoking, and companionable prose poem in five interrelated sections. Taking the paragraph as his primary unit of composition, scenes are rendered in ever-changing frames of time, scale, and location, in a measured if kaleidoscopic inquiry into the possibility of overcoming our obsession with binary constructions and the domination of nature. —Ted Pearson$18.00 -
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Minnows Small as Sixteenth Notes by Norma Kassirer edited by Ann Goldsmith and Edric Mesmer
PoetryNorma Kassirer, widely known as the author of the delightful Magic Elizabeth, brings the same imagination, intelligence, whimsy, and delight to the poetry collected here. ––Michael Boughn$18.00 -
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Miscellaneous Debris by Nicolas Mansito III
PoetrySurfing the emotional sea, this latest collection from Nick Mansito tosses the soul from crest to deep. Brilliant! Exciting! A beautiful look into the roller coaster soul of the poet. A perfect blend of heart and spleen, this is Mansito at his best. If this is ""debris,"" then it's time for poetry lovers everywhere to go dumpster-diving! ~ G. R. Maddison$16.00 -
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MOCK TROUGH RASPING CROW by Billy Cancel
PoetryReading MOCK TROUGH RASPING CROW I was captivated in much the same way as when I watched billy cancel perform, though the masks & at times flamboyant costumes were missing I was caught up in the language, dark humor, magic & surreal screwball imagery. This is 1 of those rare instances where performance poetry transfer perfectly from page to stage & vice-versa so “don’t let your attention wander” as cancel puts it, MTRC is about “everything at once / or something all the time.” Grab it, crack it open & try, if you dare, to figure it out. —Steve Dalachinsky$16.00 -
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Molloy the Flip Side by Chris Tysh
PoetryMolloy: The Flip Side transcreates the first half of Beckett's 1951 French novel, narrated by its eponymous anti-hero who is slowly going nowhere. The hobo lyrics of Tysh's book-length poem open up the unendurable abyss of being, yet zing with vernacular and zany humor: ""Gotta check out soon/ Be done with dying,"" Molloy says, but there's a few things he must do first. And so begins the uncanny journey in this poetic B-side of Beckett's masterpiece.$16.00 -
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Moon Talk by Wade Stevenson
PoetryWilliam Carlos Williams wrote it is always proper to talk about the moon. Rite about the moon: “Moon Talk” by Wade Stevenson, a hypnotic tide rocks within the waves of this book, the power of the tide, forces push and pull throughout “Moon Talk”, the talk that rocks and swaddles the ear with heart. —Michael Basinski$16.00 -
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Morpheu by Alejandro Crawford
PoetryFrom political change to pocket change, shipments to shipwrecks, quotations to digital code, Alejandro Crawford never met a morphosis he didn't like, and here in these pages neither will you. —Craig Dworkin$18.00 -
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Morphology by Ruth Lepson & Walter Crump
PoetryIn the first image of Ruth Lepson and Walter Crump’s Morphology, the eye follows train tracks into a distant background of earth-meets-sky, the sky a near circle of light, presenting at the same time an enclosure and an eternity. The first text suggests a linkage of thinking and seeing: if I think it, it appears. This book is magic. I want to read it a thousand times. - Charles Alexander$18.00 -
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Moth Moon by Matt Jasper
Poetry"The Roman poet Petronius once avowed that, considered rightly, there is shipwreck everywhere. In Moth Moon, Matt Jasper goes farther still, proving time and again that shipwreck is a treasure unto itself, a perfect emerald before and after all mishap. Here, vision is rewarded with new eyes, and I am grateful for the news." —Donald Revell$16.00 -
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Multiverse by Michael Smith
PoetryReading Mike Smith’s Multiverse is like watching Adam bring forth new creatures from the mud of language by breathing their name. Two books in one, one a bestiary of bodies, the other a personal history, both are a tour de force of the anagram: a thrilling demonstration of how the constraints of language and living produce poetry in life, as poem after poem infects one another. —Steve Tomasula$16.00 -
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Musee Mechanique by Rodney Koeneke
PoetryRodney Koeneke's quick-paced, hilarious, often vulgar juxtapositions are rude to understanding but courteous as a calling card to anyone who cares about the life of language. Assembled with delight, affection, and a connoisseur's ear for the latent pleasures of babble, Musee Mechanique is a joyous record of the words in our head, c. 2006. I love this book. —Benjamin Friedlander$16.00 -
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Museum Hours by Michael Kelleher
Poetry“Attraction has its pulls,” writes Michael Kelleher. Museum Hours maps, in moving ways, the force of gravity that art has on our lives, our attentions. One trusts the secrets that Kelleher’s poems share. With their precision, their quietness, their frequently keen but subtle wit, these poems enter the ear and the mind as intimately as a sudden sense of wonder just before “the roof gives way to the stars.” —Richard Deming$16.00 -
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Museum of Thrown Objects by Andrew K. Peterson
PoetryImagine an ocean leaving its bed to hover above itself, where it should not be, to form a "silhouette" visible against an "afternoon." The technology of displacement is deployed, in Andrew Peterson's brilliant book, to create: not "delay" but "fusion." It makes sense, then, to build a museum out of artifacts that would, in the wetness beyond architecture, disappear by "low tide", but are instead "kept." Locked away in a decaying archive, "the thrown objects" form perverse alliances when the lights dim. Where the genitalia should be, for example, are "leafs and bugs." —Bhanu Kapil$18.00 -
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My Aunt’s Abortion by Jane Rosenberg LaForge
New Releases, PoetryMy Aunt’s Abortion, a collection of essays and poetry by Jane Rosenberg LaForge, treks the landscape of family. It is an uneven terrain of uncertain memories and mundanities, old and discovered traumas, the vagaries of circumstance and outcome and loss—the unattainable, whether dreams or abortion. —K-B Gressitt$18.00 -
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My Grunge of 1991 by Dennis Etzel Jr.
PoetryWithin the poem, “a list of alphabetized semblances for keeping track of occurrences out of post-trauma,” the speaker negotiates a way between quotations. Even pre-9/11, “we [were] no longer safe,” so he cloaks himself in “Grunge music, comic books, and Star Trek.” Amidst the dystopia of the First Gulf War, Dennis Etzel, Jr. brilliantly imagines a utopia where “there are no boy or girl Happy Meal toys – only Hot Wheels or Barbie.” In other words, this absorbing prose-poem sequence is an inoculation against – and hope for – the present. —Joseph Harrington -
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My ID by Bill Lavender
PoetryLife happened before it was over. Then there is the sorting out that empties into overlaid panes, mind’s planets, which Bill Lavender navigates in My ID with consummate élan and a strong dose of “impolite, unpolitic” dissent. —Charles Bernstein$16.00 -
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My Kinship With The Lotus Eaters by Lewis LaCook
New Releases, PoetryMy Kinship With The Lotus Eaters confirms Lewis LaCook’s status as an irresistible poet of sensuous, intelligent, surprising work. At the border of synesthesia (“Ellipses in a woodpecker’s throat”), ephemera take shape and miraculously last. —Sheila E. Murphy$16.00 -
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My Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry
PoetryMy Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry is a collection of poetry from young Buffalo writers. The poems in this anthology capture the energy and creative output from the city’s thriving slam, alt-lit, spoken word, language poetry, academic, and publishing communities.$18.00 -
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My Secret Wars of 1984 by Dennis Etzel, Jr.
