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QuickviewAn Argument of Roots by Cornelia Veenendaal
PoetryThis extra-ordinary poet is at once companionable with the natural world and wonderfully awake to the daily surprises of the city; a poet who is almost painfully attuned to the beauty that sustains us and mindful of the terrors that threaten to fell us. Over and over, Veenendaal's poems cause us to stumble upon the quotidian the way we might catch a toe on a forest snag or trip on a loose brick in the sidewalk or lurch with the sudden braking of a T car. —Marie Harris$16.00 -
QuickviewAn Internet of Containment by Anne-Adele Wight
PoetryThese poems break containment into speculation about a future where timeliness and timelessness fly hand in hand into the infinite. This is a chronicle of the exodus of souls. This is the scintillating moment when we all become homeless. “from here the aurora has changed color. ––Travis Cebula$16.00 -
QuickviewAnalects by Michael Gessner
PoetrySelected from more than four decades of journal keeping, and with additional excerpts from published essays, Analects speaks to the general reader, and specifically to those who have interests in poetry and poetics. The reader will not come away without encountering helpful insights and disclosures about writing and literature in this collection. Gessner's prose has been described as “Structurally ingenious,” (Jonathan Galassi, Farrar, Straus & Giroux,” and “A great talent,” (Ray Powers, Scott & Field).$16.00 -
QuickviewAnd Others, Vaguer Presences by David Dodd Lee
PoetryIn a note that accompanies And Others, Vaguer Presences, the most recent collection of erasures by David Dodd Lee, he uses the phrase, “the poem wanting what the poem wants.” This statement curiously corroborates my impression that these poems were actually written by the poems themselves, which had definite ideas about what they wanted and didn’t want. It’s a strange feeling, being twice removed from one’s poems, strange and refreshing. I highly recommend Lee’s version of the poems’ poems. —John Ashbery$16.00 -
QuickviewAngles of Disorder by Zachary C. Bush
Poetry“Zachary C. Bush’s ANGLES OF DISORDER is like a fairy tale devoured by science, language re-constructed into formulas and translated back into bold prose / poetry.” --J. A. Tyler$16.00 -
QuickviewAnimated Landscape by Robert Gibbons
PoetryRobert Gibbons’s new collection of poems lays bare the vast expanse of human history as a widening landscape of the most august imagination. Gibbons, a born maximalist, carries Charles Olson’s excavations into the present tense, but does so in his own measure of music, personal and specific, yet universal and inclusive. Animated Landscape never forgets history is not a then, but always now, always all around us. —Richard Deming$16.00 -
QuickviewAnon By Chris Pusateri
PoetryAnon records "soft static falling as forecast" and an ostensible caress that materializes as "an unpleasant repetition eroding his arm." Against the bleak banalities of this "experience in syndication," Chris Pusateri strikes back with a bracing admixture of silliness and patient intelligence. —Elizabeth Robinson$16.00 -
QuickviewAnswer by Mark DuCharme
PoetryEnter a shimmering, wavering, vacillating, crinkly reality, the mysterious acrobatic disjointing of what you thought you knew. Enter Mark DuCharme’s Answer, where the self-evident succumbs to the agnostic as a wizardly lyric unpins certainty. Brilliantly unpredictable, these poems divine by assemblage of a familiar quotidian and set us wondering. —Maureen Owen$16.00 -
QuickviewAnte-Animots: Idioms and Tales by Nicholas Alexander Hayes
PoetryThese idioms and tales use language as a tool to lift a hazy film away from our perception and replace it with another. Is it surgery or a theater of cruelty, a catastrophe or a joke? It’s an intervention into both the real and the imaginary—not to show us that one lies beneath the other or hidden inside like a nested doll, but to remind us that animals are composed of wounds and words and that all of us are dying. It isn’t pretty, and it is. It isn’t imaginary, and none of it is real. It’s a vicious and lyrical, lucid and fantastical, vast little book. – Stephen Beachy$16.00 -
QuickviewANTHROPOCENOMA by Chuck Richardson
PoetryA mapping of word and thought metastases to co-here (in now of us all) the crazed pathological death-life energies of our age – Richardson takes the notes inside my own head, at least, and probably taps a collective despair, why everyone can’t rouse out of diseased, disfiguring, disaster consciousness. “Sleep requires optimism. We dream of sleeping.” Planetary accord? No hope, but it is something, this general re-cognition of or against humans’ dominion over earth as a totalizing, cancerous, growth. —Magus Magnus$16.00 -
QuickviewAntibodies in the Alphabet by Linda King
PoetryKing holds us to the mark, offering no easy way out. Perhaps her poems haunt us because they’re not so much about us as our relationship to the words we use to stand in for us. Her critical lyric examines its own modus operandi and although armed with impeccable word choices peppered with wry wit, she often threatens to throw it all away and let danger take the high road. —Charles Borkhuis$16.00 -
