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QuickviewHuman Scale by Michael Kelleher
PoetryIt would be difficult for me to overstate my admiration for Michael Kelleher's new poems. They vibrate to a music rarely heard before, combining passion and intelligence with such mastery that one is left stunned by the pleasure they afford. With few words, an entire world is born. -- Paul Auster$16.00 -
QuickviewHuman-Carrying Flight Technology by Christopher Shipman
PoetryChristopher Shipman’s debut collection of poetry is edgy, quirky, sharply observed, and evocative. With language simultaneously plain and artful, poem after poem draws us into a landscape familiar but odd, a world that pleasures and troubles. Shipman’s is one of the most exciting voices I’ve heard in ages. —Rick Lott$16.00 -
QuickviewHurled Into Gettysburg by Theresa Wyatt
PoetryAt one point, Theresa Wyatt reminds us that “…history picks off the scabs of arrogance.” This work illustrates also that poetry can penetrate the icy data of history and find its feelings. Each poem in this remarkable anthology of responses to this most crucial Civil War battle has a life of its own, a language of its own, a tone of its own. —Peter Siedlecki$16.00 -
QuickviewHybrid Hierophanies by Clayton Eshleman
Poetry, SuperstarsAdrienne Rich has stated: “As a poet and translator, Clayton Eshleman has gone more deeply into his art, its processes and demands, than any modern American poet since Robert Duncan and Muriel Rukeyser.” And Robert Kelly has written: “Nobody is like him in his struggle. At times he makes the wildness of most poetry seem merely effete. I know of no poet who has fed so richly from the thingliness of the world beneath his feet, none who so resists the glamour of beliefs. He is a shaman without a single superstition.”$12.00 -
QuickviewI AM YOU by Anne Tardos
Poetry, Superstars"I Am You reminds us of something we know but often forget: that identity is formed in relation to others. These poems are couched within the contexts of process-based, art-making practice and clear-headed philosophical inquiry. The result is a kind of philosophical investigation into the multiplicity of time." —Kit Robinson, American Book Review$16.00 -
QuickviewI DID THE WEIRD MOTOR DRIVE by Charles Baldwin
PoetryThe author of this book is obviously the unnatural love grand child of William *Sewer* Burroughs & Jim *J.G.* Ballard. Makes for a weird motor. Despite Theory Police*s stem warmings, I mean, stern warnings, I*ll buy a pre-owned text from this guy any day, though I know it to be habit forming. - Pierre Joris$16.00 -
QuickviewI Named the Dragon for You by Nikki Ketteringham
New Releases, Poetry$16.00Ketteringham has composed a striking composition featuring an ingenious plot twist and etched with what it feels like to say, “I like belonging to something not someone,” but stay. —Tiffany Troy,
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QuickviewI Thought I was New Here by Gregory Lawless
PoetryGregory Lawless is a visionary of fallen satelites, making revelations of scrap and stray: exiles, astronauts, scarecrows, a gnome, a daughter who will not speak, a pet gryphon and pet rock that "gets dizzy on the plains." —Dean Young$16.00 -
QuickviewI Want to Take You Everywhere by Cassandra Manzolillo
New Releases, Poetry"Eros, like Lear, must sometimes wander unhoused across a cruel landscape. How wonderful, then, to read the poetry of Cassandra Manzolillo, there to find desire sheltered in its brightest insouciance and in the full flourish of actual yearning. There is a tireless, guileless presence in these poems that I find both admirable and original." —Donald Revell$18.00 -
QuickviewI Went Looking For You by Ruth Lepson
PoetryPure and graceful and deep: it takes much time to come to those three. Here they are. Fragile and objective, the view of the world from here. It is how a person sees when looking. Very clear. —Fanny Howe$16.00 -
QuickviewI, THE WORST OF ALL by Estela Lamat Translated by Michael Leong
PoetryI, the Worst of All is a complex and heterogeneous book that combines Lamat's intense, almost manic lyricism with her prodigious mythopoeic imagination. The result is a challenging and ambitious project that invites multiple readings and rewards extended lingerings within its dense, linguistic thicket…This book quite literally takes your breath away–because of the demanding pace of Lamat's language$16.00 -
QuickviewIDIOGEST by Ed Taylor
PoetryLike gems in their deer parks and their bus scenes, the broadways and jurassics, the Edens and Manhattans, Ed Taylor's Idiogest is a work of poems that do more than just delight; his book is a new bright star, a refreshing awe of intelligence. —Kim Chinquee$16.00 -