PoetryThe world of 1984 has a deft tenacity in the hands of Dennis Etzel, Jr. This book blends the personal to the greater political as only the best possible memoir can do. We are all in this world together and the strangest things occur, sometimes when other strange things occur, and I thank Mr. Etzel for his brilliant, sharp reminder. —CAConrad$16.00 -
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mylar by Eric Wertheimer
Poetry"Where we live, we live in cars,” Eric Wertheimer writes in Mylar, of an eerily postmodern city where “Dust storm at the mirror of stars.” Wertheimer locates us in an at-times gorgeously realized lyric moment—a perfectly rhymed couplet, for instance, or the sly grammatique of this deftly languaged poetry. The visionary range of Wertheimer’s poetic dictions across centuries is riveting, and the swerve to tender, embodied attentiveness and vulnerability so moving. Mylar is miracle. —Cynthia Hogue$16.00 -
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N7ostradamus by Travis Macdonald
PoetryThis is a book written from a spirited and volatile unconscious. Read it when it's raining, or at night, or with your eyes completely closed. —Bhanu Kapil$16.00 -
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Nectar of Story by Tim J. Myers
PoetryNectar of Story considers wildly various, ever intriguing subjects with sympathy, passion, and self-effacing wisdom. And his prose introductions to the poems are often as fine as the vignettes in Hemingway's In Our Time. A rich and wonderful collection. —Ron Hansen,$16.00 -
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New City by Scott Abels
PoetryRoll into Scott Abels’s gloriously fracked New City, where the vibe is fun, loving, creating, jobs, for kids, “looping our rope over / a natural crotch,” growing up, in Nebraska, looking like clip art, don’t worry pee is sterile, we’re singing for whose supper?, this city’s, got us, altogether now—if you're a red-blooded a merry can of worms, you need to read this. —Catherine Wagner$16.00 -
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Nightshades by Michael Gessner
New Releases, PoetryNightshades, Michael Gessner’s new and presciently-titled collection of poems, manages to captivate the reader on its opening pages, beginning with a deadpan, impossibly earnest manifesto titled “Expectations”—followed immediately by a pair of anaphoric poems that seem almost gleeful in their savvy irreverence. All of these offer the reader a highly promising springboard into a unique poetic adventure. —Marilyn L. Taylor$16.00 -
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Nine Blue Moments for Robin by Michael Boughn
PoetryHow unafraid these thinking loving poems are as they explore memory’s grief and delight, hommages for Robin Blaser – not about, but to a beloved friend and mentor. Boughn’s interlinked meditations conjure something of Blaser himself that anyone who knew him will recognise, and over which anyone who did not will wonder – celebration and grief, mind and body, urgency and laughter, all working together. Nine blue moments indeed, that resonate more fully than memory and may outlast it: “Enough depth,” the poet says, “to contain a sky.” The ache of that. —Peter Quartermain$16.00 -
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Nine by Anne Tardos
Poetry, SuperstarsAnne Tardos, whose poetry & performances have enlightened us for several decades now, emerges in Nines as an innovator of new forms as a vehicle for work that incorporates, like all great poetry, the fullest range of thoughts & experiences & makes them stick in mind & memory. I am struck, as rarely happens, by this combination of form & content, each a powerful extension of the other. —Jerome Rothenberg$16.00 -
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NIV: 39 & 27 by Nicholas Hayes
PoetryRevising rule and ritual of the holy books, the speaker of these re-tellings drips distorted light on some of the ancient obsessions to make them appear strange in their familiarity and familiar in their strangeness. With a mathematical precision and the patience of an engineer, Nicholas Alexander Hayes' first book offers holy enemies, licked-up Lords and unclean priests, harlot judges, names that burn, locusts who attack lions, and borders that force peace. — Daniel Borzutzky$16.00 -
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No Dimes for the Dancing Gypsies by Linda King
Poetry, SuperstarsIn No Dimes for the Dancing Gypsies, Linda King masterfully orchestrates an intriguing & mesmerizing work of identity and survival. These are poems of inquiry, poems of resurrection, where “water has a memory” and language reveals “other dichotomies,” where the past and present merge, and language beautifully triumphs. —Marcia Arrieta$16.00 -
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No Dimes for the Dancing Gypsies by Linda King
PoetryIn No Dimes for the Dancing Gypsies, Linda King masterfully orchestrates an intriguing & mesmerizing work of identity and survival. These are poems of inquiry, poems of resurrection, where “water has a memory” and language reveals “other dichotomies,” where the past and present merge, and language beautifully triumphs. —Marcia Arrieta$16.00 -
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Noah’s Ark by Sam Magavern, Art by Monica Angle
PoetrySam Magavern opens quick portals in ""Noah's Ark"" for morning visions and wisdoms: reports and chants from dark and funny parts of the mind. Here are sudden pictures of durable wonder. Read quickly and all at once. And breathe in Monica Angle's long now, a broadly painted calligraphy that stitches the poems into the book and keeps it afloat, a watercolor time and life line that locates the enduring horizon. —Anthony Bannon$25.00 -
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Nomads with Samsonite by Timothy Bradford
PoetryTimothy Bradford gnaws on the big questions: should I run with my pack, or should I go it alone? Where to find enlightenment? What is a dead animal? What is the spirit’s realm? The mind falls into its quandaries, and the body, drunk with it, tags along. These poems, roving across continents, restlessly seek to locate consciousness in the world, a universe which “opens like a tulip / or closes like a fist,” where the poet is not afraid to admit: “I forget / which.” —Eleni Sikeliano$16.00 -
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Non Sequitur Syndrome by Goro Takano
PoetryIn this book, the desire for clarity is pitted against the lust for ambiguity, and the desire to be saved collides with the urge to self-destruct. Also, in this book, what I am (as male, father, widower, heterosexual, poet, Japanese native living in Japan, and so on) coexists with what I am not. —Goro Takano$16.00 -
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Notes on a Past Life by David Trinidad
Poetry, SuperstarsIn Notes on a Past Life, David Trinidad exorcises the ghosts of New York with a compulsively readable, wrenching memoir in verse. His “Goodbye to All That” offers a critique of ambition, an ode to community, and a sip of the poison that poetry is, in the end, the antidote to. —Eula Biss$16.00 -
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O by Jared Schickling
PoetryJared Schickling, the Poetry of the imagination expansive, no master, not forms that restrict, not the commercialism of print. Not the Government of Poetry, with this an anarchistic being is where all might of the elemental as a construction without end with wisdom and magic, behold begins a future —Michael Basinski$16.00 -
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Occasion Poems by Diane Christian
PoetryOccasion poems were suggested by colleague, friend, and poet Robert Creeley, who thought it would be a good idea to have poems for various occasions made up as ink stamps, ready to imprint on a postcard and send off for occasions. Unlike occasional poems tied to specific persons and events, they have a broader human reach.$16.00 -
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ocean plastic by Orchid Tierney
PoetryIt is with intuition rather than calculation that Tierney's #ocean plastic# forages, gathers and arranges. With intuition chosen over calculation, Tierney's unit of measure is a unit of matter. Responding to the pipeline with the ethics of the poetic line, Tierney's particular attention models a dwelling among that can teach both how and why we might turn the plastic we find into an ecology of ethics. —Michelle Taransky$12.00 -
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Of Some Sky by Joseph Harrington
PoetryIf it’s indeed darkest before the dawn, then we should immerse ourselves in Joseph Harrington’s Of Some Sky and hope – because it doesn’t get much darker than this. This book surveys the terrain we inhabit now (in the mid-Anthropocene) somewhere between the devil and the rising seas. —Rae Armantrout$16.00 -
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One Year In A Paper Cinema by Travis Cebula
PoetryNobody looks in the newspaper to see what's on TV anymore. For that kind of news, we have to go to poems—specifically, Travis Cebula's pitch-perfect One Year in a Paper Cinema, whose shapely, lyrico-epigrammatic interfaces with a year's worth of TV listings in The Denver Post pull open the gauzy curtain separating ""art"" and ""life"" to reveal something at once fresh and recycled, mysteriously stochastic and predatorily pre-programmed. Almost as soon as this book was finished, the Post stopped printing this section. Thank goodness for the celerity of visionary poets! —K. Silem Mohammad$16.00 -
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Ongoing Repairs to Something Significant by Linda King
PoetryLinda King’s new collection is filled with poems that reflect on their own making, considering the rules of narrative with wit, subtlety, and grace. Here you will find language interrogated from within its most familiar structures, singing all the while with difficult and necessary music. Her work surprises and gratifies with its syntactic denseness, its wild associative leaps. King is a poet to watch. —Kristina Marie Darling$16.00 -
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Opera House Arterial by Anne-Adele Wight
PoetryAnne-Adele Wight's new masterpiece Opera House Arterial is a fierce testimony of the power that one archetype alone can create––the Opera House. Part trickster, part behemoth, part lover, part spy, part friendly cadaver––like "sparrow bones in a cup." Or "a mug of phosphorus."––Debrah Morkun$16.00 -
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Oponearth by Timothy David Orme
PoetryIf you want a poetry that drops you off a cliff, then suddenly hauls up the sun making you realize the world's actually cycling at speed around you while you stand awestruck read Timothy David Orme—his lyrics are vertiginous, and lovely. —Catherine Wagner$16.00 -
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or, The Whale by Sherry Robbins
Poetry“Into this first and oldest cradle / I invite you, reader.” from “The Fossil Whale” by Sherry Robbins. “me in in in / in the boat / of my body” from “The Chase – First Day” by Sherry Robbins. This is her book of poetry. I read her returning to this poetry. Sherry Robbins, ubiquitous saillore at voyage in the allegorical myth of and in her life, explores her journey, the wovenings of woman currents, root drinker and her map of heaven. —Michael Basinski$16.00 -
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Other Maidens by Toti O’Brien
PoetryIn Other Maidens, Toti O’Brien masterfully choreographs shifting perceptions of self and the other in a soulful dance with reality. These intuitive, courageous poems explore the elusive and illusive core of grief and wonder, fear and joy, estrangement and intimacy. —William O’Dal$16.00 -
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Otherwise Known as Home by Tim Wood
PoetryThe poems shimmering in this volume represent an intense and vertiginous new beginning of the sonnet, erupting from the site of "end words." Tim Wood's re-embarkations are thrilling. I hesitate to impose metaphors on a work of art that stands on its own terms, but something related to time travel might turn attention in the right direction. —Lyn Hejinian$16.00 -
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Overtures 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 -
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Ovid’s Creek by Sam Magavern, Art by Monica Angle
New Releases, PoetryIn 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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Oxidane by Nicole Matos
PoetryOxidane has the reach of taut flash fiction fiction and the punch of expertly crafted poetry. It is a truly hybrid animal you’ll think about running from—but you'll find yourself running towards it. —J. Bradley$16.00 -
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Parables For The Pouring Rain by Paul Sutton
