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QuickviewMy 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 -
QuickviewMy 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 -
Quickviewmylar 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 -
QuickviewN7ostradamus 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 -
QuickviewNectar 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 -
QuickviewNew 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 -
QuickviewNightshades 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 -
QuickviewNine 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 -
QuickviewNine 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 -
QuickviewNIV: 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 -
QuickviewNo 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 -
QuickviewNo 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 -
QuickviewNoah’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 -
QuickviewNomads 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 -
QuickviewNon 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 -
QuickviewNotes 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 -
QuickviewO 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 -
QuickviewOccasion 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 -
Quickviewocean 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 -
QuickviewOf 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 -
QuickviewOne 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 -
QuickviewOngoing 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 -
QuickviewOpera 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 -
QuickviewOponearth 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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