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QuickviewMorpheu by Alejandro Crawford
PoetryFrom political change to pocket change, shipments to shipwrecks, quotations to digital code, Alejandro Crawford never met a morphosis he didn't like, and here in these pages neither will you. —Craig Dworkin$18.00 -
QuickviewMorphology by Ruth Lepson & Walter Crump
PoetryIn the first image of Ruth Lepson and Walter Crump’s Morphology, the eye follows train tracks into a distant background of earth-meets-sky, the sky a near circle of light, presenting at the same time an enclosure and an eternity. The first text suggests a linkage of thinking and seeing: if I think it, it appears. This book is magic. I want to read it a thousand times. - Charles Alexander$18.00 -
QuickviewMoth Moon by Matt Jasper
Poetry"The Roman poet Petronius once avowed that, considered rightly, there is shipwreck everywhere. In Moth Moon, Matt Jasper goes farther still, proving time and again that shipwreck is a treasure unto itself, a perfect emerald before and after all mishap. Here, vision is rewarded with new eyes, and I am grateful for the news." —Donald Revell$16.00 -
QuickviewMultiverse by Michael Smith
PoetryReading Mike Smith’s Multiverse is like watching Adam bring forth new creatures from the mud of language by breathing their name. Two books in one, one a bestiary of bodies, the other a personal history, both are a tour de force of the anagram: a thrilling demonstration of how the constraints of language and living produce poetry in life, as poem after poem infects one another. —Steve Tomasula$16.00 -
QuickviewMusee Mechanique by Rodney Koeneke
PoetryRodney Koeneke's quick-paced, hilarious, often vulgar juxtapositions are rude to understanding but courteous as a calling card to anyone who cares about the life of language. Assembled with delight, affection, and a connoisseur's ear for the latent pleasures of babble, Musee Mechanique is a joyous record of the words in our head, c. 2006. I love this book. —Benjamin Friedlander$16.00 -
QuickviewMuseum Hours by Michael Kelleher
Poetry“Attraction has its pulls,” writes Michael Kelleher. Museum Hours maps, in moving ways, the force of gravity that art has on our lives, our attentions. One trusts the secrets that Kelleher’s poems share. With their precision, their quietness, their frequently keen but subtle wit, these poems enter the ear and the mind as intimately as a sudden sense of wonder just before “the roof gives way to the stars.” —Richard Deming$16.00 -
QuickviewMuseum of Thrown Objects by Andrew K. Peterson
PoetryImagine an ocean leaving its bed to hover above itself, where it should not be, to form a "silhouette" visible against an "afternoon." The technology of displacement is deployed, in Andrew Peterson's brilliant book, to create: not "delay" but "fusion." It makes sense, then, to build a museum out of artifacts that would, in the wetness beyond architecture, disappear by "low tide", but are instead "kept." Locked away in a decaying archive, "the thrown objects" form perverse alliances when the lights dim. Where the genitalia should be, for example, are "leafs and bugs." —Bhanu Kapil$18.00 -
QuickviewMy Aunt’s Abortion by Jane Rosenberg LaForge
New Releases, PoetryMy Aunt’s Abortion, a collection of essays and poetry by Jane Rosenberg LaForge, treks the landscape of family. It is an uneven terrain of uncertain memories and mundanities, old and discovered traumas, the vagaries of circumstance and outcome and loss—the unattainable, whether dreams or abortion. —K-B Gressitt$18.00 -
QuickviewMy Grunge of 1991 by Dennis Etzel Jr.
PoetryWithin the poem, “a list of alphabetized semblances for keeping track of occurrences out of post-trauma,” the speaker negotiates a way between quotations. Even pre-9/11, “we [were] no longer safe,” so he cloaks himself in “Grunge music, comic books, and Star Trek.” Amidst the dystopia of the First Gulf War, Dennis Etzel, Jr. brilliantly imagines a utopia where “there are no boy or girl Happy Meal toys – only Hot Wheels or Barbie.” In other words, this absorbing prose-poem sequence is an inoculation against – and hope for – the present. —Joseph Harrington -
QuickviewMy ID by Bill Lavender
PoetryLife happened before it was over. Then there is the sorting out that empties into overlaid panes, mind’s planets, which Bill Lavender navigates in My ID with consummate élan and a strong dose of “impolite, unpolitic” dissent. —Charles Bernstein$16.00 -
QuickviewMy Kinship With The Lotus Eaters by Lewis LaCook
New Releases, PoetryMy Kinship With The Lotus Eaters confirms Lewis LaCook’s status as an irresistible poet of sensuous, intelligent, surprising work. At the border of synesthesia (“Ellipses in a woodpecker’s throat”), ephemera take shape and miraculously last. —Sheila E. Murphy$16.00 -
QuickviewMy Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry
PoetryMy Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry is a collection of poetry from young Buffalo writers. The poems in this anthology capture the energy and creative output from the city’s thriving slam, alt-lit, spoken word, language poetry, academic, and publishing communities.$18.00
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