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QuickviewLilith Walks by Susan M. Schultz
New Releases, PoetryThis humane book, interconnected with her dogged, personable companion, Lilith, investigates life’s multifaceted and poignant zones. —Rachel Blau DuPlessis$22.00 -
QuickviewLimitless Tiny Boat by Ruth Danon
PoetryBy investigating the minutiae of life—the stuff that anchors us, a stone and its echo, paradoxes constructed by language—Ruth Danon investigates nothing short of Thanatos and Eros. The journey of the Limitless Tiny Boat is fierce and fearless. Watch out! These poems expand and contract—breathe—as they are read. A substantial achievement. —Martine Bellen$16.00 -
Quickviewlithic cornea (Volume V, The Grammaton Series) by Irene Koronas
New Releases, PoetryIrene Koronas’ Grammaton Series is an antithetical subphylum launching its egg, planula larva, polyp and tryst autoaffects. —Thetica Zorg$18.00 -
QuickviewLittle Cliffs by Paul Naylor
New Releases, Poetry“Little Cliffs is a philosophical adventure story. Both characters (Kai and Chishō) and narrator struggle to transcend binaries while wandering the brushy canyonland of eastern San Diego and studying “The Uncertainty Sutra,” The Rule-Governed Sutra, “The Sutra That Shouldn’t Be Written,” etc. Narration enacts choice. Here choices are made, unmade, and remade in a prose poem as serious and light as a sutra.” —Rae Armantrout$16.00 -
QuickviewLittle: Novels by Emily Anderson
Fiction, PoetryCome for the Michael Landon Flip Book; stay for the richly rewoven story that excavates hidden moments in Little House on the Prairie and pays playful homage to fan favorites like prairie bitch Nellie Oleson. Little is a new classic, skillfully foraging Laura Ingalls Wilder's much-loved series to create an (ir)reverent rereading that pioneers the new frontier of Little House on the Prairie in the 21st-century. —Alison Fraser$25.00 -
QuickviewLost Poet, Four Plays By Jesse Glass
DramaIn this selection of plays, Jesse Glass‘ imagination rages, leaps and staggers from the Challenger disaster of 1986 to the hallucinated lucubrations of Thomas Holley Chivers (friend and rival of Edgar Allan Poe), and manages to cover the arrival of a cosmic, sexual vermiform lemure of the Kabbalistic Bohu-Tohu in a reportorial manner worthy of Philip Glass on N.P.R., while ringing the changes on a young man’s sexual angst in the face of the ambiguities of the Summerland.$20.00 -
QuickviewLove at the End by Wade Stevenson
New Releases, PoetryIn the formal immediacy of these new poems, Wade Stevenson practices elegy in the imperative mode, in the faithful idioms of amazement. And so it happens that he is vividly able to address evidence and events of loss in their proper bodies, in a tender, mutual anguish. Along the way, he discovers wild decorums of love in the embrace of annihilation. These poems are a consolation beyond consolation, an unprecedented heaven on earth. —Donald Revell$16.00 -
QuickviewMadstones by Corey Mesler
Poetry“These poems-- at times dark and troubling, at other times passionate and openhearted--are the work of a very talented poet. Madstones is a book worthy of a smart and attentive audience.” —Ron Rash$16.00 -
QuickviewMainstream by Michael Magee
PoetryRight from the start, Magee’s work bristles with the spirit of improvisation. Everything about it pops: classic poetry chops, a serious sense of humor, unabashed rawness. Mainstream is thrilling because it can turn in any direction at any time, moving effortlessly from wacked units of thought turning inside out to tender moments of highly focused nonsense and song that get, paradoxically, straight to the point. --Drew Gardner$16.00 -
QuickviewMaps for Jackie by Jason Labbe
PoetryJason Labbe’s wonderfully moving and inventive collection Maps for Jackie is an open journey into desire and its fathomlessness. Though the poems dislocate between something and nothing, it’s a loving ride where “waking finds / morning the inmost warp / in space time.” The book is filled with impeccable craft. It’s a terrific work and worth the trip. I’m on board. —PETER GIZZI$16.00 -
