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QuickviewVexed by Jessica Grim
PoetryGrim's style masterly evokes the simplicities of poetry in the "New American" vein, with its fragments of candid observation just shimmering on the surface of the poem, but she allies it with a "post-Language" sensibility that balks before the prospect of a too-fluid Romanticism, thus spicing sensual reverie with documentary relevance. —Brian Kim Stefans$16.00 -
QuickviewVia Crucis by Peter Siedlecki, art by Catherine Burchfield Parker
New Releases, PoetrySiedlecki’s poetry resonates the surfaces and experiences of Burchfield Parker paintings. The Way of the Cross is understood as spaces of time, moments of loss, forgotten destructive comforts, and nightmare memories. ... This is a tough, beautiful, provoking book of poems. —Geoffrey Gatza$20.00 -
QuickviewVirtual Worlds Virtual People by Kay Porter Winfield
PoetryPoetry and video games don’t often occupy the same space at the same time, but Kay Porter Winfield’s Virtual Worlds Virtual People proves once and for all that they can (and maybe they should). These poems rocket with character-driven action and conflict: electrical shocks, diabolical plots, flashing swords, and cliffhangers galore. —Matt Hart$16.00 -
QuickviewVOLUME ONE (Selected Anonymous Marginalia) by Liam Agrani
PoetryVOLUME ONE represents a decade of research into found language by the poet/editor Liam Agrani. The work is composed solely of direct transcriptions of marginalia from libraries, used bookstores, and various other places. Removed from the context of the books they came from, these works become intimate abstract accidental poems, occupying the space where private literary "criticism" and found poetry meet.$16.00 -
QuickviewVow by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryIn Kristina Marie Darling’s Vow, both text and subtext paint the fraught institution of marriage, particularly the subjectivities of the bride’s several selves. Written in candle, tale, and glass, the book “reveals, harbors, conceals” in an exciting new collection. —Carmen Gimenez Smith$16.00 -
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QuickviewWaste by Emily Toder
PoetryThrough these honest, prismatic poems, Emily Toder explores what is cast off, what is extra, and what we deem unsalvageable. This book reveals that our garbage can be a lesson in our humanity and, sometimes, that lessons in our humanity are garbage. Either way, both ways, I love this revelatory book. —Sommer Browning$16.00 -
QuickviewWave Particle Duality by Dana Curtis
PoetryIn Wave Particle Duality, Dana Curtis takes us into her nocturnal sphere, the film noir where fission splits the soul, and dark energy is all we have to go on. These are poems full of twisted desire and visionary clarity, pure need and thin hope. Throughout her language is as sharp as a pinprick. She cites Hogarth, which is apt, because Dana Curtis is a moralist, with gallows humor and a sense of the perverse. "Will you be my infidel," she asks? Oh, yes, we think. Just keep on talking. —David Lazar$16.00 -
QuickviewWhat A Bicycle Can Carry by Laura Madeline Wiseman
PoetryIn a moment when our nation feels divided and strange, Wiseman’s authoritative, sensitive guide provides a bicycle-eye view of a beautiful, complicated country. —Nancy Reddy$16.00 -
QuickviewWhat She Knows by Marcia Roberts
PoetryBy assembling these fragments into a whole, the poet Marcia Roberts has saved telling moments from a lifetime's experience; and having done so with care, now generously shares them. —Tom Clark$16.00 -
QuickviewWhatever Speaks on Behalf of Hashish by Anis Shivani
Poetry, Superstars“Both arresting and inventive, Anis Shivani’s new poems reveal a rich sense of wonder at this complex thing we call humanity. Smart, unflinching, and relevant—this book demands rereading.” — Ryan G. Van Cleave$16.00 -
QuickviewWhen I Said Goodbye By Didi Menendez
Poetry"Sexy, involved, intense, hilarious, hip, weird, intelligent, witchy wild in a way one thinks of female owls, maybe with embers of fire under their wings, such wide eyesight: This Is A Damn Good Book!" —ron androla$16.00 -
QuickviewWhere a road had been by Matthew Shears
Poetry$16.00Writing in the dark, in the desert of the real, Matt Shears explores profound and necessary possibilities. Shears moves with extraordinary grace through critique and meditation. Few poets these days are writing poetry this brave. This is a wonderful book. This is a brilliant poet. —Joseph Lease
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QuickviewWindow On The City by Michael Ruby
Poetry“Unreal City,” intones Mr. Eliot in his “The Waste Land,” bracketed by “One must be so careful these days” and “Under the brown fog of a winter dawn…. ” Ruby writes “velocity,” athwart “toodle to tabasco” and “orange sunshine.” What’s cold and taut in Eliot—strained—is hot and loose in Window on the City. —Sam Truitt$16.00 -
Quickviewwithin sky by Marcia Arrieta
New Releases, PoetryThere is a great sense of serenity and peace in Marcia Arrieta’s poems, although we can feel, sense, and absorb the rough and disquieting textures of the world she offers. —Andrea Moorhead$18.00 -
QuickviewWomen and Ghosts by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryWomen and Ghosts is a book for the brokenhearted: "Iced over with sadness," its speaker says (or doesn't), "I can no longer speak." In ghost text stricken from the record, she also says (or doesn't): "I wonder how someone else's life can seem so much my own." She means Desdemona's. Ophelia's. Juliet's. Cleopatra's. Lavinia's. But when I read these words, I think: not theirs, hers — I wonder how her life can seem so much my own. I love this book. I honor it. I cherish it. I lose myself in its tragedies, in the absences and silences of women's lives and I feel less desperate, less anxious, less alone. —Molly Gaudry$16.00 -
QuickviewXo – A Tale For The New Atlantis by André Spears
PoetryWhen I first read Xo: A Tale for the New Atlantis, it just blew my socks off—Homer's cadence and epic sweep, hallucinatory Phil Dickian channelings, hysterically funny post-Pynchonesque deconstructions of American materialism ... —J.P. Harpignies$16.00 -
QuickviewYour Wilderness & Mine by David Highsmith
PoetryDavid Highsmith is the proprietor of Books & Bookshelves in San Francisco.$16.00 -
QuickviewZero Summer by Andrew Demcak
Poetry"ZERO SUMMER's skinny, sticky, cock-swaggering poems take 'bloody comfort' in Andrew Demcak's lubricated, literary longing, the bourbon 'sweet / with unimagined grief,' the very words 'laboring / over / the soup-bones of literature.' This is a book that will get under your fingernails." —Randall Mann$16.00 -
QuickviewZero’s Blooming Excursion by Jared Schickling
PoetryReading Zero’s Blooming Excursion is like hovering above one’s own body while living; it’s unsettling ecstasy. Read this book and you’ll “find yourself next to yourself.” —Sasha Steensen$16.00 -
Quickview“now, 1/3” and thepoem by Demosthenes Agrafiotis | Translated by John Sakkis and Angelos Sakkis
Poetry, Superstars"A book of temporally organized form that renounces time, that disassembles form. Demosthenes Agrafiotis' poetry argues, chafes, bristles, and unrelentingly chomps at the bit of its own constraint, as well as at every other human construct, linguistic or otherwise, that might serve as a convenient container for consciousness. ""now, 1/3"" is an extraction of sand from the hourglass… as if the sand weren't free to begin with. —Harold Abramowitz$16.00
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