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QuickviewThe Epic of Hell Freeze by Richard K. Ostrander
PoetryThe poems in Richard K. Ostrander's The Epic of Hell Freeze (What Stays the News) shift from allusion (Andromeda, Abraham, Sisyphus) to illusion: ""He walks through walls/ On the other side of silver."" Ostrander's attention to ""language's legerdemain"" ties seemingly unrelated poems to each other like knotted scarves pulled from a magician's sleeve, using alliteration—""And a single sentence,/ Tautness of telephone lines""—as well as slant rhyme—""Flies, happy in their bottles/ Freer than fish/ that fly/ Melody or malady/ I don't know which""—and clichés twisted into new configurations—""There's a sty in the sky,/ Here's a shoulder to fry on."" —Beth Copeland$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Equation That Explains Everything by Andrew Cox
PoetryPoets usually either rhapsodize the world or explain it. In The Equation that Explains Everything, Andy Cox shows us that he is an explainer, but he explains through a wondrous broken logic where blind men drive under the influence of dogs, rubber snakes entice the world with plastic apples, and two plus two equals five but all the tiny sighs in the hours before quitting time add up to nothing. —Richard Newman$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Exploding Nothingness of Never Define by Anne Tardos
Poetry, SuperstarsAnne Tardos, whose poetry & performances have delighted us for several decades now, emerges in her new book as the innovator of a work that incorporates, like the best of our poetry, a full range of thoughts & experiences & makes them stick in mind & memory. —Jerome Rothenberg$22.00 -
QuickviewThe History of My World Tonight by Daniel Nester
PoetryIn The History of My World Tonight, Daniel Nester re-envisions The Beach Boys, The Brady Bunch, and the Bible. He takes on the Munchkins, Montale, Monet, and masturbation. But that’s just the beginning. In these intimate confessional and experimental poems, Nester delivers a complex psyche along with deadpan social commentary. This is an engagingly funny and tender book. —Denise Duhamel$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Homesick Mortician by Peter Mladinic
New Releases, PoetryMladinic gives us a world where “a man with a wooden leg/ and a boy in a white shirt/ talk weather/ and look like an argument.” The strange and the mundane combine into sharp mystery. This is exquisite poetry and worthy of your time. —Jeff Weddle$18.00 -
QuickviewThe Hunger in Our Eyes by Jared Demick
PoetryJared Demick's The Hunger in Our Eyes is a little bit country and a whole lot of cross-country(ies). The shape-shifting Americana here scores a playfully re-visionist choreography that brings into focus what imperial eyes typically miss: the accidents of landscape, the histories of food, the body's crossings. —Urayoán Noel$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Ida Pingala by Debrah Morkun
PoetryDebrah Morkun's words compose dynamic fields. Her efforts push poetry onto the page to energize language by reaching toward its limits. Between the ""janus-lipped morning"" and ""miserable neighborhoods"" a resistance forms according to what can be said and what actually gets said. Morkun confronts opposing forms and possibilities (like the ida and pingala of the title). Here poetry is electrified by the tensions of sound and meaning. ~ Hoa Nguyen$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Impossible Picnic by Mark Tursi
PoetryMark Tursi’s Impossible Picnic sets up camp not on grassy Romantic heights but on the astroturf of our mental backyards and interiors. In its wild juxtapositions and deadpan humor, one hears unsettling echoes emanating from the “vapory camaraderie” of modernism. Here “the world is all this, plus the world,” as the title propels us toward a super-abundance that only initially seems “impossible.” —Elizabeth Willis$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Jointure by Clayton Eshleman
Poetry, Superstars“What does it mean to see with the eyes of the soul?” In The Jointure, Clayton Eshleman offers an answer to this question in language of visionary symbolic consciousness. Intimate and expansive, psychological and anthropological data germinates this fecundating exploration and extrapolation of inner wilderness and the essence of imagination. In The Jointure, “memory is fracture” – the depths of horror enshroud the horror of depths – but imagination is revealed as the “keelson of paradise.” —Stuart Kendall$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Last Place I Lived by K. Alma Peterson
PoetryOne of the early poems in this book concludes: “My wild side would like to know.” If yours would too, read The Last Place I Lived. The collection abounds in wit and verbal play, yet the reward in reading comes from an intelligence lodged deep, directing the lines in sophisticated ways, the “afterimage // glassily repeated in the hawk’s beveled eye.” —Julie Funderburk$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Living Air by Masiela Lusha