QuickviewMarine Layer by Kit Robinson
Poetry, SuperstarsKit Robinson convects his frontal systems through Marine Layer, happy to be enveloped in its fog while somehow always letting its poems breathe. Information sizzles in these data dispatches from the twenty-first century: poetry as a news feed that knows just enough to trust what happens next, lifting the fog—for us all—on the movable things of song. —Miles Champion$16.00 -
QuickviewMasks by Victor Coleman
PoetryVictor Coleman has played with and explored the subtleties of Oulipian procedures for many years, bringing his own imagination and impeccable ear to the revivifying possibilities arrangement offers poetry in lieu of the predictable outpourings of “identity” in the Commercial Poetry Product. With Masks he has reached a point that leaves you breathless in the face of mastery. —Michael Boughn$16.00 -
QuickviewMeet Me at the Happy Bar by Steve Langan
PoetryI'm consistently jealous of Steve Langan's small-a absurdist accuracy, not to mention his unfailing ability to dredge gorgeous song from the hum of the normal. Meet Me at the Happy Bar is sharp, sad, sassy, and frighteningly alive. —Graham Foust$16.00 -
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QuickviewMetamerican by Seth Abramson
Poetry, SuperstarsAmerica has been awaiting the arrival of a poet like this for a generation. —Barn Owl Review$16.00 -
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 -
QuickviewMingling Among by Paul Naylor
New Releases, PoetryPaul Naylor’s Mingling Among is a beautifully sustained, thought-provoking, and companionable prose poem in five interrelated sections. Taking the paragraph as his primary unit of composition, scenes are rendered in ever-changing frames of time, scale, and location, in a measured if kaleidoscopic inquiry into the possibility of overcoming our obsession with binary constructions and the domination of nature. —Ted Pearson$18.00 -
QuickviewMiscellaneous Debris by Nicolas Mansito III
PoetrySurfing the emotional sea, this latest collection from Nick Mansito tosses the soul from crest to deep. Brilliant! Exciting! A beautiful look into the roller coaster soul of the poet. A perfect blend of heart and spleen, this is Mansito at his best. If this is ""debris,"" then it's time for poetry lovers everywhere to go dumpster-diving! ~ G. R. Maddison$16.00 -
QuickviewMOCK TROUGH RASPING CROW by Billy Cancel
PoetryReading MOCK TROUGH RASPING CROW I was captivated in much the same way as when I watched billy cancel perform, though the masks & at times flamboyant costumes were missing I was caught up in the language, dark humor, magic & surreal screwball imagery. This is 1 of those rare instances where performance poetry transfer perfectly from page to stage & vice-versa so “don’t let your attention wander” as cancel puts it, MTRC is about “everything at once / or something all the time.” Grab it, crack it open & try, if you dare, to figure it out. —Steve Dalachinsky$16.00 -
QuickviewMolloy the Flip Side by Chris Tysh
PoetryMolloy: The Flip Side transcreates the first half of Beckett's 1951 French novel, narrated by its eponymous anti-hero who is slowly going nowhere. The hobo lyrics of Tysh's book-length poem open up the unendurable abyss of being, yet zing with vernacular and zany humor: ""Gotta check out soon/ Be done with dying,"" Molloy says, but there's a few things he must do first. And so begins the uncanny journey in this poetic B-side of Beckett's masterpiece.$16.00 -
QuickviewMoon Talk by Wade Stevenson
PoetryWilliam Carlos Williams wrote it is always proper to talk about the moon. Rite about the moon: “Moon Talk” by Wade Stevenson, a hypnotic tide rocks within the waves of this book, the power of the tide, forces push and pull throughout “Moon Talk”, the talk that rocks and swaddles the ear with heart. —Michael Basinski$16.00 -
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
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