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QuickviewCaptain Poetry’s Sucker Punch: A Guide to the Homeric Punkhole, 1980–2012 by Kenneth Warren
Critical ThinkingCalled by Andrei Codrescu, “one of the few and great readers of American poetry,” Warren presents in this collection of more than one hundred essays an interactive history of poetic aspirations and punk protrusions. With a mytho-poetic, archetypal way of reading community, music, and poetry, Warren is a provocative exegete of humanity's typological inheritance.$20.00 -
QuickviewChanging Tense: Thirty memento mori by Bruce Jackson
Critical Thinking, New ReleasesBruce Jackson has written thirty memorial essays about his many friends, ranging from famous philosophers like Michel Foucault, to stray dogs like Randolph Scott, with a host of poets in between.$24.00 -
QuickviewEphemera 1995-2022: On people, politics, art, justice, torture, and war by Bruce Jackson
Critical Thinking, New Releases, SuperstarsBruce Jackson’s Ephemera finishes his recent triplicate of essay collections. This one, which starts with an almost breezy account of his own near heart-attack, feels as undeniable as his Places and Changing Tense.—Benj DeMott$22.00 -
QuickviewHow Proust Ruined My Life and Other Essays by Gloria Frym
Critical ThinkingIn this wonderful assemblage of essays, Gloria Frym liberates the act of reading from the confines of the page. She leads us into the open air where the personal and the public intersect and create a new avenue of possibilities: the book in the hand, the world outside your window. Especially memorable are the probing essays on Jean Toomer and Lorine Niedecker, and her homage to David Meltzer. How Proust Ruined My Life is a timeless book and deserves a wide audience. --Lewis Warsh$22.00 -
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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QuickviewMemeWars by Aldon Lynn Nielsen With E. Ethelbert Miller
Critical Thinking, New Releases, Poetry$22.00As you begin Memewars, think of Ethelbert Miller’s leading questions as melodies, recognizable tunes, and Nielsen’s responses as harmolodic extensions, waxing nostalgic, and just as moving, just as important, playing all the changes on a prolific career and life in music and writing. —Tyrone Williams
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QuickviewMind Over Matter by Gloria Frym
Critical Thinking, SuperstarsHow does the present imprint itself on language, on poetry? Gloria Frym's Mind Over Matter shows us that: the outlines of the endless wars, the credit default swaps. But it also shows poetry resisting this. "No poem/would stand for such a line." Frym writes. "A poem is not a fool." This book makes me want to cheer. —Rae Armantrout$16.00 -
QuickviewOops! Environmental Poetics by James Sherry
Critical ThinkingCan we find models for environmental writing in "language" poetry? What do poetry and risk management have in common? Can hierarchy be inclusive? Why are cross-disciplinary thinking and formal innovation core, non-mutually exclusive tasks for environmental writing today? Sherry's thoughtful, resourceful, playful poetics, as methodical as they are experimental, will challenge you to rethink many of your assumptions about writing, the environment, poetry. This is a substantial, and key, addition to the conversation. –Jonathan Skinner, editor ecopoetic$18.00 -
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QuickviewSauvage: Essays on Anglophone Poetry by Richard Owens
Critical ThinkingBroad in scale and scope, this volume attends to developments on the terrain of contemporary Anglophone poetry deeply articulated with issues of balance, justice, measure, and distance as these variously cohere, come apart and recombine across the unfolding present. Decentered and transatlantic in orientation, the essays aggregated in this volume emerge from a variety of social contexts, including the popular and the scholarly, print and digital forums, the cosmopolitan and the local, the center and the margin.$18.00 -
QuickviewSuch Conjunctions: Robert Duncan, Jess, and Alberto de Lacerda
Critical Thinking, SuperstarsAfter meeting in November 1969 at the International Festival of Poetry in Austin, Texas, the Portuguese poet Alberto de Lacerda (1928-2007) developed a trans-Atlantic friendship with the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan (1919-1988) and his partner, the artist Jess (1923-2004). This book celebrates that friendship by bringing together from the Duncan and de Lacerda archives reproductions and transcriptions of all their extant correspondence in addition to the many inscribed publications, books, magazines, photographs, poems, drawings, and artwork that they shared with each other.$28.00 -
QuickviewUnderstanding Moonseed by Mary Pacifico Curtis
New ReleasesFrom love and glamorous success in the early days of Silicon Valley, to saying goodbye to family she never knew in small town Minnesota, these pages take us along on a highly traveled life that can't escape loss. —Rachel Howard$16.00
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