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QuickviewMaps 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 -
QuickviewMarine 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 -
QuickviewMasks 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 -
QuickviewMeet 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 -
QuickviewMemeWars by Aldon Lynn Nielsen With E. Ethelbert Miller
Critical Thinking, New Releases, Poetry$22.00As 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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QuickviewMetamerican by Seth Abramson
Poetry, SuperstarsAmerica has been awaiting the arrival of a poet like this for a generation. —Barn Owl Review$16.00 -
QuickviewMingling 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 -
QuickviewMinnows 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 -
QuickviewMiscellaneous 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 -
QuickviewMOCK 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 -
QuickviewMolloy 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 -
QuickviewMoon 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 -
QuickviewMorpheu 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 -
QuickviewMorphology 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 -
QuickviewMoth 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 -
QuickviewMultiverse 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 -
QuickviewMusee 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 -
QuickviewMuseum 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 -
QuickviewMuseum 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 -
QuickviewMy 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 -
QuickviewMy 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 -
QuickviewMy 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 -
QuickviewMy 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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