PoetryWhen I discovered Masiela Lusha’s impressive list of accomplishments in the cinematic arts, I have to say I was not surprised in the least. Ms. Lusha’s poems skillfully dramatize the most ethereal of philosophical ideas, showing us what’s at stake as we “stalk the truth.” This book will invite you in, then “release you as a learner,” subtly illuminating through its performative poetics what questions we should be asking of the world around us. —Kristina Marie Darling$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Logic of Clouds by Marc Pietrzykowski
PoetryMarc Pietrzykowski lives and writes in Lockport, NY, with his wife and various furry mendicants. He has published elsewhere, has friends and so forth, but he would much rather you read the inside of the book than the back cover.$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Long Way Home by Leonard Gontarek
New Releases, PoetryGontarek's enthusiasm and imagination pour through poem after poem: surprising juxtapositions and fragments from Krishnamurti and other meditative guides and philosophers show a wide range of experiences and objects in a kind of praise song. —Sean Singer$26.00 -
QuickviewThe Lost Atlas of Desire by Jeremy Downes
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 -
QuickviewThe Lost Positive by Elizabeth Strauss Friedman
New Releases, PoetryIn The Lost Positive, her stellar second collection of poetry, Elizabeth Strauss Friedman casts the slog of domestic, compulsory heterosexuality into the stars—the result is a new mythology, “a wandering bruise / of glamour,” in which women refuse to negatively refract. —Jenny Molberg$18.00 -
QuickviewTHE MERCURY POEM by Jared Schickling
PoetryWith THE MERCURY POEM, Jared Schickling brings us an oddly reversible apocalypse—the story of individuals grappling with their own bleak place in history. “A tsunami ruining the beach / during an election season,” “the exclusion zone is breeding,” and as an elegy to television, the poet finds normalcy in the unlivable. —Jonathan Penton$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Metaphysician’s Daughter by Dick Ostrander
Poetry"These poems are intriguing , packed with surprising situations, encounters and characters. The poet often captures moments that hit the jackpot such as with "Beauty of the Beast." This is poetry that not only needs to be read more than once, but read out loud and then discussed and pondered." —Sara Claytor$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Metempsychosis of Salvador Dracu by Daniel Y. Harris (Volume VI of The Posthuman Series)
New Releases, PoetryDaniel Y. Harris’ The Posthuman Series is an amazing tour de force! —Marjorie Perloff$22.00 -
QuickviewThe Misprision of Agon Hack (Volume IV: The Posthuman Series) by Daniel Y. Harris
New Releases, PoetryDaniel Y. Harris’ Posthuman Series is an amazing tour de force! —Marjorie Perloff$18.00 -
QuickviewThe Moon and Other Inventions: Poems After Joseph Cornell by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryDarling creates a lattice of explicitly feminine apperception around the works of Joseph Cornell. The result is a haunting parascription, of a piece with Cornell's metaphysical idiom while substantially Othering any sustained encounter with his work. —G.C. Waldrep$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Moon Blooms in Occupied Hours by Anis Shivani
PoetryShivani is at the height of his powers as his lens sweeps with cinematic confidence from the grand to the minute and his voice encompasses the roaring horrors of war and the quieter moments of reflection and grace.—Wendy Chin-Tanne$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Mouth Of The Bay by Michael Ruby
PoetryIn poems written on the rocky coast of Frenchman Bay in Maine, Michael Ruby begins with wisdom and ends with delight, reversing Frost’s famous dictum about poetry. The Mouth of the Bay begins with the wisdom of the Eleatic philosophers on the coasts of southern Italy and Sicily—“There is no beginning and there is no end”—and their calls for purification. Ruby writes the words that appear in his mind when he repeats sayings of Pythagoras, Xenophanes, Empedocles and others.$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Olfactions: Poems on Perfume by Anne Gorrick
PoetrySomeone once said that after a Bach sonata, the silence that follows is still Bach. Well, after a poem from Anne Gorrick, the silence that follows is a whiff of patchouli, tar, vanilla, tea and other things... Thank you. Thank you. —Fabrice Penot,$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Paris Poems by Suzanne Burns
Poetrythis is subject matter clichéd a century ago; all of it forced into newness, not by the references of modernity, but by the observance of a well-referenced poetess of now— a potential beginning for this century's cliché. —c.vance,$16.00
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