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QuickviewCOMMA FORK / MOVING PARTS by Ted Greenwald
Poetry, SuperstarsThrilled to be writing this blurb because I love Ted Greenwald's poetry. It is extraordinary lifelike in its interlocking pattern and surprise. I mean like life, if life were a made thing, a homemade pinwheel blown askew and ridden to the front-stoop carnival where your friends work and you can talk about how your mouth feels when you fill pronouns from the dictionary. And how you don't need the dictionary. Rearrange. The world's so modular! Set free for a minute. — Cathy Wagner$18.00 -
QuickviewComplete Dark Shadows [of My Childhood] by Tony Trigilio
PoetryBarnabas Collins, kitsch vampire but source of poet Tony Trigilio’s childhood nightmares, rises from his casket in the first sentence of this intrepid fever chart of a poem. Trigilio manages to create a riveting two-fold narrative—personal and TV-screen ekphrastic—out of piecemeal sentences (one per episode) that honor the most unlikely of poetic subjects: a cheaply produced, blooper-ridden, gothic-horror soap opera. —David Trinidad$16.00 -
QuickviewCOMPOS(T) MENTIS by Aaron Apps
PoetryKnuckles digging in the knee and not knowing it, while reading! To be disturbed and to be reminded of something you never quite knew. To be reminded and made to know that memory a new way, this is the way Aaron Apps gives it. Morphine drip as the scalpel tears open the new machine. —CA Conrad$16.00 -
QuickviewCompulsive Words by Michael Ruby
PoetryReading the poems in Compulsive Words is like taking a hard drug. —Aaron Kiely$16.00 -
QuickviewContinental Drifts by Cheryl Pallant
PoetryContinental Drifts is Pallant’s most unwieldy, sprawling, cosmic, and best book yet. It is far more tightly woven than Uncommon Grammar Cloth, and stiller than Into Stillness. What really separates this book, though, is how engaged it is (though tacitly and subtly) with the current historical/ecological moment. Basically it continues Pallant’s signature hermetic style but, just under a language that sparks with reference, resides a deeply cutting commentary on postmodern human existence in the world.$16.00 -
QuickviewContingencies of the Bourgeoisie by Grant Matthew Jenkins
New Releases, PoetryGrant Jenkins’s Contingencies of the Bourgeoisie active as a lone imaginative probity. Within its pages, poetic medicinal ranges transpire. This script unseals itself as a form of slow motion burning alive with insistent tenacity not unlike a gem of wildfires that illuminate themselves as suns within a percussive proto-season. —Will Alexander$20.00 -
QuickviewCounting Sheep Till Doomsday by Carlo Matos
PoetryCarlo Matos offers us original, honest, highly charged poetry with mature, hard-won insights and a gift for language. I recommend Counting Sheep Till Doomsday to anyone interested in modern poetry. —Simon Perchik$16.00 -
QuickviewCracked Altimeter by Joe Milford
PoetryHere are multitudes. In Joe Milford’s hell-bent Cracked Altimeter, “All the names of Heaven/become a universal phonetic.” I’m grateful for his effusiveness; these hexed poems dispense grace enough to make even the warped and wayward begin to see again, and to believe. —Steve Langan$16.00 -
QuickviewCrying Shame by Jeffrey Morgan
PoetryMorgan’s gaze is always up-tunnel, if you know what I mean; the power’s in Morgan’s ability to look and look and look. No one—neither rescuer nor castaway, not commuter, not gentle or base reader—walks away whole from Crying Shame. —C. S. Giscombe$16.00 -
QuickviewCUNTIONARY/ Repent at Your Leisure (or The Folklore of Hell) by Benjamin L. Perez
PoetryFrom its title onward, Ben Perez’s fast, fresh fore(word)play aims to say “what oft was thought but ne’er so [politically uncorrectly] expressed.” This book is bound to ruffle some feathers—not for the faint of heart, denizens of “official verse culture” are hereby advised to enter at your own risk. — Stephen Ratcliffe$16.00 -
QuickviewDangerous Things to Please a Girl by Travis Cebula
PoetryA man wanders through Paris. A man wanders through Eliot. Eliot wanders through Paris. Paris wanders through the man. And, not surprisingly, it all comes out as a love letter. Though addressed to a missing person, these poems have no absence about them at all. Instead, built of the fine detail of daily life, they exude a vivid presence that coalesces into a richly nuanced sense of place, of place-as-lived. And it’s a good life. And an utterly delightful book. —Cole Swensen$16.00 -
QuickviewDATA by Seth Abramson
Poetry, SuperstarsBROWN-EYED POLISH 5’8.602” MASSHOLE FLATFOOTED HAIRY SKIN-TAGGED RUSSIAN 227 POUNDS BADGER FAN DARTMOUTH ’98 BROWN-HAIRED NEAR-SIGHTED JEWISH DANIEL BOOK REVIEWER AGNOSTIC LITHUANIAN ATTORNEY DEMOCRAT GAG REFLEX BEARDED CUP-EARRED COWLICK BALDING FACIAL DEFORMITY PALE 5.6” LONG BARITONE POET BULB-NOSED CIRCUMCISED SLOPE-SHOULDERED IOWA WRITERS WORKSHOP ’09$16.00
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