QuickviewImported Poems by Diana Adams
PoetryDiana Adams offers up moments of a life dressed in understated, quasi-surreal clothing. She calls upon deep pools of the imagination to render poems that proceed not chronologically or logically, from cause to effect, but rather, by enigmatic and startling images that unwrap the pleasures of discovered connections, as when we look at a surrealist painting, with its congealed dreamscapes. —Jeffrey Levine$16.00 -
QuickviewImposture Notebooks By Lance Phillips
Poetry“Traversed the grass... ” begins Lance Phillips' Imposture Notebook and aptly so. This book enacts traversal (and trans versality) in so many ways, it's difficult to keep count. Add another entry to the heroic, folded tradition of post-autobiography scrolling from Hejinian-Whitman to Howe-Dickinson and back. At once comprising intensely personal concretions, sweeping, almost hierophantic abstractions, and meditations on the places where such ends of the language spectrum must meet, Phillips' Notebook is a welcome record of many names writ in aether.” —Aaron McCollough$16.00 -
QuickviewIn Other Days by Roger Craik
New Releases, Poetry“Every moment of Roger Craik's In Other Days is an event of inviolable music, golden, as the best of music always is, with both finitude and duration. And I use the word “golden” most particularly here, as these poems--whether urban or pastoral, whether fond or furious--impart a radiance to their idiom identical to that burnished radiance we find in the paintings of Samuel Palmer or the enigmas of Elgar. Craik adventures far beyond pathos and nostalgia, into something like a prospect of eternity. I am both thrilled and consoled by this poetry.” —Donald Revell$16.00 -
QuickviewIn Paran by Larissa Shmailo
Poetry“From under the El in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to her window seat on the Harlem Line, Shmailo is right on track with poetry that dances with love, death and desire. The proverbial urban poet, Shmailo masterfully mixes the beauty and the gritty, in New York City.” — Doug Holde$16.00 -
QuickviewIn Perfect Silence at the Stars: Walt Whitman and the Meaning of Poems by Nick Courtright
Critical Thinking, Poetry$22.00With In Perfect Silence at the Stars, the art of close-reading becomes an experience without limits. This is an exhilarating book. ~ Donald Revell
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QuickviewIn the Country of the Peregrine by Wade Stevenson
New Releases, PoetryIt is wonderful to discover in these poems a companionship that is also in itself a kind of odyssey, replete with enchantments. This is a most welcoming book. —Donald Revell$18.00 -
Quickviewincidental music by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa
Poetryincidental music is attentive to the deep formal traditions of poetry in the western tradition: the sonnet, the pantoum, the cinquain, the rondeau, the triolet, the ghazal. And yet, as Jane Joritz-Nakagawa well knows, these traditions get their strength in how they intertwine with the contemporary. Incidental music is both innovative and inclusive of all that poetry can do. —JULIANA SPAHR$16.00 -
QuickviewInconsequentia by Dereks Henderson & Pollard
PoetryIn this sequence, the collaboration between word and reader, writer and responder, life and death, Derek and Derek, is an invitation, a dance card in which the dancer and the danced become not a duet but a crowd of possibility—“the shining market of us." —Eleni Sikelianos$16.00 -
QuickviewInside Narratives by Ethan Saul Bull
PoetryThere is a way of seeing expressed in Ethan Bull's poems—complex mimetic waves drifting from modernity, rippling through memory as a person or a state or flora. Proper nouns exploded, rent and mended—sometimes on the very same page. — Joseph Mains$16.00 -
QuickviewInside The Walls of My Own House: The Complete Dark Shadows [of My Childhood] Book 2 by Tony Trigilio
Poetry“The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood) feels meditative, organic, and weighty far beyond what one would anticipate from a poem about a blooper-ridden ’60s TV show” (Rain Taxi).$16.00 -
QuickviewInterstellar Theme Park by Jack Skelley
New Releases, Poetry“Despite my dislike of seeing my own name, you’re really a good writer – never what’s expected.” —Kathy Acker$22.00 -
QuickviewInterstitial by Sean Patrick Hill
PoetryIn Interstitial, Sean Patrick Hill lovingly renders the mundane into a world that is (quite literally) on fire. His poems are taut, perverse, and terrifying. As with all good poems, these leave the page to hound and haunt the reader. — Alan May,$16.00
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