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QuickviewThe Absence Of The Loved by Wade Stevenson
PoetryLeft. There is the absence There is the wound the shock, the rage, the disbelief and the grief and more for the sinking, suffering heart. In these poems, Wade Stevenson realistically surrounds the departed love with his private raw emotions and with the most wonderful metaphors, fantastic in fact, and with them the poet in his craft knits his hurt into poetry. — Michael Basinski$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Age of Greenhouses by Anne-Adele Wight
PoetryIt is exciting watching a new Anne-Adele Wight poetry fan holding her latest book, their faces beaming until they look up with Wow! Her poetry is a hidden American treasure no longer as more and more poets are sharing her books. It is a privilege to read a poet who has dedicated years to her craft, giving the world some of the best poems we will ever read. The Age of Greenhouses made me say Wow over and over! Let the celebration begin! ––CA Conrad$16.00 -
QuickviewThe American Godwar Complex by Patrick Herron
PoetryPatrick Herron is the author of the chapbooks Man Eating Rice (Blaze VOX) and Three Poems (Gateway Songbooks). His poems and essays have recently appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Jacket, Fulcrum, in the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, and in the anthology 100 Days (Barque Press).$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Arctic Circle by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryThe symmetrical aspects of this narrative make for a pristine evocation of crisis and overcoming. Kristina Darling’s fable resists disintegration, challenging instead a forceful awareness. The dynamics here do not permit abjection to pulverize presence. —Brenda Iijima$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Best Word for the Job of Mourning by Jessica Baron
PoetryJessica Baron realizes mourning’s best words refuse their own elegiac nature. In her long sequence death is present not as a shadowy realm from which the loved one will be recalled by the poet’s words; in this poetry death is a place of honest witness.—Dan Beachy-Quick,$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Bird Hoverer By Aaron Belz
PoetryJust what American poetry needs: lots of fresh poems that are weirdly conventional one minute, satisfyingly strange the next. On the surface this violent assault on complacency is playfully serious, but deep down, you notice that the surfaces of these gentle poems glint and catch the light as they turn over and over, patiently waiting for your attention. —John Tranter$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Blooming Void by Peter C. Fernbach
PoetryIn The Blooming Void he enacts this. From a “sea of maroon”; from the “sludge” of a polluted world; from the genesis of a “Fruit Fly in Pile of Dirty Laundry”: from these and more emerges “a contrivance of mind” that may result in “A[n] [imperfect] human attempt/At control and understanding,” but, [imperfect] or not, what else have we? —Dr. David Landrey$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Breath by Cindy Savett
New Releases, PoetryCindy Savett’s The Breath accesses and occupies the territory, real and true, where the living can dwell with the dead. The speaker’s beloved daughter lives on, in spirit and lyric, as she “steps into the stable of vanished gods.” Savett’s skillful elegies hold the daughter’s hand and reader’s attention across the threshold. — Jason Labbe, author of Spleen Elegy$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Built World by George Albon
New Releases, PoetryIn The Built World connection is understood as the spaces between things and scenes that move continuously, resonating underneath with all represented surfaces and experiences. This is a tough, beautiful, provocative, companionable book of poems. —Anselm Berrigan$18.00 -
QuickviewThe Camel’s Pedestal, Poems 2009–2017 by Anne Tardos
Poetry, SuperstarsFree-ranging, intelligent, a poetry of wit and survival—to be “crazy not to go crazy” and not going crazy and making art in the face of that: “finally taking a stand” . . . “there is no shortage of things to do on the path to a better life” and “letting things be,” “tip-toeing around the good and the terrible”—Maurice Scully$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Color Symphonies by Wade Stevenson
PoetryThis is a visionary work. It’s a torrent, a whirlwind, a symphony of colors. It’s a blazing apocalypse of rainbows, a dazzling setting sun of the material world. Surely it was written in some god-inspired, intoxicated state reflected through the rational mind of a star-struck color scientist. —Aloysius Werner$18.00 -
QuickviewThe Demotion of Pluto by Deborah Meadows
Drama, PoetryIn Deborah Meadows’ The Demotion of Pluto runs of poetry bleed into plays. The title play recasts Sophocles’ Philoctetes; Obstacle Plays riffs on Michael Fried’s Art and Objecthood that considers minimalist sculpture as both theatrical and an obstacle; and Nothing to Do works intensive differences between brilliant and crumbling minds situated in the aftermath of street struggle.$16.00 -