Poetry"The ship might be sinking but Paul Sutton has tied himself to the mast and his poems chart the descent as the whole caboodle wallows down. Sutton’s work is a sovereign antidote to the pointless mush of establishment-approved literature." — Rod Madocks$16.00 -
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Parataxis by Matt Hill
Poetry"... swaying between Baudelairean modalities of social spleen and lyric fervor, perceptions fresh and exacting; each piece demands utopia, and measures reality by its absence." —Andrew Joron$16.00 -
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Paris Views by Michael Joyce
PoetryAnyone who loves Paris will find that literarily-overdetermined city brought to new life---new and not particularly literary, for through Joyce’s sharp, quick, and cleverly amorous eye, Paris is evoked not as objet d’art, but as sloppily, raucously, lived; as an idiosyncratic confluence of specific instances that shed deep light on the way that individual perception and experience sculpt public space. — Cole Swensen$16.00 -
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perimeter homespun by Marcia Arrieta
PoetryMarcia Arrieta's perimeter homespun is part meditation, part equation. Both spare and delightfully baroque at the same time, the collection deftly explores the tensions between art and nature, the created world and the occurring one. —Kristy Bowen$16.00 -
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Permission 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 -
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Person Hour by Thibault Raoult
PoetryThibault Raoult reaches across the orderly table of syntax and conventional content to grab the reader literally by the throat in order to redirect attention to language performing itself as an unresolved constellation of eros, humor, history, and social observation. —Forrest Gander -
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PERSONAL EFFECTS by Ted Pearson
Poetry, SuperstarsTime travels aphoristically in short hops, seen from long distance, with words as object lessons, in Ted Pearson’s refulgent work. “These annotations mean the world” in the most personal and impersonal sense. But the “eternal present” affords scant comfort, as quatrains slant away or sentences shimmer over the depth of existence. —Alan Bernheimer$16.00 -
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Petrarchan by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryKristina Marie Darling's Petrarchan uses ideas of the fragment, the unsaid, and the unknown to gesture towards her own passionate syntax. It seeks the person in Petrarch's humanism. —Sean Singer$16.00 -
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PHARMAKON (A CASE HISTORY) by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryPHARMAKON is a rattling collection. Laced with pinching, dark detail, the tinge of gone, resonant trinkets, and a seasoned sense of loss, this book dustlessly describes the bewilderment of being, being not, and the feeling that comes with those. —Emily Toder$16.00 -
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Phoems for Mobil Vices by Rich Murphy
Poetry“intriguing and somehow informative poems.” — Erica Wright, Poetry Editor, Guernica$16.00 -
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Pickles & Jams by Cris Cheek
PoetryIn Pickles & Jams, cris cheek exposes the very membranes that lie between the sensed-real of the culturally dominant and the barely-sensed hyper-real of the culturally emergent. His poetics (initially spawned and tested in Briton) isn’t of an “epiphany” variety, but rather is borne of a sabre-ready constructivist process, whereby the jettisoning of American Capitalist values is at a premium. —Rodrigo Toscano$16.00 -
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Pieces by Hank Lazer
New Releases, PoetryThese apt, reductive verses keep a locus of faith with skill and moving commitment. —Robert Creeley$18.00 -
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Please Do Not Feed the Ghost By Peter Ramos
PoetryThese poems by Peter Ramos stage incidents of arrested breath. Diegetic scenes---a mid-century interior, a cocktail party, a clinic, an airport, and everywhere the glow of television---so embroil a psychological subject as to mirror the difficult weather that divides labor from leisure life in the caesuras of time and space.— Roberto Tejada$16.00 -
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POEM FOR THE UNBORN| NOTES TO THE GREATEST GENERATION by Chuck Richardson
PoetryThe hip thing these days is to be a poet and write fiction. It is not the hip thing these days to be a fiction writer and write poetry. The former brings possible public reward and greater numbers of readers; the latter brings no public reward and notice but by a few. That is the surface reason this book of poetry--a single dark, weird, shattering poem, really--by the singular fiction writer Chuck Richardson might trigger curiosity and attention. —Kent Johnson$16.00 -
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Poems by Richard Owens
PoetryFrom Delaware Memoranda (2008) through Dead in the House of Pound (2018), this volume brings together a broad constellation of poetic work, much of which first appeared through presses on both sides of the Atlantic in editions either out-of-print or distantly circulated.$20.00 -
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POEMS: now and then by Edric Mesmer
PoetryThese poems fall all too neatly into two sections, the eponymous “now” and “then.” I feel the “now” poems, all from the early months of 2020, share a returning-to with the “then” poems, some of which were written as long as 20 years ago. That they have come together so squarely—so circularly—(at least to me), speaks to a sympathy between then and now. I hope that the reader will also find this to be true. — Edric Mesmer, May 2020$16.00 -
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Poetic 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 -
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Polaroids 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 -
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prairie)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 -
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Prefab Eulogies, Volume 1 by David Wolach
PoetryIs it possible to out-Flarf Flarf? Prefab Eulogies encourages multi-channel collectivity that demands we read—and act—with a finger on the trigger of forgiveness, with an eye trailing reclamation. —Jules Boykoff$16.00 -
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Prior by James Berger
PoetryThere is an ever-present intensity to James Berger’s Prior through which the reader plummets. Full of complex and particular insight, by turns darkly comic and comically dark, these poems are as unafraid of regret and anger as they are of quick surprise and happiness. — Richard Deming$16.00 -
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Projection Machine by Debrah Morkun
PoetryIn the land of All Language, replete with spoken gold, Debrah Morkun spins poems, then weaves this Projection Machine. This original or pre-. And when reflection mazes and you are inside and civilization itself a book read in all directions, she will take your eyes by the hand and lead you on. I am waiting for you there. —Bob Holman$16.00 -
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Province of Numb Errs by Jared Schickling
PoetryJared Schickling’s Province of Numb Errs is a quirky, sincere and often funny homage to the long arms of his Catholic upbringing. Less dour than Stephen Daedalus and the other cohorts of Joyce’s imagination, the narrators in these poems gleefully yoke together Biblical clichés and homespun homilies, xenophobic injunctions and commonsense imperatives, and, per rhetoric, the highfalutin’ and colloquial. —Tyrone Williams$16.00 -
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Puddles of An Open by Paige Melin
PoetryThrough her provocative syntactic ruptures and stream-of-consciousess narrative style, Melin subtly and gracefully interrogates the boundaries between interior and exterior, subject and object, self and world. Puddles of an Open is a stunning debut, as innovative in its technique as it is in its philosophical assertions. —Kristina Marie Darling$10.00 -
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Rain Check Poems by Aaron Simon
PoetryAaron Simon's lines feel like strokes of a pre-CBS Jazzmaster. Not plastic. More like rosewood with at least a Gibson tuneOmatic bridge. A brrruummm alliteration where each word-note contains the artful play of improv and composition colliding. Aaron Simon is a good band whose record is killing it on the deck these days. —Thurston Moore$16.00 -
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Rambo Goes to Idaho by Scott Abels
PoetryIn Rambo Goes to Idaho, Scott Abels has blurred the lines between pop culture and personal struggle, the east and the west, God and Gene Simmons. At once heroic and elegiac, these poems balance on a knife edge not unlike Rambo’s, and what’s most beautiful here is that they sometimes get cut. —Clay Matthews$16.00 -
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Rearview 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 -
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Reflections Of Hostile Revelries by Jennifer C. Wolfe
PoetryJennifer C. Wolfe’s new collection Reflections of Hostile Revelries is the voice in our heads that needs to be spoken. In this progressive work, Wolfe targets our richest and most powerful enemies addressing their essential flaws and epic mistakes while reminding the reader these are the exact people running our countries. Reflections of Hostile Revelries is direct and honest oral poetics and will leave you tired, but eager to read on. —Jordan Antonucci$16.00 -
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Refugee: Six Rooms With Marc Chagall by Travis Cebula
PoetryBoth art and poetry hit the heart with pure, undiluted impact, and Travis Cebula’s latest collection “Refugee: Six Rooms With Marc Chagall” is a beautiful and stirring example of this immediacy. —Jill Koenigsdorf$16.00 -
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Requited by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryThe prose poems that open Kristina Marie Darling’s Requited gradually recede, through erasure, into the quieter fragments of the “Epilogue.” The closing section deftly reframes the juxtapositions and silences that come before, making one question whether the collection’s title suggests love or retaliation. —Sandra Lim$16.00 -
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Responsibilities of the Obsessed by Goro Takano
PoetryTelephones ring “hollow and blank”; “He has no idea what he’ll become. / All he knows is / that tomorrow will be a sunny day / for everybody else.” Dementia and demolished nuclear plants in an immense desert: the artificial landscapes created by Goro Takano in his second book are chillingly, and humorously, real. —Jane Joritz-Nakagawa$16.00 -
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Robert Creeley on the Poet’s Work in conversation with & photographs by Bruce Jackson
Critical Thinking, Poetry, SuperstarsThis is an edited transcript of a conversation about the work poets do that Robert Creeley and Bruce Jackson held in Robert Creeley’s home—a converted firehouse in Buffalo’s Black Rock district— the morning of September 6, 2001.$16.00 -
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ROMANCE WITH SMALL-TIME CROOKS by Alexis Ivy
PoetryAlexis Ivy's jagged, hoarse, and beautiful poems recount a journey through a hell that looks a lot like honky-tonk America: the drugs, the booze, the sex— and the promise of transcendence everywhere just out of reach. There is nothing small-time about Romance With Small-Time Crooks. It is an extraordinary book. —Richard Hoffman$16.00 -
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Rude Girl by John Sakkis
PoetryIn Rude Girl, light "scrime[s]," a girl secretly "places a button under her tongue," and a tide is a "pseudonym" both for not speaking (right then) and for what comes after: the start of seeing "the things [in front of]" (my brackets), which in fact "were always [in front of]." There's an attention too, in John Sakkis's beautiful book, to the "frequency and occurence" with which these things happened. Are happening. Like "years or color." Loved these poems. Hope you will too. Bhanu Kapil$16.00 -
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Ruin by Luke McMullan
Poetry‘The Ruin’ is the remaining fragment of an eighth-century Anglo-Saxon poem that describes the collapsed arches and rubble-strewn site of the old Roman baths at the city of Bath. Here Luke McMullan offers a translation in two strands that cross—poem and gloss—with the generous gift also of a scaffolding: word-tables that reveal for a reader the possible constellations of meanings of the poem’s key words, situating this gorgeous text within the history of its previous translation. —Lisa Robertson$16.00 -
