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QuickviewInventories 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 -
QuickviewIona 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 -
QuickviewIthaca: 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 -
QuickviewJanuary 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 -
QuickviewJoys: 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 -
QuickviewKATA 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 -
QuickviewKewalo 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 -
QuickviewLAST 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 -
QuickviewLe 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 -
QuickviewLecture 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 -
QuickviewLetters 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 -
QuickviewLexicartographies 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 -
QuickviewLIFT 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 -
QuickviewLight at the End of the Word by Cheryl Pallant
New Releases, Poetry$18.00Pallant’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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QuickviewLight 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 -
QuickviewLIGHT-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 -
QuickviewLilith 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 -
QuickviewLimitless 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 -
Quickviewlithic 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 -
QuickviewLittle 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 -
QuickviewLittle: 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 -
QuickviewLove 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 -
QuickviewMadstones 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 -
QuickviewMainstream 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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