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QuickviewUncomfortable Clowns ms #77 by James Hart III
PoetryThese poems by James Hart, III careen in the mind as they do down the page with an eagerness, to apprehend every given vicissitude of moment that comes their way. The tensions one finds, throughout the sequence, reflect the ever-fraught interface of inward and out, self and other, word and world. — Bill Berkson$16.00 -
QuickviewUnder the Impression by James Berger
PoetryUnder the Impression transverses the spongy dents in the surfaces of language and memory. Anti-lyrical and insistently lyrical, frank, interrogative, and punctuated with humor, Berger’s poems articulate brilliantly an inventive scepticism of the real world’s edges and fictions. —Orchid Tierne$16.00 -
QuickviewUnder the Sky They Lit Cities by Travis Cebula
Poetry$16.00Herein lies the poet's confidence in forgotten "tones revealed in full light." Cebula's poetry, like the city itself is resilient, iridescent, and every time a little different. —Elizabeth Robinson,
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QuickviewUNRULY by Elysia Lucinda Smith
PoetryUNRULY is a book of rude girl poems describing threesomes, freewheeling, Joan of Arc, naked mole rats, and other R rated things. It is also a book about overcoming an upbringing in the Bible Belt. All this converges in a spilling, like when you vomit into your purse in an Uber except in this book you're sober enough to be mad.$16.00 -
QuickviewUnusual Woods by Gene Tanta
Poetry"Gene Tanta's Unusual Woods is deceptively simple and candidly devious. Reading it is like looking in a funhouse mirror for the first time." —Mike Topp$16.00 -
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QuickviewVEL by Alan Sondheim
PoetryAlan Sondheim is a force of nature: a Category 5 mindstorm blowing in from all points of the compass at once. Coded and plain-speaking, philosophical and emotional, artistic and banal: to read Sondheim is to fall through a wormhole into a full world. And why shouldn't a work of art be a world’ His art is writing as a performance act even more direct than Allen Ginsberg speaking into his tape recorder. — Jim Rosenberg$16.00 -
QuickviewVersus by Stacia M. Fleegal
PoetryStacia Fleegal just can’t stop creating serious noise in her poems. She’s a writer who isn’t afraid to make words crackle and snap, especially about how social class works in America, starting at the bottom and going up. So, fair to say, you should expect something other than the tame lyric in this collection. —Eloise Klein Heal$16.00 -
QuickviewVertigo Diary by Larry Sawyer
PoetryLarry’s poetry gives me the best kind of vertigo: the kind where you’re afraid of falling, but when you do you fall into a soft, meaty, sensual, smart ravine that shakes you pretty good, but instead of killing you it turns you into a Thinking Cocktail. What a scary and fine artist Mr. Sawyer is! —Andrei Codrescu$16.00 -
QuickviewVexed by Jessica Grim
PoetryGrim's style masterly evokes the simplicities of poetry in the "New American" vein, with its fragments of candid observation just shimmering on the surface of the poem, but she allies it with a "post-Language" sensibility that balks before the prospect of a too-fluid Romanticism, thus spicing sensual reverie with documentary relevance. —Brian Kim Stefans$16.00 -
QuickviewVia Crucis by Peter Siedlecki, art by Catherine Burchfield Parker
New Releases, PoetrySiedlecki’s poetry resonates the surfaces and experiences of Burchfield Parker paintings. The Way of the Cross is understood as spaces of time, moments of loss, forgotten destructive comforts, and nightmare memories. ... This is a tough, beautiful, provoking book of poems. —Geoffrey Gatza$20.00 -
QuickviewVirtual Worlds Virtual People by Kay Porter Winfield
PoetryPoetry and video games don’t often occupy the same space at the same time, but Kay Porter Winfield’s Virtual Worlds Virtual People proves once and for all that they can (and maybe they should). These poems rocket with character-driven action and conflict: electrical shocks, diabolical plots, flashing swords, and cliffhangers galore. —Matt Hart$16.00 -