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Runes by Tracy Thomas
PoetryTracy Thomas' poetry takes us to places we've never been even as we feel we've been there before. Sometimes mystical, sometimes comical, sometimes frightening and always overwhelming. His juxtapositions are dizzying, he creates language you can dance to. —Jack Evans$16.00 -
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Runoff by Clay Matthews
PoetryIt’s a major book from a writer who’s already shown himself to be one of our best and most unconventional narrative-lyric poets. Your head will spin, your eyes will bulge, you’ll think you could’ve done it, but you didn’t (and you couldn’t)! Put on your goggles and armor; you’re in for a crushing, bewildering, and beautiful ride. — Matt Hart$16.00 -
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Saccade Patterns by Deborah Meadows
PoetrySaccade Patterns explores vision, the erotic gaze, and social discernment. The book opens with a shuffled text that dismantles melodrama by inscribing primate capacity for abstract thought. There’s even a list of possible names for a pet cricket that follows a mathematic iteration. The poems seem to ask how an ekphrastic poem based on the story of Tristan und Isolde illumines the oldest gaze of love and eros. “Highways out to desert proving grounds” lead to technologically-enhanced vision, failures in our “dynastic speed-up.”$16.00 -
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Sailing This Nameless Ship by Justin Evans
PoetrySoundly lyrical yet subtly narrative, these poems find a grounded energy in a bittersweet longing for home that is belied by a thrilling apprehension of what’s to come. — Jeff Newberry$16.00 -
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SALVAGE by Michael Basinski
PoetrySO, he tried and it was endless in his head labyrinth and he tried and tried: When asked about SALVAGE Basinski pondered and battled with his selves. He didn’t know. He was afraid. His impulses were everywhere. The veil of art, which would unveil nothing! The silly, try too hard, musings of an aging being! Alien communication, confrontation, and arrogance and some rampant need and want.$16.00 -
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Samsara Congeries by mIEKAL aND
PoetryImpossible to characterize in a few sweeping phrases, Samsara Congeries, an epic in many pieces, channels land-ancestors, land-heirs, langue-ancestors, langue-heirs, all the detritus of material and linguistic (t)ex(t)(ins)istence that insists on itself in cycles of embodied living. —Maria Damon$22.00 -
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Say 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 -
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Scorched Altar: Selected Poems & Stories 2007-2014 by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryIt is in the very restlessness of her metaphors that Kristina Darling documents a tangible faith. Such restlessness is trustworthy and always, throughout Scorched Altar, both vital and in plain view. Here are truthful experiments. Here is a new tradition, alive in bright air. —Donald Revell$18.00 -
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Secondary Sound by justin sirois
PoetrySometimes a ringtone is just a ringtone, but not very often. Mostly they say things like "hope you got away from yourself safe," or "reformat a thief into a reverted serf," or "felt more real watching it onscreen." This is not a technological book, it's about people, so it's techno-illogical-- it's about hiding & thieving & occasionally, love. sirois has written here a stunning documentary attempt at re-lyricizing our stupid alienations. He succeeds, we don't. Ahoy there Group Gropers, press send. — Rod Smith$16.00 -
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Secret’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 -
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Secrets of My Prison House by Geoffrey Gatza
PoetryGeoffrey Gatza’s poems go straight to the point. From one to another the plane is consistent, the tone both literate and congenial; the feeling, one of an assessment of options while moving through choice to definition, a definition-in-progress of how to be, allowing large time outs for horseplay, an inventory of asides that end up occupying large chunks of mind. The book as ethos – you can live with it -- you wish – why not? —Bill Berkson$16.00 -
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Sensational Spectacular by Nate Pritts
PoetryAs its exuberant title suggests, Sensational Spectacular is a book of double energies, hurling out voluble, self-sparking poems on one side while clocking the reader upside the head with the essential loneliness of the lyric (and the universe) on the other. —Joyelle McSweeney$16.00 -
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SHE, A BLUEPRINT by Michelle Naka Pierce and Sue Hammond West
PoetryIt is an ekphrasis of the female form, one which writes a woman into being where the woman cannot be. It is a reverse-ekphrasis of the formal female, one which images what might be a woman were woman not imagined. Pierce and Hammond West’s She, a Blueprint underscores that every grid is someone’s narrative, and there is only necessity in the thrust of us. —Vanessa Place -
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Showgirls – The Movie in Sestinas by Jeffery Conway
PoetryIt has been far too long since a collection of poems summoned us to a world of performers and voyeurs, catfights and choreography, lip gloss and lap dances. In fact, this has never been done before, and Jeffery Conway’s Showgirls: The Movie in Sestinas digs deeper than any collection in recent memory. —Mary Biddinger$16.00 -
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SHRINKRAP, Litany in Quadraphony by André Spears
PoetryAND NOW, AS THEY SAY, FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. André Spears’ Shrinkrap begins with a claim to simple reportage – the who, what, where, and when that define the parameters of classic reporting – but this report will lead you down the proverbial rabbit hole and into an experience of our current condition unlike any you have had before. —Michael Boughn$16.00 -
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Sidestep Catapult by Anne-Adele Wight
PoetryIn Anne-Adele Wight‘s monumental collection, Sidestep Catapult, she maneuvers time and space to bring us to a new sense of being. With fresh and gorgeous language, she makes a world where letters and colors come together... ––Dorothea Lasky$16.00 -
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Silent Whistle-Blowers by Goro Takano
PoetryGoro Takano's restless, deadpan, corkscrew imagination conjures prose poems, quatrains and stories that celebrate the life force and, if you believe his unreliable narrator, promote peace. I can't help thinking what this writer's "self-dramatizing practice" aims to unleash are not "silent whistle-blowers" so much as audible mind-blowers. Readers, be warned. —Alan Botsford$16.00 -
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Siphonic (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 -
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Sisyphus My Love (To Record a Dream in a Bathtub) by Laura Hinton
PoetryOnce there was a time, before this and before that, a time of metaphoric remembrances and repetitions, virtual rehearsals. “The rhythm of film like poetry” becomes the rhythm of poetry like film “to remain inside and outside at once.” Funny outrageous dark dreams are real, wherein a smaller point size of type determines infinitives. “Sisyphus died and came back that week,” back to the beaches of the Riviera, the old “New City,” where the radical “I” was an Orpheus who did not turn around but instead rhymes “bleak” and “chic.” —Norma Cole$25.00 -
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Six Verse Plays: Or, Some Poems For Performance, by John Matthias
Drama, Poetry, SuperstarsThe poetry, essays, and fiction of John Matthias are widely known. Less known are the plays and performance texts that he has been writing and adapting from his longer poems in the course of the last several years. This book contains six of these texts, only one of which has been performed. However, the success of staged versions of “Automystifstical Plaice” suggests that performances of the other texts would be equally exciting. Both by the reader and the hypothetical producer of these plays, this book will be warmly welcomed.$16.00 -
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SKY BOOTHS IN THE BREATH SOMEWHERE, The ASHBERY ERASURE Poems by david dodd lee
PoetryDavid Dodd Lee is the author of four full-length books of poems, Downsides of Fish Culture (New Issues Press, 1997), Arrow Pointing North (Four Way Books, 2002), Abrupt Rural (New Issues Press, 2004), The Nervous Filaments (Four Way Books, 2010), and a chapbook , Wilderness (March Street Press, 2000).$16.00 -
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Slab 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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Sleeping 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 -
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SMEAR 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 -
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Soldatesque / Soldiering | Poetry by Anne Waldman, Art by Noah Saterstrom
Poetry, Superstars“Here on the home front Anne and Noah’s word-and-image frieze blossoms like an immensely considerate device improvised for those Gentle Reader hands remaining.” — Bill Berkson$20.00 -
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some deer left the yard moving day by Andrew K Peterson
Poetry"To: “quincify.” To: “decolonize.” Andy's Peterson's some deer is dedicated to “Naropa,” the university he attended for two years. There, he drew rancid, ebullient comics and amazed us all – his “blood company” – with stand-up, improvised accounts and physical examples of a contemporary hybrid poetics. ... The experiment is to stay alive. – Bhanu Kapil$16.00 -
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Some Odd Afternoon by Sally Ashton
Poetry“This is about what turns up,” writes Sally Ashton in Some Odd Afternoon . What turns up may be the “dangedy-dang twang” of a banjo, a laptop hiding under a hoop skirt, or a living room that becomes a forest of grandfathers, one “a log, another stone, one a river.” —Nils Peterson,$16.00 -
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Something to Exchange by Celia Gilbert
Poetry“I can't see with an angel's sight,” Celia Gilbert writes, but she can see with the clear vision of a poet who knows both love and loss and continues to make—to embrace—that costly exchange. These poems give us the natural world in stunning beauty and history in all its inconsolable grief. — Betsy Sholl$16.00 -
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Somewhere Over the Pachyderm Rainbow by Jennifer C. Wolfe
PoetryOnce again Jennifer C. Wolfe takes aim at American politics in her newest collection of poetry, from Buffalo’s BlazeVOX books. In them, Wolfe goes beyond the current political climate to explore the role of the media and pundit-ainers who “report” with seemingly unprecedented partisan bias, and do so shamelessly. She is critical, and she doesn’t pretend otherwise. Wolfe seeks out this dynamic, shining the light, by looking both at the actors and issues themselves, and how partisan politics often plays out in the media coverage of issues and current events. —Lynn Alexander -
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SongBu®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 -
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Songs of the Sun Amor by Wade Stevenson
PoetryBe to be Not to become You can’t think joy What you seek or sought The mind can never catch So live lightly Love wildly Go sweetly Love tenderly Die softly Run the race from within Ride the mare of the moon Eat the golden apples of the sun$16.00 -
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sound 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 -
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specimens 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 -
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Spleen 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 -
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Starlight: 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 -
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Starlight’s Genesis: An Anthology of the Starlight Gallery
PoetryEach 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 -
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Stone 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 -
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Storm 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 -
