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QuickviewRunes by Tracy Thomas
PoetryTracy Thomas' poetry takes us to places we've never been even as we feel we've been there before. Sometimes mystical, sometimes comical, sometimes frightening and always overwhelming. His juxtapositions are dizzying, he creates language you can dance to. —Jack Evans$16.00 -
QuickviewRunoff by Clay Matthews
PoetryIt’s a major book from a writer who’s already shown himself to be one of our best and most unconventional narrative-lyric poets. Your head will spin, your eyes will bulge, you’ll think you could’ve done it, but you didn’t (and you couldn’t)! Put on your goggles and armor; you’re in for a crushing, bewildering, and beautiful ride. — Matt Hart$16.00 -
QuickviewSaccade Patterns by Deborah Meadows
PoetrySaccade Patterns explores vision, the erotic gaze, and social discernment. The book opens with a shuffled text that dismantles melodrama by inscribing primate capacity for abstract thought. There’s even a list of possible names for a pet cricket that follows a mathematic iteration. The poems seem to ask how an ekphrastic poem based on the story of Tristan und Isolde illumines the oldest gaze of love and eros. “Highways out to desert proving grounds” lead to technologically-enhanced vision, failures in our “dynastic speed-up.”$16.00 -
QuickviewSailing This Nameless Ship by Justin Evans
PoetrySoundly lyrical yet subtly narrative, these poems find a grounded energy in a bittersweet longing for home that is belied by a thrilling apprehension of what’s to come. — Jeff Newberry$16.00 -
QuickviewSALVAGE by Michael Basinski
PoetrySO, he tried and it was endless in his head labyrinth and he tried and tried: When asked about SALVAGE Basinski pondered and battled with his selves. He didn’t know. He was afraid. His impulses were everywhere. The veil of art, which would unveil nothing! The silly, try too hard, musings of an aging being! Alien communication, confrontation, and arrogance and some rampant need and want.$16.00 -
QuickviewSamsara Congeries by mIEKAL aND
PoetryImpossible to characterize in a few sweeping phrases, Samsara Congeries, an epic in many pieces, channels land-ancestors, land-heirs, langue-ancestors, langue-heirs, all the detritus of material and linguistic (t)ex(t)(ins)istence that insists on itself in cycles of embodied living. —Maria Damon$22.00 -
QuickviewSay It Into My Mouth by H. L. Hix
New Releases, PoetryWhat makes H. L. Hix’s book unique is that its set of very personal, indeed autobiographical poems turn out, paradoxically enough, to be composed almost entirely of quoted text. How does a poet perform this feat? ... Every aphorism or question provokes a further question or response, often familiar on its own, but transformed by its context. The resulting lyric conceptualism or conceptualist lyric — take your pick! — is as thought-provoking as it original and charming. — Marjorie Perloff$18.00 -
QuickviewScorched Altar: Selected Poems & Stories 2007-2014 by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryIt is in the very restlessness of her metaphors that Kristina Darling documents a tangible faith. Such restlessness is trustworthy and always, throughout Scorched Altar, both vital and in plain view. Here are truthful experiments. Here is a new tradition, alive in bright air. —Donald Revell$18.00 -
QuickviewSecondary Sound by justin sirois
PoetrySometimes a ringtone is just a ringtone, but not very often. Mostly they say things like "hope you got away from yourself safe," or "reformat a thief into a reverted serf," or "felt more real watching it onscreen." This is not a technological book, it's about people, so it's techno-illogical-- it's about hiding & thieving & occasionally, love. sirois has written here a stunning documentary attempt at re-lyricizing our stupid alienations. He succeeds, we don't. Ahoy there Group Gropers, press send. — Rod Smith$16.00 -
QuickviewSecret’s Exhibition and Other Introventions by Vernon Frazer
New Releases, PoetryVernon Frazer's Secret's Exhibition and Other Introventions is a delightful book, showing & showcasing once again, from the first poem on — "to repeal a tense present / riding the grammar surge" — the poet's ability to align words with other, often disparate, words, & then shape the resultant phrases into assemblages of insight & beauty. —Mark Young$16.00 -
QuickviewSensational Spectacular by Nate Pritts
PoetryAs its exuberant title suggests, Sensational Spectacular is a book of double energies, hurling out voluble, self-sparking poems on one side while clocking the reader upside the head with the essential loneliness of the lyric (and the universe) on the other. —Joyelle McSweeney$16.00 -
QuickviewSHE, A BLUEPRINT by Michelle Naka Pierce and Sue Hammond West
Poetry$25.00It is an ekphrasis of the female form, one which writes a woman into being where the woman cannot be. It is a reverse-ekphrasis of the formal female, one which images what might be a woman were woman not imagined. Pierce and Hammond West’s She, a Blueprint underscores that every grid is someone’s narrative, and there is only necessity in the thrust of us. —Vanessa Place
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