QuickviewVOLUME ONE (Selected Anonymous Marginalia) by Liam Agrani
PoetryVOLUME ONE represents a decade of research into found language by the poet/editor Liam Agrani. The work is composed solely of direct transcriptions of marginalia from libraries, used bookstores, and various other places. Removed from the context of the books they came from, these works become intimate abstract accidental poems, occupying the space where private literary "criticism" and found poetry meet.$16.00 -
QuickviewVow by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryIn Kristina Marie Darling’s Vow, both text and subtext paint the fraught institution of marriage, particularly the subjectivities of the bride’s several selves. Written in candle, tale, and glass, the book “reveals, harbors, conceals” in an exciting new collection. —Carmen Gimenez Smith$16.00 -
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QuickviewWaste by Emily Toder
PoetryThrough these honest, prismatic poems, Emily Toder explores what is cast off, what is extra, and what we deem unsalvageable. This book reveals that our garbage can be a lesson in our humanity and, sometimes, that lessons in our humanity are garbage. Either way, both ways, I love this revelatory book. —Sommer Browning$16.00 -
QuickviewWave Particle Duality by Dana Curtis
PoetryIn Wave Particle Duality, Dana Curtis takes us into her nocturnal sphere, the film noir where fission splits the soul, and dark energy is all we have to go on. These are poems full of twisted desire and visionary clarity, pure need and thin hope. Throughout her language is as sharp as a pinprick. She cites Hogarth, which is apt, because Dana Curtis is a moralist, with gallows humor and a sense of the perverse. "Will you be my infidel," she asks? Oh, yes, we think. Just keep on talking. —David Lazar$16.00 -
QuickviewWhat A Bicycle Can Carry by Laura Madeline Wiseman
PoetryIn a moment when our nation feels divided and strange, Wiseman’s authoritative, sensitive guide provides a bicycle-eye view of a beautiful, complicated country. —Nancy Reddy$16.00 -
QuickviewWhat She Knows by Marcia Roberts
PoetryBy assembling these fragments into a whole, the poet Marcia Roberts has saved telling moments from a lifetime's experience; and having done so with care, now generously shares them. —Tom Clark$16.00 -
QuickviewWhatever Speaks on Behalf of Hashish by Anis Shivani
Poetry, Superstars“Both arresting and inventive, Anis Shivani’s new poems reveal a rich sense of wonder at this complex thing we call humanity. Smart, unflinching, and relevant—this book demands rereading.” — Ryan G. Van Cleave$16.00 -
QuickviewWhen I Said Goodbye By Didi Menendez
Poetry"Sexy, involved, intense, hilarious, hip, weird, intelligent, witchy wild in a way one thinks of female owls, maybe with embers of fire under their wings, such wide eyesight: This Is A Damn Good Book!" —ron androla$16.00 -
QuickviewWhere a road had been by Matthew Shears
Poetry$16.00Writing in the dark, in the desert of the real, Matt Shears explores profound and necessary possibilities. Shears moves with extraordinary grace through critique and meditation. Few poets these days are writing poetry this brave. This is a wonderful book. This is a brilliant poet. —Joseph Lease
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QuickviewWindow On The City by Michael Ruby
Poetry“Unreal City,” intones Mr. Eliot in his “The Waste Land,” bracketed by “One must be so careful these days” and “Under the brown fog of a winter dawn…. ” Ruby writes “velocity,” athwart “toodle to tabasco” and “orange sunshine.” What’s cold and taut in Eliot—strained—is hot and loose in Window on the City. —Sam Truitt$16.00 -
Quickviewwithin sky by Marcia Arrieta
New Releases, PoetryThere is a great sense of serenity and peace in Marcia Arrieta’s poems, although we can feel, sense, and absorb the rough and disquieting textures of the world she offers. —Andrea Moorhead$18.00
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