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Stormy 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 -
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Stratification 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 -
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String 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 -
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Submissions 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 -
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Sunday 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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Sung: 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 -
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Sure Thing by Robin Brox
PoetryLike the images in this thoughtful debut, Brox's poems chart our attraction to surfaces, textures, and weathers with a calm hand intent on recording the ""tenderest ambivalences"" of our desires and senses. —Jennifer Moxley$16.00 -
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Surface Tension by David Peak
PoetryAmputation of person, amputation of limb, amputation of smaller and smaller shapes of cells. Into his sentences David Peak fits deleted frames from wonderful films we saw once half-asleep, that time asleep on the sofa in that room we would have paid more attention to if we'd known we weren't going to be back there these years later. — Blake Butler$16.00 -
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Suspended Imagination by Florine Melnyk
Poetry"Suspended Imagination is a wild read. Risky, provocative, cheerfully over-the-edge, at their best these poems are filled with music, humor, and imagination. Always alert for new ways to give form to the wild and strange, Florine Melnyk offers two of the most high-spirited sestinas you'll ever come across and throws in a fine nonce-sestina that engages the reader in a sort of mad treasure hunt for fun and meaning." — Theodore Deppe$16.00 -
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Sweet Boy by Matthew Petit
New Releases, PoetryAt 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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t&u& lash your nipples to a post history is gorgeous by Jared Schickling
Poetry“Forgetfulness of everything but bliss,” —John Keats$16.00 -
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Taste: Gastronomic Poems by Francis Raven
PoetryThe indomitable spirit of cuisine is brought to a boil in this new collection of poems by Francis Raven. Taste revels in the seasons of the senses, as if summer and spring were actions of eating or of smell, asking us in to dinner and savor all that can be experienced in a day. From shopping lists, conversations, recipes to meditative contemplations on tea, these poems are thoughtful as they are a delight. —Aloysius Werner$16.00 -
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Ten by Jennifer Firestone
PoetryUsing her recovering body as a constraint for poetic inspiration, Jennifer Firestone has written poems that are limpid, elemental, tranquil, and full of light. —Cathy Park Hong$16.00 -
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Tender by Travis Cebula
New Releases, PoetryIn Tender Travis Cebula transforms raw, emotional experiences into preserved moments of artful reflection. —Janaka Stucky
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Test 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 -
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That 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 -
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The Absence Of The Loved by Wade Stevenson
PoetryLeft. There is the absence There is the wound the shock, the rage, the disbelief and the grief and more for the sinking, suffering heart. In these poems, Wade Stevenson realistically surrounds the departed love with his private raw emotions and with the most wonderful metaphors, fantastic in fact, and with them the poet in his craft knits his hurt into poetry. — Michael Basinski$16.00 -
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The Age of Greenhouses by Anne-Adele Wight
PoetryIt is exciting watching a new Anne-Adele Wight poetry fan holding her latest book, their faces beaming until they look up with Wow! Her poetry is a hidden American treasure no longer as more and more poets are sharing her books. It is a privilege to read a poet who has dedicated years to her craft, giving the world some of the best poems we will ever read. The Age of Greenhouses made me say Wow over and over! Let the celebration begin! ––CA Conrad$16.00 -
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The American Godwar Complex by Patrick Herron
PoetryPatrick Herron is the author of the chapbooks Man Eating Rice (Blaze VOX) and Three Poems (Gateway Songbooks). His poems and essays have recently appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Jacket, Fulcrum, in the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, and in the anthology 100 Days (Barque Press).$16.00 -
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The Arctic Circle by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryThe symmetrical aspects of this narrative make for a pristine evocation of crisis and overcoming. Kristina Darling’s fable resists disintegration, challenging instead a forceful awareness. The dynamics here do not permit abjection to pulverize presence. —Brenda Iijima$16.00 -
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The Bird Hoverer By Aaron Belz
PoetryJust what American poetry needs: lots of fresh poems that are weirdly conventional one minute, satisfyingly strange the next. On the surface this violent assault on complacency is playfully serious, but deep down, you notice that the surfaces of these gentle poems glint and catch the light as they turn over and over, patiently waiting for your attention. —John Tranter$16.00 -
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The Blooming Void by Peter C. Fernbach
PoetryIn The Blooming Void he enacts this. From a “sea of maroon”; from the “sludge” of a polluted world; from the genesis of a “Fruit Fly in Pile of Dirty Laundry”: from these and more emerges “a contrivance of mind” that may result in “A[n] [imperfect] human attempt/At control and understanding,” but, [imperfect] or not, what else have we? —Dr. David Landrey$16.00 -
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The 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 -
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The 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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The Camel’s Pedestal, Poems 2009–2017 by Anne Tardos
Poetry, SuperstarsFree-ranging, intelligent, a poetry of wit and survival—to be “crazy not to go crazy” and not going crazy and making art in the face of that: “finally taking a stand” . . . “there is no shortage of things to do on the path to a better life” and “letting things be,” “tip-toeing around the good and the terrible”—Maurice Scully$16.00 -
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The Color Symphonies by Wade Stevenson
PoetryThis is a visionary work. It’s a torrent, a whirlwind, a symphony of colors. It’s a blazing apocalypse of rainbows, a dazzling setting sun of the material world. Surely it was written in some god-inspired, intoxicated state reflected through the rational mind of a star-struck color scientist. —Aloysius Werner$18.00 -
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The Demotion of Pluto by Deborah Meadows
Drama, PoetryIn Deborah Meadows’ The Demotion of Pluto runs of poetry bleed into plays. The title play recasts Sophocles’ Philoctetes; Obstacle Plays riffs on Michael Fried’s Art and Objecthood that considers minimalist sculpture as both theatrical and an obstacle; and Nothing to Do works intensive differences between brilliant and crumbling minds situated in the aftermath of street struggle.$16.00 -
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The Desense of Nonfense by Megan A. Volpert
PoetryNot since the Nature Theater of Oklahoma has such a cast of characters been recruited in the name of narrative theory and good clean fun. Starring icons of culture high and low, from Slavoj Zizek to Simon Cowell, from Akira Kurosawa to Will Ferrell, Volpert's essay on nonsense is a Technicolor triumph. —Jena Osman$16.00 -
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The Distancing Effect by Maryam Monalisa Gharavi
PoetryA beautifully tangled collection of poems that reveal an intense focus on the world, not as a singular philosophical phenomenon but a series of sensual encounters that always seem to be on the verge of revelation. Like all great writers, Maryam Monalisa Gharavi leads us to the precipice of some greater understanding of our circumstances and ourselves, then withdraws and encourages us to take the final step into the wondrous ether on our own. —Michael Thomsen$16.00 -
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The Ecstasy of Capitulation By Daniel Borzutzky
Poetry"Lucretius and Epictetus; Franz Kafka and Daniil Kharms; Lucretia Mott and William James; William Bronk and Bernadette Mayer: Daniel Borzutzky is their heir and equal. He is a world class author. - Gabriel Gudding$16.00 -
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The Edge of the Underworld by Michael Ruby
Poetry“Call it immersion”: take Michael Ruby’s sibilant heterographic tour of the underworld’s underwords and rediscover in these homophonic burrows that sonic intersection is ear + imagination. —Judith Goldman$16.00 -
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The Empress of Frozen Custard & Ninety-Nine Other Poems by Jorge Guitart
PoetryJorge Guitart’s poetry is not for the masses but it is for everyone. The Empress of Frozen Custard is awash in marvels. Guitart is a master of language, a tongue trickster, a feller of fashion. In this, his second volume of English poetry, he has done it again, producing a collection that sings and laughs and cries all at once. In the words of Yankee fans praising one of their most beloved players, “Hip, hip, Jor-gé!” —Pablo Medina$16.00 -
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The Epic of Hell Freeze by Richard K. Ostrander
PoetryThe poems in Richard K. Ostrander's The Epic of Hell Freeze (What Stays the News) shift from allusion (Andromeda, Abraham, Sisyphus) to illusion: ""He walks through walls/ On the other side of silver."" Ostrander's attention to ""language's legerdemain"" ties seemingly unrelated poems to each other like knotted scarves pulled from a magician's sleeve, using alliteration—""And a single sentence,/ Tautness of telephone lines""—as well as slant rhyme—""Flies, happy in their bottles/ Freer than fish/ that fly/ Melody or malady/ I don't know which""—and clichés twisted into new configurations—""There's a sty in the sky,/ Here's a shoulder to fry on."" —Beth Copeland$16.00 -
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The Equation That Explains Everything by Andrew Cox
PoetryPoets usually either rhapsodize the world or explain it. In The Equation that Explains Everything, Andy Cox shows us that he is an explainer, but he explains through a wondrous broken logic where blind men drive under the influence of dogs, rubber snakes entice the world with plastic apples, and two plus two equals five but all the tiny sighs in the hours before quitting time add up to nothing. —Richard Newman$16.00 -
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The Exploding Nothingness of Never Define by Anne Tardos
Poetry, SuperstarsAnne Tardos, whose poetry & performances have delighted us for several decades now, emerges in her new book as the innovator of a work that incorporates, like the best of our poetry, a full range of thoughts & experiences & makes them stick in mind & memory. —Jerome Rothenberg$22.00 -
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The History of My World Tonight by Daniel Nester
PoetryIn The History of My World Tonight, Daniel Nester re-envisions The Beach Boys, The Brady Bunch, and the Bible. He takes on the Munchkins, Montale, Monet, and masturbation. But that’s just the beginning. In these intimate confessional and experimental poems, Nester delivers a complex psyche along with deadpan social commentary. This is an engagingly funny and tender book. —Denise Duhamel$16.00 -
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The Homesick Mortician by Peter Mladinic
New Releases, PoetryMladinic gives us a world where “a man with a wooden leg/ and a boy in a white shirt/ talk weather/ and look like an argument.” The strange and the mundane combine into sharp mystery. This is exquisite poetry and worthy of your time. —Jeff Weddle$18.00 -
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The Hunger in Our Eyes by Jared Demick