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QuickviewThe Desense of Nonfense by Megan A. Volpert
PoetryNot since the Nature Theater of Oklahoma has such a cast of characters been recruited in the name of narrative theory and good clean fun. Starring icons of culture high and low, from Slavoj Zizek to Simon Cowell, from Akira Kurosawa to Will Ferrell, Volpert's essay on nonsense is a Technicolor triumph. —Jena Osman$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Distancing Effect by Maryam Monalisa Gharavi
PoetryA beautifully tangled collection of poems that reveal an intense focus on the world, not as a singular philosophical phenomenon but a series of sensual encounters that always seem to be on the verge of revelation. Like all great writers, Maryam Monalisa Gharavi leads us to the precipice of some greater understanding of our circumstances and ourselves, then withdraws and encourages us to take the final step into the wondrous ether on our own. —Michael Thomsen$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Ecstasy of Capitulation By Daniel Borzutzky
Poetry"Lucretius and Epictetus; Franz Kafka and Daniil Kharms; Lucretia Mott and William James; William Bronk and Bernadette Mayer: Daniel Borzutzky is their heir and equal. He is a world class author. - Gabriel Gudding$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Edge of the Underworld by Michael Ruby
Poetry“Call it immersion”: take Michael Ruby’s sibilant heterographic tour of the underworld’s underwords and rediscover in these homophonic burrows that sonic intersection is ear + imagination. —Judith Goldman$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Empress of Frozen Custard & Ninety-Nine Other Poems by Jorge Guitart
PoetryJorge Guitart’s poetry is not for the masses but it is for everyone. The Empress of Frozen Custard is awash in marvels. Guitart is a master of language, a tongue trickster, a feller of fashion. In this, his second volume of English poetry, he has done it again, producing a collection that sings and laughs and cries all at once. In the words of Yankee fans praising one of their most beloved players, “Hip, hip, Jor-gé!” —Pablo Medina$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Epic of Hell Freeze by Richard K. Ostrander
PoetryThe poems in Richard K. Ostrander's The Epic of Hell Freeze (What Stays the News) shift from allusion (Andromeda, Abraham, Sisyphus) to illusion: ""He walks through walls/ On the other side of silver."" Ostrander's attention to ""language's legerdemain"" ties seemingly unrelated poems to each other like knotted scarves pulled from a magician's sleeve, using alliteration—""And a single sentence,/ Tautness of telephone lines""—as well as slant rhyme—""Flies, happy in their bottles/ Freer than fish/ that fly/ Melody or malady/ I don't know which""—and clichés twisted into new configurations—""There's a sty in the sky,/ Here's a shoulder to fry on."" —Beth Copeland$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Equation That Explains Everything by Andrew Cox
PoetryPoets usually either rhapsodize the world or explain it. In The Equation that Explains Everything, Andy Cox shows us that he is an explainer, but he explains through a wondrous broken logic where blind men drive under the influence of dogs, rubber snakes entice the world with plastic apples, and two plus two equals five but all the tiny sighs in the hours before quitting time add up to nothing. —Richard Newman$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Exploding Nothingness of Never Define by Anne Tardos
Poetry, SuperstarsAnne Tardos, whose poetry & performances have delighted us for several decades now, emerges in her new book as the innovator of a work that incorporates, like the best of our poetry, a full range of thoughts & experiences & makes them stick in mind & memory. —Jerome Rothenberg$22.00 -
QuickviewThe History of My World Tonight by Daniel Nester
PoetryIn The History of My World Tonight, Daniel Nester re-envisions The Beach Boys, The Brady Bunch, and the Bible. He takes on the Munchkins, Montale, Monet, and masturbation. But that’s just the beginning. In these intimate confessional and experimental poems, Nester delivers a complex psyche along with deadpan social commentary. This is an engagingly funny and tender book. —Denise Duhamel$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Homesick Mortician by Peter Mladinic
New Releases, PoetryMladinic gives us a world where “a man with a wooden leg/ and a boy in a white shirt/ talk weather/ and look like an argument.” The strange and the mundane combine into sharp mystery. This is exquisite poetry and worthy of your time. —Jeff Weddle$18.00 -
QuickviewThe Hunger in Our Eyes by Jared Demick
PoetryJared Demick's The Hunger in Our Eyes is a little bit country and a whole lot of cross-country(ies). The shape-shifting Americana here scores a playfully re-visionist choreography that brings into focus what imperial eyes typically miss: the accidents of landscape, the histories of food, the body's crossings. —Urayoán Noel$16.00
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