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Quickviewor, 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 -
QuickviewOther 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 -
QuickviewOtherwise 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 -
QuickviewOvertures 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 -
QuickviewOvid’s Creek by Sam Magavern, Art by Monica Angle
New Releases, Poetry$22.00In 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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QuickviewOxidane 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 -
QuickviewParables 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 -
QuickviewParataxis 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 -
QuickviewParis 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 -
Quickviewperimeter 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 -
QuickviewPermission 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 -
QuickviewPerson Hour by Thibault Raoult
Poetry$16.00Thibault 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 -
QuickviewPERSONAL 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 -
QuickviewPetrarchan 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 -
QuickviewPHARMAKON (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 -
QuickviewPhoems for Mobil Vices by Rich Murphy
Poetry“intriguing and somehow informative poems.” — Erica Wright, Poetry Editor, Guernica$16.00 -
QuickviewPickles & 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 -
QuickviewPieces by Hank Lazer
New Releases, PoetryThese apt, reductive verses keep a locus of faith with skill and moving commitment. —Robert Creeley$18.00 -
QuickviewPlease 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 -
QuickviewPOEM 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 -
QuickviewPoems 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 -
QuickviewPOEMS: 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 -
QuickviewPoetic 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 -
QuickviewPolaroids 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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