QuickviewApollo: A Conceptual Poem by Geoffrey Gatza : Based upon the ballet by Igor Stravinsky
Poetry, SuperstarsAt its heart, this book is about Marcel Duchamp but it is also about chess. It was thought for a long while that Marcel Duchamp gave up art to play professional chess. However, this was found to be not true with the revelation of his last major artwork, Étant donnés.$35.00 -
QuickviewApparition Poems by Adam Fieled
PoetryAdam Fieled is a poet based in Philadelphia.$16.00 -
Quickviewarchipelago counterpoint by Marcia Arrieta
PoetryMarcia Arrieta’s archipelago counterpoint points to language associated with delicate inventiveness—a brand of language providing whispering emblems, musical identities, and clarity of affirmed environment….Precise, reliable appreciation engages the reader and provides context toward a thoughtful devotion to expanding understanding. —Felino A. Soriano$16.00 -
QuickviewArmored Elevator By Ryan Daley
PoetryRyan Daley is a dedicated dodgem of syntax. He is a multi kulti Mayan in Newark whose wit’s as Pan-American as any Jose O’Shay’s. He knows dystopias no longer wash unless in global neo-glot soup spracht. Armored Elevator is one of the best—certainly the edgiest—first books I’ve read in quite awhile. –Michael Gizzi$16.00 -
QuickviewAround the day in 80 worlds By Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Poetry, SuperstarsAround each day, she flies her rounds— tempestuous. DuPlessis revels in travel and records what unravels in one’s habits of attention when all the elsewheres return us to a home we are about to lose. “What is the true story of any time? / any itinerary?/ and of its traveling sorrows?” I encounter so many moments of startling honesty— each poem is a face as pert as day and as wild as night, looking up, from a labyrinth of drafts. —Divya Victor$16.00 -
QuickviewARTIFICIAL LIFE by Michael Gessner
Poetry$16.00“Artificial Life is brilliantly wrought and blindingly brilliant. Gessner is second to none. Count him, along with Ashbery and Ammons, among the most stunning intellectual poets of the twentieth century—and into the twenty-first.” —John Dolis
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QuickviewAs They Say by Robert Manery
New Releases, PoetryThese poems invent a poetic diction, mixing heady with quaint in Land-of-Cockaigne stylistic abundance. Words current, rare, archaic, and obsolete are found in As They Say syntactically pasted together in humorous tonal blends of near and far. —Louis Cabri$18.00 -
QuickviewAstrometry Orgonon by Mark Lamoureux
PoetryThe map of the heavens has long been the place where humanity has immortalized those narratives that are instructive to its understanding of the universe. The named celestial bodies represent a repository of information from diverse cultures, both ancient and modern. Each poem in this volume bears the name of the brightest named star of every visible constellation from both hemispheres.$16.00 -
Quickviewasymptotic lover//thermodynamic vents by Julia Hastain aka j/j hastain
PoetryThis book, which is unlike anything that has ever been seen before, brings something with it from the under-parts of sensation. This is the definition of vibration, of a book as the only possible membrane, the only future for a body so new it's still forming: j/j hastain gives us this. —Bhanu Kapil$16.00 -
QuickviewAt the Fair by Tom Clark
PoetryRemembering his first glimmers of vocation as a boy in power-charged mid-century Chicago, Tom Clark has given us some of the most beautiful American Poems that I know. At the Fair is the work of a living master. —Aram Saroyan$16.00 -
Quickviewatboalgfpopasasbifl: Irritations, Excrement & Wipes by Jared Schickling
PoetryJared Schickling’s latest collection—comprised of hybrid genre prose, footnotes, erasures, and struck-through lines of verse—engages compelling questions about the relationship between literary criticism and artistic practice: Is it possible for creative and critical discourses to coexist within the same rhetorical space? Can the literary arts facilitate unique—and even revolutionary—contributions to theoretical conversations? To what extent is every poem an act of deconstruction, a revision of the writing that came before one’s own? —Kristina Marie Darling$16.00 -
QuickviewAtom Parlor by Joseph Bienvenu
Poetry$16.00Exuberant as a blizzard, individual as a snowflake, Joseph Bienvenu gives us this book with the generosity of yahoo and wail. In Atom Parlor's hooting forest is a beating heart, crying out for connection, vulnerable, human, demonstrative of an extraordinary associational speed, the imagination always in triumph, in celebration as well as sorrow, dire and slapstick, and, dare I say, fun. —Dean Young -
QuickviewAutobiography of a Stutterer by Joseph Cooper
PoetryJoseph S. Cooper writes where the body does not exactly say yes but where it wants something else. By this I mean the bodies he is making are profoundly wild: propelled by phonetic imperatives and breaks in the deep structure that could be described as aberrant, but which I prefer to think of as delicious. -Bhanu Kapil$16.00
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