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QuickviewIona by Andy Martrich
PoetryQuince Eastwood: proud Iona alum, a man still drawn to that small Catholic college in New Rochelle. He's looking for love in all the wrong places, and tracking info down via the absolute worst subforum. And how could he not? Iona's a place where no one's safe from transmutation, from instantly viral dipshittery.$16.00 -
QuickviewIthaca: A Life In Four Fragments by Travis Cebula
PoetryIthaca points profoundly to the past as it creates a future with hope and precision. The story of a birth, it is also the story of her coming of age, her maturity, and her death. Ithaca is everyone, no one, word-filled and silent, as we humans are. Travis Cebula in his beautiful fragments captures the essence of being in life and its conversations with itself, others, and even God. —Maxine Chernoff$16.00 -
QuickviewJanuary Found by Michael Sikkema
PoetryMichael Sikkema’s poems are both carefully honed and fun to read. Each word seems to be happy where it is, and this can be funny, too. —Aram Saroyan$16.00 -
QuickviewJoys: a catalogue of disappointments by Christophe Casamassima
PoetryQuietude = qui etude: the study of the who , and who's studying it motivates this marvelous book, full of sharp moves based on acute attention to language. At times directly honoring his sources-- Jabès, Creeley--and at times indirectly quoting many others from Joyce to Cendrars to Lezama Lima, Casamassima proves himself a worthy inheritor of the postmodern tradition of writing that inscribes (and in doing so, refuses) its own impossibility. - Cole Swensen$16.00 -
QuickviewKATA by James Maughn
PoetryRobert Creeley wrote about poems that make rites of passage actual, poems that speak a primary language. In Kata, James Maughn speaks a primary language. He is inventing a world—and this beautiful book enacts a wry and patient intelligence, embodies physical grace. In these lines you will hear fullness of representation, and a luminous consciousness. — Joseph Lease$16.00 -
QuickviewKewalo Blues and Echoes by Gary Pak
New Releases, PoetryGary Pak’s Kewalo Blues and Echoes reflects his profound, joyous, and critical grasp of Hawai’i as entangled site of local pidgin, Native Hawaiian, oceanic, and ethnic mores of world-dwelling and culture-making. —Rob Sean Wilson$18.00 -
QuickviewLAST by E.J. McAdams
New Releases, PoetryI recommend reading E.J. McAdam's LAST out loud, singing/shouting each line in city parks, the subway, the office. Let it echo off the walls "amidst skyscrapers" in an elegy for our ecology/our planet/our lives that is devastating, but joyous still in its love for what was and what might still be possible —Marcella Durand$18.00 -
QuickviewLe Trouvère Prétendu by Peter Siedlecki
PoetryCongratulations, Peter Siedlecki, on a fascinating, dare I say 'heartwarming', book! His muse takes him in such unexpected directions, like writing a love song to his dog – that poem 'Heike' will always be one of my favorites. —Edward Field$16.00 -
QuickviewLecture Notes- A Duration Poem in Twelve Parts by Deborah Meadows
PoetryLecture Notes: A duration poem in twelve parts makes that subtle shift from seemingly raw appropriation to an act of art history right before our eyes so that the safe empiricism of "seeing is believing" is turned upside down, and believing (or culturally-driven perception) creates the scene.$16.00 -
QuickviewLetters To An Albatross by Anita Mohan
Poetry'No ideas but in things.' In lieu of abstraction and sentimentality, Anita Mohan presents 'real gardens' with real apperceptions in them. More inlooker than onlooker, she enlivens the flora and fauna of this volume with her being-in-the-landscape. —Steven Felicell$16.00 -
QuickviewLexicartographies by Nicholas Alexander Hayes
New Releases, PoetryNicholas Alexander Hayes's Lexicartographies feels like a microscopic look at an ever-shifting organism, with language serving as a tool for mapping out its evolution and tiniest particles, both fragile and brutal in their raw, naked reality. —Dominik Miles$20.00 -
QuickviewLIFT OFF: a journey of future tense by Stephen Bett
New Releases, PoetryCanadian poet Stephen Bett has been called a legend internationally. His 24th book, Lift Off: a journey of future tense, like his recent ones, is a serial poem―minimalist in its poetics, and subtle enough to sustain repeated readings. The book concerns painful, but edgy, movement out of chaos and disrepair and into new beginning, into a ‘lifting off’.$16.00
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