PoetryJared Demick's The Hunger in Our Eyes is a little bit country and a whole lot of cross-country(ies). The shape-shifting Americana here scores a playfully re-visionist choreography that brings into focus what imperial eyes typically miss: the accidents of landscape, the histories of food, the body's crossings. —Urayoán Noel$16.00 -
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The Ida Pingala by Debrah Morkun
PoetryDebrah Morkun's words compose dynamic fields. Her efforts push poetry onto the page to energize language by reaching toward its limits. Between the ""janus-lipped morning"" and ""miserable neighborhoods"" a resistance forms according to what can be said and what actually gets said. Morkun confronts opposing forms and possibilities (like the ida and pingala of the title). Here poetry is electrified by the tensions of sound and meaning. ~ Hoa Nguyen$16.00 -
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The Impossible Picnic by Mark Tursi
PoetryMark Tursi’s Impossible Picnic sets up camp not on grassy Romantic heights but on the astroturf of our mental backyards and interiors. In its wild juxtapositions and deadpan humor, one hears unsettling echoes emanating from the “vapory camaraderie” of modernism. Here “the world is all this, plus the world,” as the title propels us toward a super-abundance that only initially seems “impossible.” —Elizabeth Willis$16.00 -
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The Jointure by Clayton Eshleman
Poetry, Superstars“What does it mean to see with the eyes of the soul?” In The Jointure, Clayton Eshleman offers an answer to this question in language of visionary symbolic consciousness. Intimate and expansive, psychological and anthropological data germinates this fecundating exploration and extrapolation of inner wilderness and the essence of imagination. In The Jointure, “memory is fracture” – the depths of horror enshroud the horror of depths – but imagination is revealed as the “keelson of paradise.” —Stuart Kendall$16.00 -
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The Landfill Dancers by Mary Kasimor
PoetryIn this memorable collection, Mary Kasimor enacts an ""image drama"" and ""performance burlesque"" across every poetic line, surprising the reader with a new ""species of FORM."" Watch your step because The Landfill Dancers will take you where the wild is always open. —Craig Santos Perez$16.00 -
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The Last Place I Lived by K. Alma Peterson
PoetryOne of the early poems in this book concludes: “My wild side would like to know.” If yours would too, read The Last Place I Lived. The collection abounds in wit and verbal play, yet the reward in reading comes from an intelligence lodged deep, directing the lines in sophisticated ways, the “afterimage // glassily repeated in the hawk’s beveled eye.” —Julie Funderburk$16.00 -
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The Living Air by Masiela Lusha
PoetryWhen I discovered Masiela Lusha’s impressive list of accomplishments in the cinematic arts, I have to say I was not surprised in the least. Ms. Lusha’s poems skillfully dramatize the most ethereal of philosophical ideas, showing us what’s at stake as we “stalk the truth.” This book will invite you in, then “release you as a learner,” subtly illuminating through its performative poetics what questions we should be asking of the world around us. —Kristina Marie Darling$16.00 -
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The Logic of Clouds by Marc Pietrzykowski
PoetryMarc Pietrzykowski lives and writes in Lockport, NY, with his wife and various furry mendicants. He has published elsewhere, has friends and so forth, but he would much rather you read the inside of the book than the back cover.$16.00 -
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The Long Way Home by Leonard Gontarek
New Releases, PoetryGontarek's enthusiasm and imagination pour through poem after poem: surprising juxtapositions and fragments from Krishnamurti and other meditative guides and philosophers show a wide range of experiences and objects in a kind of praise song. —Sean Singer$26.00 -
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The Lost Positive by Elizabeth Strauss Friedman
New Releases, PoetryIn The Lost Positive, her stellar second collection of poetry, Elizabeth Strauss Friedman casts the slog of domestic, compulsory heterosexuality into the stars—the result is a new mythology, “a wandering bruise / of glamour,” in which women refuse to negatively refract. —Jenny Molberg$18.00 -
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THE MERCURY POEM by Jared Schickling
PoetryWith THE MERCURY POEM, Jared Schickling brings us an oddly reversible apocalypse—the story of individuals grappling with their own bleak place in history. “A tsunami ruining the beach / during an election season,” “the exclusion zone is breeding,” and as an elegy to television, the poet finds normalcy in the unlivable. —Jonathan Penton$16.00 -
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The Metaphysician’s Daughter by Dick Ostrander
Poetry"These poems are intriguing , packed with surprising situations, encounters and characters. The poet often captures moments that hit the jackpot such as with "Beauty of the Beast." This is poetry that not only needs to be read more than once, but read out loud and then discussed and pondered." —Sara Claytor$16.00 -
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The Metempsychosis of Salvador Dracu by Daniel Y. Harris (Volume VI of The Posthuman Series)
New Releases, PoetryDaniel Y. Harris’ The Posthuman Series is an amazing tour de force! —Marjorie Perloff$22.00 -
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The Misprision of Agon Hack (Volume IV: The Posthuman Series) by Daniel Y. Harris
New Releases, PoetryDaniel Y. Harris’ Posthuman Series is an amazing tour de force! —Marjorie Perloff$18.00 -
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The Moon and Other Inventions: Poems After Joseph Cornell by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryDarling creates a lattice of explicitly feminine apperception around the works of Joseph Cornell. The result is a haunting parascription, of a piece with Cornell's metaphysical idiom while substantially Othering any sustained encounter with his work. —G.C. Waldrep$16.00 -
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The Moon Blooms in Occupied Hours by Anis Shivani
PoetryShivani is at the height of his powers as his lens sweeps with cinematic confidence from the grand to the minute and his voice encompasses the roaring horrors of war and the quieter moments of reflection and grace.—Wendy Chin-Tanne$16.00 -
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The Mouth Of The Bay by Michael Ruby
PoetryIn poems written on the rocky coast of Frenchman Bay in Maine, Michael Ruby begins with wisdom and ends with delight, reversing Frost’s famous dictum about poetry. The Mouth of the Bay begins with the wisdom of the Eleatic philosophers on the coasts of southern Italy and Sicily—“There is no beginning and there is no end”—and their calls for purification. Ruby writes the words that appear in his mind when he repeats sayings of Pythagoras, Xenophanes, Empedocles and others.$16.00 -
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The Olfactions: Poems on Perfume by Anne Gorrick
PoetrySomeone once said that after a Bach sonata, the silence that follows is still Bach. Well, after a poem from Anne Gorrick, the silence that follows is a whiff of patchouli, tar, vanilla, tea and other things... Thank you. Thank you. —Fabrice Penot,$16.00 -
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The Paris Poems by Suzanne Burns
Poetrythis is subject matter clichéd a century ago; all of it forced into newness, not by the references of modernity, but by the observance of a well-referenced poetess of now— a potential beginning for this century's cliché. —c.vance,$16.00 -
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The Pink by Jared Schickling
Poetry“The Pink” reads like a bio-centric futurist work of patterned effeminate lyricism and distortion whose themes are fatherhood, motherhood, and childhood, while playing heartily at inherited themes and motifs through re-worked fairy tales, observations (recordings), and children’s verses.$16.00 -
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The Radiant World by Dan Featherston
PoetryDan Featherston is the author of three other booklength collections of poetry, The Clock Maker's Memoir (Cuneiform Press, 2007), United States (Factory School, 2005), and Into the Earth (Quarry Press, 2005), as well as five shorter collections. He lives in Philadelphia and teach at Temple.$16.00 -
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The Rapture of Eddy Daemon: Volume I The Posthuman Series by Daniel Y. Harris
PoetryFinally: a posthuman translation of Shakespeare. I'm glad Daniel Y. Harris beat Watson at it. There are still large chunks of human in his kind lineation." —Andrei Codrescu$16.00 -
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The Real World by Emma Winsor Wood
New Releases, PoetryMost of us don’t know how to deal with the reality of the unrealities in which we find ourselves living. Wood shows us one way to do so—and it’s a great one, one in which we can be real. — Lyn Hejinian$16.00 -
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The Refinery by janna plant
PoetryJanna Plant is an alchemist. She unearths the twin elements of humor and despair from their commonplace lodgings in the language, and reconstitutes them as brilliance. —Anne Kennedy$16.00 -
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The Reganites: Vol 1 & Vol 2 by Tim Roberts
PoetryHere is a monstrous demonstration of the bloat conditions of our world. Written to extremes, as if to show how truly, really, impossible the current state of language and culture has become. What can Literature do except stop a door—or trip us up, physically as well as lyrically? Who speaks in this massive text, elegantly crafted on the page in wry, deliberate, imitation of a sacred text, twin-columned? —Johanna Drucker$50.00 -
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The Reincarnation of Anna Phylactic (Volume III: The Posthuman Series) by Daniel Y. Harris
PoetryDaniel Y. Harris’ Posthuman Series is an amazing tour de force! —Marjorie Perloff$16.00 -
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The Resurrection of Maximillian Pissante (Volume V: The Posthuman Series) by Daniel Y. Harris
New Releases, PoetryDaniel Y. Harris’ Posthuman Series is an intoxicating brew of quasis: scientific, esoteric, bibliographic, geologic, lettristic. Who knows what poetry lurks in the heart of codes? It’s as if we are privy to the history of knowledge from its other side, before as much as after. These poems are an explosion in a pataquerics factory. —Charles Bernstein$18.00 -
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The Sensory Cabinet by Mark DuCharme
PoetryThrillingly centrifugal, “erupting into the air” [61], the energetic observations and exactly struck insights of The Sensory Cabinet make it a book to grab onto right now. Caster of the news into newness, our anchorman aloft, “Like Dan Rather on Helium” [15], Mark DuCharme is writing work that is exciting in every sense of the word. —Laura Mullen
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The Slip by George Tysh
PoetryHis engagement with the variable foot of William Carlos Williams gives a new spring and all to George Tysh’s remarkable collection The Slip. For much of the book, especially the haunting title poem, an isolated phrase appears, then the next descends, and then another, each open space miming the way breath appears in human speech, as an aid to understanding and an absolute electric charge—at times one of volcanic intensity. —Kevin Killian$16.00 -
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The Solace of Islands by Ansie Baird
PoetryThe poet is master of her craft and poetic magic manifests in each poem. The magic is all the music of the poetry. Without question, the theme of this poetry is solemn, but there are sparks of humor and tenderness that light the way through the musical landscape. An island is, of course, an enclosed space, a protected place, for poet Ansie Baird the place of the very human heart. —Michael Basinski$16.00 -
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The Speed of Our Lives by Grace C. Ocasio
PoetryThese bracing poems celebrate everything from nature to history, to the family, to the famous – and in each, she discovers the music and meaning that lets them bloom in all their strangeness and surprise. —Elaine Equi$16.00 -
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The Spider Sermons by Robert Krut
PoetryWith a winning mixture of verve and tenderness, the poems in The Spider Sermons confront the extreme significance of our daily lives. It's the most passionate of come-ons, but with the kindest of intentions. —Kazim Ali$16.00 -
