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QuickviewSoldatesque / Soldiering | Poetry by Anne Waldman, Art by Noah Saterstrom
Poetry, Superstars“Here on the home front Anne and Noah’s word-and-image frieze blossoms like an immensely considerate device improvised for those Gentle Reader hands remaining.” — Bill Berkson$20.00 -
Quickviewsome deer left the yard moving day by Andrew K Peterson
Poetry"To: “quincify.” To: “decolonize.” Andy's Peterson's some deer is dedicated to “Naropa,” the university he attended for two years. There, he drew rancid, ebullient comics and amazed us all – his “blood company” – with stand-up, improvised accounts and physical examples of a contemporary hybrid poetics. ... The experiment is to stay alive. – Bhanu Kapil$16.00 -
QuickviewSome Odd Afternoon by Sally Ashton
Poetry“This is about what turns up,” writes Sally Ashton in Some Odd Afternoon . What turns up may be the “dangedy-dang twang” of a banjo, a laptop hiding under a hoop skirt, or a living room that becomes a forest of grandfathers, one “a log, another stone, one a river.” —Nils Peterson,$16.00 -
QuickviewSomething to Exchange by Celia Gilbert
Poetry“I can't see with an angel's sight,” Celia Gilbert writes, but she can see with the clear vision of a poet who knows both love and loss and continues to make—to embrace—that costly exchange. These poems give us the natural world in stunning beauty and history in all its inconsolable grief. — Betsy Sholl$16.00 -
QuickviewSomewhere Over the Pachyderm Rainbow by Jennifer C. Wolfe
Poetry$16.00Once again Jennifer C. Wolfe takes aim at American politics in her newest collection of poetry, from Buffalo’s BlazeVOX books. In them, Wolfe goes beyond the current political climate to explore the role of the media and pundit-ainers who “report” with seemingly unprecedented partisan bias, and do so shamelessly. She is critical, and she doesn’t pretend otherwise. Wolfe seeks out this dynamic, shining the light, by looking both at the actors and issues themselves, and how partisan politics often plays out in the media coverage of issues and current events. —Lynn Alexander -
QuickviewSongBu®st by Stephen Bett
New Releases, PoetryStephen Bett’s new book SongBu®st sounds like a ship-wrecked wit (“We are coast people”) riffing at the end of the world. Here you’ll find snippets of old American pop songs morphed into takes on gun carnage and quotes from tech bros, each separated from the other by an “infrathin delay.” —Rae Armantrout$18.00 -
QuickviewSongs of the Sun Amor by Wade Stevenson
PoetryBe to be Not to become You can’t think joy What you seek or sought The mind can never catch So live lightly Love wildly Go sweetly Love tenderly Die softly Run the race from within Ride the mare of the moon Eat the golden apples of the sun$16.00 -
Quickviewsound of wave in channel, Books I and II by Stephen Ratcliffe
Poetry, SuperstarsIn Stephen Ratcliffe’s sound of wave in channel, constant difference meets constant sameness. The result is a sublime evanescence, where the daily practice of poetry becomes a means of making palpable the immanent transcendence that Dickinson called “Finite infinity.” —Charles Bernstein$50.00 -
Quickviewspecimens by Mark Cunningham
PoetryMy introduction to Mark Cunningham came when a small swarm of [beetles] arrived in my inbox at Otoliths. Delightful things, that I was instantly enamored of. Something of a paradox, though. So detailed they could only have been examined at length whilst pinned to a plush velvet tray; & yet so full of life. —Mark Young$16.00 -
QuickviewSpleen Elegy by Jason Labbe
PoetryLet’s twin and twine together two primary aspects of how America can see herself—the good atoms of Whitman’s leaves of grass, and the engines humming their freedom on the highways that cut across those 19th century fields. Now, Jason Labbe well knows, as Whitman’s atoms become pixels, we find ourselves at a crossroads, learning again and again the consequences of “the indescribable way you shape / a past of little use.” —Dan Beachy-Quick$16.00 -
QuickviewStarlight: 150 poems by John Tranter
Poetry, SuperstarsCertainly John Tranter, who has been an international phenomenon for some time, is not one to deny the influences from outside, or to slow down the discussion of whether it all (Beats, Black Mountain, New York School) may be a hoax itself. This open question is, after all, what gives them their plangency and liveliness. Welcome to Tranter’s medicinal coruscating world. You’ll like it. It’ll do you good. — John Ashbery$16.00 -
QuickviewStarlight’s Genesis: An Anthology of the Starlight Gallery
Poetry$25.00Each of these works opens connections to people who often feel disconnected; they offer chances to see ourselves within those who often seem different from us. In that sense, for those who created these, and you who absorb them, they can be the genesis of a newly shared joy.” —Paul T. Hogan
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