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QuickviewScorched 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 -
QuickviewSecondary 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 -
QuickviewSecret’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 -
QuickviewSecrets 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 -
QuickviewSensational 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 -
QuickviewSHE, A BLUEPRINT by Michelle Naka Pierce and Sue Hammond West
Poetry$25.00It 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 -
QuickviewShowgirls – 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 -
QuickviewSHRINKRAP, 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 -
QuickviewSidestep 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 -
QuickviewSilent 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 -
QuickviewSiphonic (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 -
QuickviewSisyphus 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 -
QuickviewSix 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 -
QuickviewSKY 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 -
QuickviewSlab 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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QuickviewSleeping 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 -
QuickviewSMEAR 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 -
QuickviewSoldatesque / 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 -
Quickviewsome 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 -
QuickviewSome 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 -
QuickviewSomething 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 -
QuickviewSomewhere Over the Pachyderm Rainbow by Jennifer C. Wolfe
Poetry$16.00Once 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 -
QuickviewSongBu®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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