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The Sun & The Moon by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryIn poems lit by an incendiary marriage, Kristina Marie Darling traces a story that begins, as stories often do, “as a small mark on the horizon.” Brave and haunted, these poems burn down to ash and winter, daring to unlock the spell of memory’s silver flashings. The small remains, like distant stars, make a moving portrait. —Mary Ann Samyn$16.00 -
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The Trapeze of Your Flesh by Charles Rammelkamp
New Releases, PoetryCharles Rammelkamp’s exposition of the “flesh trapeze” that swings through American entertainment and culture, via the voices of some of its most prominent acrobats, is vital to an understanding of our culture. —Roman Gladstone$20.00 -
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The Trees of Surprise edited by Marjorie Norris
PoetryTrees of Surprise has been published by Buffalo’s BlazeVox Books. It is and edited anthology which responds to the loss of trees during the October 2006 storm.$16.00 -
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The Tryst of Thetica Zorg Volume II: The Posthuman Series Daniel Y. Harris
PoetryDaring, adventurous, exotic, & necessary, —can this be the exemplary, posthuman poesis? You bet it can if it’s The Tryst of Thetica Zorg. Ushering the reader into the nefarious underworld of computer viruses, Daniel Y. Harris delivers a shimmering dramatic intensity swathed in the rare glow of an Epochal Imagination. —Heller Levinson$16.00 -
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The Unfinished: Books I-VI by Mark DuCharme
PoetryMark DuCharme's beautiful poems teach us to read all over again: mystery, the situation of person, the texture of dream and the texture of awareness: The Unfinished is a tough book, a necessary book. —Joseph Lease$18.00 -
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The Visit by Ana T. Kralj
Fiction, New Releases, Poetry1992. The war rages in Bosnia and Croatia. In Slovenia, which has escaped the war’s horrors on its own soil, a high school graduate finds herself profoundly shattered. Unable to transition from the safe environment of the high school to the loosely structured student life, struggling to come to grips with an unsuccessful relationship and tormented by her helplessness in the face of the war, she embarks on a harrowing search for the meaning of her existence. But the streets of Ljubljana leave her empty-handed. Until something changes. A visitor comes by.$22.00 -
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The White Visitation by David Brennan
PoetryNot since the Book of Ecclesiastes has such litany been deployed to smack dab us with a wall of words. In The White Visitation, David Brennan pressure treats language, syntax, grammar, content into a layered labyrinthine quilted fabric of strata. One doesn’t so much as read as one peels, strips, skins the text—a sonic archeology, a narrative dig. Nothing new under the sun? Don’t count on it. The White Visitation is the plasma at the sun’s very core. —Michael Martone$16.00 -
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Theater of the Tongue by Diana Adams
PoetryDiana Adams book, Theaters of the Tongue , gives the reader a fascinating canvas of words, some words best described as word food. The reader is treated to lines like “salmon are lead by bells inside.” —Mary Kasimor$16.00 -
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Thief by Katrinka Moore
PoetryIn a series of interlocking text-image meditations and small narratives, Katrinka Moore’s Thief rewrites the literary impulse to claim. This thievery confesses our visitor status upon body, mind, land, and book and asks, “So, you select your shape purposefully? How to explore this obscure site? How does the world assemble?” The journey is gendered: how does a woman write into a literary and family history that was actually never so sure of its claims, its own thievery? – Jill Magi$18.00 -
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This Visit by Susan Lewis
PoetryIn the fissures and gaps of a malleable lexicon, Susan Lewis’s playful, punning, musical lyrics create spaces for a reader to explore. In her “mythic stickiness” edges are blurred in service to an “everlasting loop.” Her poems are oddly intimate, full of a wise skepticism and a quirky grace — perhaps more of a place to live in than to visit. —Joanna Fuhrman$16.00 -
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Those Godawful Streets of Man by Stephen Bett
PoetryThis is an edgy, raw, harsh, gritty book about the contemporary cityscape—its block buildings; its loose, naked, spitting live wires; its plugged-in populace. A place where Borderliners, leeches, zombies, and drains fight it out over a man and a woman locked in a death grip.$16.00 -
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Three Suite by Christophe Casamassima
PoetryIn Christophe Casamassima’s Three Suite, recombination and erasure make visible the edges of an intelligently empathetic poetics of rediscovery. These poems are indebted to their found texts, but are always looking forward to the new line that is made possible only by way of procedural mapping. Casamassima skillfully weaves together a landscape in which the poem becomes total texture ... —Julia Bloch
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Through a Certain Forest by Laura Madeline Wiseman
PoetryWe are given a field guide to trees in Laura Madeline Wiseman’s latest book of poetry Through a Certain Forest, realizing as we step in that we are deep in the mythos of ourselves. Each poem is a persona, each tree species recounting its survival from humans. Us homo sapiens are the trolls lurking through the middle of the collection. In the midst of bombings and ecological disasters caused by us is the private life of the speaker, too, living with her own personal troll. —Dennis Etzel, Jr$16.00 -
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TO BE SUNG by Michael Kelleher
Poetry"Michael Kelleher's deft poems have often a wry poignance and sing the old songs with fresh particulars. So it's as ever where we are that counts, and that's where these poems are, always." —Robert Creeley -
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to go without blinking by Aimee Herman
PoetryAimee Herman is a cyborg. Not in the sense of a mixture but: in her impetus. Her desire for a book to be a new kind of thinking and being in the world. As she writes in the startling Statement of Poetics that opens this passionate collection: ""This body of text practices trilingualism and contraction. Theories include gender confiscation and syntax dissection."" I liked that. A syntax that records what happens to a body even more than the words themselves. And that's just page one. Throw away ""the color pink,"" writes Herman, deeper in. —Bhanu Kapil$16.00 -
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To Hush All The Dead by William Allegrezza
New Releases, PoetryA poet bountifully rooted in geography, Allegrezza transcends the usual sense of place. In To Hush All The Dead, he reveals that every one of us faces “The Natural Trail Marked,” simultaneously experiencing a lack of understanding and hard self-questioning, as a sense of direction seems “thrown to bits and folded in blue.” —Sheila E. Murphy$18.00 -
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To The Eaves By Lisa Forrest
PoetryThese poems unfurl in the reader's palm in bird song and flight: the natural world has never been more sensuous or sung. Yet human nature, thwarted love is her true topic. Lisa Forrest's To The Eaves , takes us to the heights with grace and sweet song. —Brenda Coultas$16.00 -
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Tom Clark Collection
Poetry, SuperstarsThe Tom Clark collection contains his six titles from BlazeVOX. This is a great set of electrifying work by one of America’s foremost poets. At the Fair | Canyonesque | Feeling for the Ground | Truth Game | Evening Train | Distance$50.00 -
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too ok by Colin Herd
Poetry'Colin Herd's 'too ok' is a treasure trove of razzle-dazzle stylings, superfine wit, charismatic discretion, and a vacuuming tenderness. Herd's gift for words is exquisite and adventurous and armed to the teeth, and these poems are its perfect measurements.' —Dennis Cooper$16.00 -
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Torched Verse Ends by Steven D. Schroeder
PoetryThese are the poems of a hooch-swilling layabout, shifty-eyed sneak thief, disagreeable cuss—in short, good work, but he scares my kids. That shaved head and Satanic goatee? The yelling about the government? —Aaron Anstett$16.00 -
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Touch Me by Joseph Cooper
PoetryTouch Me is a stark and stunning inquest. Joseph Cooper offers a rich and penetrating view of a shattering love. Among lightning shapes of spaces, gentle word ways force wide this love exposing terrible wisdom through dialogic violence. Play the game. —Jane Werle$16.00 -
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TOUGH SKIN by Sarah Eaton
PoetryA mash of elevated, classic sentence structure and roiling, discomfiting scenarios/vocab. These lines kick and punch against their form. What a fight! But within, you will find many attractive and apt aphorisms. —Stacey Levine$16.00 -
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TRACK THIS: A Book of Relationship by Stephen Bett
PoetryI like these poems. Will be a great book of beauties. Very sweet and clear! —Michael Rothenberg$16.00 -
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Trailers by Michael Basinski
PoetryWith Trailers, Michael Basinski engages in a Joycean celebration offloOwering. As he 'gave up and just repeated again and again singing softly, deeply with his eyes closed', the language bloomed past the letters, numerals, wingdings, webs and crickets into a dream language of the 'noise for active space.' — derek beaulieu$16.00 -
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Transcendence by Charles Rammelkamp
New Releases, PoetryThere are good trips and bad trips. And then there is Transcendence. In poem-narratives, Charles Rammelkamp explores the psychedelic movement in America through the voices of those transformed by —Jack Skelley$18.00 -
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Transcendental Telemarketer by Beth Copeland
PoetryCopeland’s Transcendental Telemarketer contains beautiful lyrics of emotion and meditation, but it also contains rants against war and violence, and all the while it swings us from the U.S. to Japan to Afghanistan, from Islam to Buddhism to Christianity It’s compelling, playful, and well-crafted. —William Allegrezza$16.00 -
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translanations one by William R. Howe
PoetryDickinson said that it's poetry if you feel as though the top of your head were taken off. But what if it’s the whole head, down to the shoulders? (Insert Goya image of Saturn and child here.) Howe’s “translanations” are in one sense disfigurations—horrendous manglings that shock not just because of their audacity in taking such liberties with their source texts, but because of the glistening viscera they expose. —K. Silem Mohammad$16.00 -
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Transversales by Michael Gessner
PoetryThe poems in Michael Gessner’s new collection, Transversales, are formally dazzling—incisive, witty, and smart—but compassion tempers linguistic brilliance. In a series set in Paris, for instance, a visit (against advice) to the “labyrinth of tented markets,” the now-dangerous Market of Seine-Saint-Denis, is punctuated dramatically by fragmented quotations from Victor Hugo’s diary kept during the siege of Paris (1871). Quite simply, I am hooked on this book. Gessner’s poems are glory. —Cynthia Hogue$16.00 -
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Truth Game by Tom Clark
Poetry, Superstars"Very exciting... The poems have the 'now' sound of current experience; they enable one to see a little further into life as it's presently being lived." -- John Ashbery$16.00 -
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Two Books on the Gas by Jared Schickling
PoetrySchickling’s materiel-driven poetics mashes up a pre-ethicalized consciousness of the raw human reach for Life with the divination-pose of Fuel Speculation’s futurity e pluribus Unum. The “rational” to “irrational” spectrum of our present’s “present”, betrays an unspoken truth: the Republic of Fuel has, in fact, no sensate feel for time—at all. —Rodrigo Toscano$16.00 -
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Two Dreams of the Afterlife by Kelly Bancroft
PoetryThe poems in Kelly Bancroft’s Two Dreams of the Afterlife are wild and beautiful as they create worlds from the ordinary made strange, and from the strange made predictable. The materials are everyday objects and events, especially our unavoidable deep connection to figures of popular culture (the Six Million Dollar Man, Wonder Woman, Hal the computer, and John Boy Walton). —Maggie Anderson$16.00 -
