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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 -
QuickviewMy Secret Wars of 1984 by Dennis Etzel, Jr.
PoetryThe world of 1984 has a deft tenacity in the hands of Dennis Etzel, Jr. This book blends the personal to the greater political as only the best possible memoir can do. We are all in this world together and the strangest things occur, sometimes when other strange things occur, and I thank Mr. Etzel for his brilliant, sharp reminder. —CAConrad$16.00 -
Quickviewmylar by Eric Wertheimer
Poetry"Where we live, we live in cars,” Eric Wertheimer writes in Mylar, of an eerily postmodern city where “Dust storm at the mirror of stars.” Wertheimer locates us in an at-times gorgeously realized lyric moment—a perfectly rhymed couplet, for instance, or the sly grammatique of this deftly languaged poetry. The visionary range of Wertheimer’s poetic dictions across centuries is riveting, and the swerve to tender, embodied attentiveness and vulnerability so moving. Mylar is miracle. —Cynthia Hogue$16.00 -
QuickviewN7ostradamus by Travis Macdonald
PoetryThis is a book written from a spirited and volatile unconscious. Read it when it's raining, or at night, or with your eyes completely closed. —Bhanu Kapil$16.00 -
QuickviewNaming God by Jennifer J. Thompson
Mobilis in MobiliThis book is part of our moblis in mobli series, a free ebook with a printed books that is for sale from us as well as Amazon.com.$15.00 -
QuickviewNectar of Story by Tim J. Myers
PoetryNectar of Story considers wildly various, ever intriguing subjects with sympathy, passion, and self-effacing wisdom. And his prose introductions to the poems are often as fine as the vignettes in Hemingway's In Our Time. A rich and wonderful collection. —Ron Hansen,$16.00 -
QuickviewNew City by Scott Abels
PoetryRoll into Scott Abels’s gloriously fracked New City, where the vibe is fun, loving, creating, jobs, for kids, “looping our rope over / a natural crotch,” growing up, in Nebraska, looking like clip art, don’t worry pee is sterile, we’re singing for whose supper?, this city’s, got us, altogether now—if you're a red-blooded a merry can of worms, you need to read this. —Catherine Wagner$16.00 -
QuickviewNightshades by Michael Gessner
New Releases, PoetryNightshades, Michael Gessner’s new and presciently-titled collection of poems, manages to captivate the reader on its opening pages, beginning with a deadpan, impossibly earnest manifesto titled “Expectations”—followed immediately by a pair of anaphoric poems that seem almost gleeful in their savvy irreverence. All of these offer the reader a highly promising springboard into a unique poetic adventure. —Marilyn L. Taylor$16.00 -
QuickviewNine Blue Moments for Robin by Michael Boughn
PoetryHow unafraid these thinking loving poems are as they explore memory’s grief and delight, hommages for Robin Blaser – not about, but to a beloved friend and mentor. Boughn’s interlinked meditations conjure something of Blaser himself that anyone who knew him will recognise, and over which anyone who did not will wonder – celebration and grief, mind and body, urgency and laughter, all working together. Nine blue moments indeed, that resonate more fully than memory and may outlast it: “Enough depth,” the poet says, “to contain a sky.” The ache of that. —Peter Quartermain$16.00 -
QuickviewNine by Anne Tardos
Poetry, SuperstarsAnne Tardos, whose poetry & performances have enlightened us for several decades now, emerges in Nines as an innovator of new forms as a vehicle for work that incorporates, like all great poetry, the fullest range of thoughts & experiences & makes them stick in mind & memory. I am struck, as rarely happens, by this combination of form & content, each a powerful extension of the other. —Jerome Rothenberg$16.00 -
QuickviewNIV: 39 & 27 by Nicholas Hayes
PoetryRevising rule and ritual of the holy books, the speaker of these re-tellings drips distorted light on some of the ancient obsessions to make them appear strange in their familiarity and familiar in their strangeness. With a mathematical precision and the patience of an engineer, Nicholas Alexander Hayes' first book offers holy enemies, licked-up Lords and unclean priests, harlot judges, names that burn, locusts who attack lions, and borders that force peace. — Daniel Borzutzky$16.00 -
QuickviewNo Dimes for the Dancing Gypsies by Linda King
Poetry, SuperstarsIn No Dimes for the Dancing Gypsies, Linda King masterfully orchestrates an intriguing & mesmerizing work of identity and survival. These are poems of inquiry, poems of resurrection, where “water has a memory” and language reveals “other dichotomies,” where the past and present merge, and language beautifully triumphs. —Marcia Arrieta$16.00 -
QuickviewNoah’s Ark by Sam Magavern, Art by Monica Angle
PoetrySam Magavern opens quick portals in ""Noah's Ark"" for morning visions and wisdoms: reports and chants from dark and funny parts of the mind. Here are sudden pictures of durable wonder. Read quickly and all at once. And breathe in Monica Angle's long now, a broadly painted calligraphy that stitches the poems into the book and keeps it afloat, a watercolor time and life line that locates the enduring horizon. —Anthony Bannon$25.00 -
QuickviewNomads with Samsonite by Timothy Bradford
PoetryTimothy Bradford gnaws on the big questions: should I run with my pack, or should I go it alone? Where to find enlightenment? What is a dead animal? What is the spirit’s realm? The mind falls into its quandaries, and the body, drunk with it, tags along. These poems, roving across continents, restlessly seek to locate consciousness in the world, a universe which “opens like a tulip / or closes like a fist,” where the poet is not afraid to admit: “I forget / which.” —Eleni Sikeliano$16.00 -
QuickviewNon Sequitur Syndrome by Goro Takano
PoetryIn this book, the desire for clarity is pitted against the lust for ambiguity, and the desire to be saved collides with the urge to self-destruct. Also, in this book, what I am (as male, father, widower, heterosexual, poet, Japanese native living in Japan, and so on) coexists with what I am not. —Goro Takano$16.00 -
QuickviewNotes on a Past Life by David Trinidad
Poetry, SuperstarsIn Notes on a Past Life, David Trinidad exorcises the ghosts of New York with a compulsively readable, wrenching memoir in verse. His “Goodbye to All That” offers a critique of ambition, an ode to community, and a sip of the poison that poetry is, in the end, the antidote to. —Eula Biss$16.00
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