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Übermütter’s Death Dance by Laura Hinton
Poetry"There is no way to make sense of a senseless death, but in Übermütter's Death Dance, Laura Hinton engages the senses to stay alive and to find, if not meaning, then some sort of vital force in the midst of tragedy. Hinton’s heterogeneous yet unified collection combines the rhetoric of documentation and daily life with the lyricism of dreams, visions and ritual. The result is profound, moving and mercurial." —Joanna Fuhrma$16.00 -
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Un storia by Steve Timm
PoetrySteve Timm’s word spectrum is brave, unnerving, dazzling, commodious; with it he composes an elegantly minimalist poetics, humorously charted in one of the most satisfying TOCs I’ve read in a long time. Suggesting neo-Joycean abundance, it leads one instead to sculpted poems of unsparing leanness. —Joan Retallack$16.00 -
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Un/Wired by Stephen Bett
PoetryIn this, his 18th book of poetry, internationally acclaimed Canadian poet Stephen Bett is back to working the sassy, edgy margins of social satire. Divided into four sections, this book opens with humor; turns to soft-edge and then to hard-edge, wicked, hilarious satire of our vapid monoculture; and concludes with a section of poems bringing in the angst of it all.$16.00 -
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Uncertain Remains by Michael Boughn
New Releases, Poetry“Michael Boughn is a cross between John Donne and Attila the Hun.” —Billie Chernicoff$18.00 -
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Uncomfortable Clowns ms #77 by James Hart III
PoetryThese poems by James Hart, III careen in the mind as they do down the page with an eagerness, to apprehend every given vicissitude of moment that comes their way. The tensions one finds, throughout the sequence, reflect the ever-fraught interface of inward and out, self and other, word and world. — Bill Berkson$16.00 -
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Under the Impression by James Berger
PoetryUnder the Impression transverses the spongy dents in the surfaces of language and memory. Anti-lyrical and insistently lyrical, frank, interrogative, and punctuated with humor, Berger’s poems articulate brilliantly an inventive scepticism of the real world’s edges and fictions. —Orchid Tierne$16.00 -
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Under the Sky They Lit Cities by Travis Cebula
PoetryHerein lies the poet's confidence in forgotten "tones revealed in full light." Cebula's poetry, like the city itself is resilient, iridescent, and every time a little different. —Elizabeth Robinson,
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UNRULY by Elysia Lucinda Smith
PoetryUNRULY is a book of rude girl poems describing threesomes, freewheeling, Joan of Arc, naked mole rats, and other R rated things. It is also a book about overcoming an upbringing in the Bible Belt. All this converges in a spilling, like when you vomit into your purse in an Uber except in this book you're sober enough to be mad.$16.00 -
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Unusual Woods by Gene Tanta
Poetry"Gene Tanta's Unusual Woods is deceptively simple and candidly devious. Reading it is like looking in a funhouse mirror for the first time." —Mike Topp$16.00 -
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VEL by Alan Sondheim
PoetryAlan Sondheim is a force of nature: a Category 5 mindstorm blowing in from all points of the compass at once. Coded and plain-speaking, philosophical and emotional, artistic and banal: to read Sondheim is to fall through a wormhole into a full world. And why shouldn't a work of art be a world’ His art is writing as a performance act even more direct than Allen Ginsberg speaking into his tape recorder. — Jim Rosenberg$16.00 -
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Versus by Stacia M. Fleegal
PoetryStacia Fleegal just can’t stop creating serious noise in her poems. She’s a writer who isn’t afraid to make words crackle and snap, especially about how social class works in America, starting at the bottom and going up. So, fair to say, you should expect something other than the tame lyric in this collection. —Eloise Klein Heal$16.00 -
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Vertigo Diary by Larry Sawyer
PoetryLarry’s poetry gives me the best kind of vertigo: the kind where you’re afraid of falling, but when you do you fall into a soft, meaty, sensual, smart ravine that shakes you pretty good, but instead of killing you it turns you into a Thinking Cocktail. What a scary and fine artist Mr. Sawyer is! —Andrei Codrescu$16.00 -
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Vexed by Jessica Grim
PoetryGrim's style masterly evokes the simplicities of poetry in the "New American" vein, with its fragments of candid observation just shimmering on the surface of the poem, but she allies it with a "post-Language" sensibility that balks before the prospect of a too-fluid Romanticism, thus spicing sensual reverie with documentary relevance. —Brian Kim Stefans$16.00 -
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Via Crucis by Peter Siedlecki, art by Catherine Burchfield Parker
New Releases, PoetrySiedlecki’s poetry resonates the surfaces and experiences of Burchfield Parker paintings. The Way of the Cross is understood as spaces of time, moments of loss, forgotten destructive comforts, and nightmare memories. ... This is a tough, beautiful, provoking book of poems. —Geoffrey Gatza$20.00 -
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Virtual Worlds Virtual People by Kay Porter Winfield
PoetryPoetry and video games don’t often occupy the same space at the same time, but Kay Porter Winfield’s Virtual Worlds Virtual People proves once and for all that they can (and maybe they should). These poems rocket with character-driven action and conflict: electrical shocks, diabolical plots, flashing swords, and cliffhangers galore. —Matt Hart$16.00 -
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VOLUME ONE (Selected Anonymous Marginalia) by Liam Agrani
PoetryVOLUME ONE represents a decade of research into found language by the poet/editor Liam Agrani. The work is composed solely of direct transcriptions of marginalia from libraries, used bookstores, and various other places. Removed from the context of the books they came from, these works become intimate abstract accidental poems, occupying the space where private literary "criticism" and found poetry meet.$16.00 -
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Vow by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryIn Kristina Marie Darling’s Vow, both text and subtext paint the fraught institution of marriage, particularly the subjectivities of the bride’s several selves. Written in candle, tale, and glass, the book “reveals, harbors, conceals” in an exciting new collection. —Carmen Gimenez Smith$16.00 -
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Waste by Emily Toder
PoetryThrough these honest, prismatic poems, Emily Toder explores what is cast off, what is extra, and what we deem unsalvageable. This book reveals that our garbage can be a lesson in our humanity and, sometimes, that lessons in our humanity are garbage. Either way, both ways, I love this revelatory book. —Sommer Browning$16.00 -
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Wave Particle Duality by Dana Curtis
PoetryIn Wave Particle Duality, Dana Curtis takes us into her nocturnal sphere, the film noir where fission splits the soul, and dark energy is all we have to go on. These are poems full of twisted desire and visionary clarity, pure need and thin hope. Throughout her language is as sharp as a pinprick. She cites Hogarth, which is apt, because Dana Curtis is a moralist, with gallows humor and a sense of the perverse. "Will you be my infidel," she asks? Oh, yes, we think. Just keep on talking. —David Lazar$16.00 -
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What A Bicycle Can Carry by Laura Madeline Wiseman
PoetryIn a moment when our nation feels divided and strange, Wiseman’s authoritative, sensitive guide provides a bicycle-eye view of a beautiful, complicated country. —Nancy Reddy$16.00 -
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What She Knows by Marcia Roberts
PoetryBy assembling these fragments into a whole, the poet Marcia Roberts has saved telling moments from a lifetime's experience; and having done so with care, now generously shares them. —Tom Clark$16.00 -
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Whatever Speaks on Behalf of Hashish by Anis Shivani
Poetry, Superstars“Both arresting and inventive, Anis Shivani’s new poems reveal a rich sense of wonder at this complex thing we call humanity. Smart, unflinching, and relevant—this book demands rereading.” — Ryan G. Van Cleave$16.00 -
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When I Said Goodbye By Didi Menendez
Poetry"Sexy, involved, intense, hilarious, hip, weird, intelligent, witchy wild in a way one thinks of female owls, maybe with embers of fire under their wings, such wide eyesight: This Is A Damn Good Book!" —ron androla$16.00 -
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Where a road had been by Matthew Shears
PoetryWriting in the dark, in the desert of the real, Matt Shears explores profound and necessary possibilities. Shears moves with extraordinary grace through critique and meditation. Few poets these days are writing poetry this brave. This is a wonderful book. This is a brilliant poet. —Joseph Lease
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Window On The City by Michael Ruby
Poetry“Unreal City,” intones Mr. Eliot in his “The Waste Land,” bracketed by “One must be so careful these days” and “Under the brown fog of a winter dawn…. ” Ruby writes “velocity,” athwart “toodle to tabasco” and “orange sunshine.” What’s cold and taut in Eliot—strained—is hot and loose in Window on the City. —Sam Truitt$16.00 -
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within sky by Marcia Arrieta
New Releases, PoetryThere is a great sense of serenity and peace in Marcia Arrieta’s poems, although we can feel, sense, and absorb the rough and disquieting textures of the world she offers. —Andrea Moorhead$18.00 -
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Women and Ghosts by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryWomen and Ghosts is a book for the brokenhearted: "Iced over with sadness," its speaker says (or doesn't), "I can no longer speak." In ghost text stricken from the record, she also says (or doesn't): "I wonder how someone else's life can seem so much my own." She means Desdemona's. Ophelia's. Juliet's. Cleopatra's. Lavinia's. But when I read these words, I think: not theirs, hers — I wonder how her life can seem so much my own. I love this book. I honor it. I cherish it. I lose myself in its tragedies, in the absences and silences of women's lives and I feel less desperate, less anxious, less alone. —Molly Gaudry$16.00 -
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Xo – A Tale For The New Atlantis by André Spears
PoetryWhen I first read Xo: A Tale for the New Atlantis, it just blew my socks off—Homer's cadence and epic sweep, hallucinatory Phil Dickian channelings, hysterically funny post-Pynchonesque deconstructions of American materialism ... —J.P. Harpignies$16.00 -
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Your Wilderness & Mine by David Highsmith
PoetryDavid Highsmith is the proprietor of Books & Bookshelves in San Francisco.$16.00 -
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Zero Summer by Andrew Demcak
Poetry"ZERO SUMMER's skinny, sticky, cock-swaggering poems take 'bloody comfort' in Andrew Demcak's lubricated, literary longing, the bourbon 'sweet / with unimagined grief,' the very words 'laboring / over / the soup-bones of literature.' This is a book that will get under your fingernails." —Randall Mann$16.00 -
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Zero’s Blooming Excursion by Jared Schickling
PoetryReading Zero’s Blooming Excursion is like hovering above one’s own body while living; it’s unsettling ecstasy. Read this book and you’ll “find yourself next to yourself.” —Sasha Steensen$16.00 -
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“now, 1/3” and thepoem by Demosthenes Agrafiotis | Translated by John Sakkis and Angelos Sakkis
Poetry, Superstars"A book of temporally organized form that renounces time, that disassembles form. Demosthenes Agrafiotis' poetry argues, chafes, bristles, and unrelentingly chomps at the bit of its own constraint, as well as at every other human construct, linguistic or otherwise, that might serve as a convenient container for consciousness. ""now, 1/3"" is an extraction of sand from the hourglass… as if the sand weren't free to begin with. —Harold Abramowitz$16.00