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QuickviewThe Bird Hoverer By Aaron Belz
PoetryJust what American poetry needs: lots of fresh poems that are weirdly conventional one minute, satisfyingly strange the next. On the surface this violent assault on complacency is playfully serious, but deep down, you notice that the surfaces of these gentle poems glint and catch the light as they turn over and over, patiently waiting for your attention. —John Tranter$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Blooming Void by Peter C. Fernbach
PoetryIn The Blooming Void he enacts this. From a “sea of maroon”; from the “sludge” of a polluted world; from the genesis of a “Fruit Fly in Pile of Dirty Laundry”: from these and more emerges “a contrivance of mind” that may result in “A[n] [imperfect] human attempt/At control and understanding,” but, [imperfect] or not, what else have we? —Dr. David Landrey$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Built World by George Albon
New Releases, PoetryIn The Built World connection is understood as the spaces between things and scenes that move continuously, resonating underneath with all represented surfaces and experiences. This is a tough, beautiful, provocative, companionable book of poems. —Anselm Berrigan$18.00 -
QuickviewThe Camel’s Pedestal, Poems 2009–2017 by Anne Tardos
Poetry, SuperstarsFree-ranging, intelligent, a poetry of wit and survival—to be “crazy not to go crazy” and not going crazy and making art in the face of that: “finally taking a stand” . . . “there is no shortage of things to do on the path to a better life” and “letting things be,” “tip-toeing around the good and the terrible”—Maurice Scully$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Color Symphonies by Wade Stevenson
PoetryThis is a visionary work. It’s a torrent, a whirlwind, a symphony of colors. It’s a blazing apocalypse of rainbows, a dazzling setting sun of the material world. Surely it was written in some god-inspired, intoxicated state reflected through the rational mind of a star-struck color scientist. —Aloysius Werner$18.00 -
QuickviewThe Demotion of Pluto by Deborah Meadows
Drama, PoetryIn Deborah Meadows’ The Demotion of Pluto runs of poetry bleed into plays. The title play recasts Sophocles’ Philoctetes; Obstacle Plays riffs on Michael Fried’s Art and Objecthood that considers minimalist sculpture as both theatrical and an obstacle; and Nothing to Do works intensive differences between brilliant and crumbling minds situated in the aftermath of street struggle.$16.00 -
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QuickviewThe Desense of Nonfense by Megan A. Volpert
PoetryNot since the Nature Theater of Oklahoma has such a cast of characters been recruited in the name of narrative theory and good clean fun. Starring icons of culture high and low, from Slavoj Zizek to Simon Cowell, from Akira Kurosawa to Will Ferrell, Volpert's essay on nonsense is a Technicolor triumph. —Jena Osman$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Distancing Effect by Maryam Monalisa Gharavi
PoetryA beautifully tangled collection of poems that reveal an intense focus on the world, not as a singular philosophical phenomenon but a series of sensual encounters that always seem to be on the verge of revelation. Like all great writers, Maryam Monalisa Gharavi leads us to the precipice of some greater understanding of our circumstances and ourselves, then withdraws and encourages us to take the final step into the wondrous ether on our own. —Michael Thomsen$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Ecstasy of Capitulation By Daniel Borzutzky
Poetry"Lucretius and Epictetus; Franz Kafka and Daniil Kharms; Lucretia Mott and William James; William Bronk and Bernadette Mayer: Daniel Borzutzky is their heir and equal. He is a world class author. - Gabriel Gudding$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Edge of the Underworld by Michael Ruby
Poetry“Call it immersion”: take Michael Ruby’s sibilant heterographic tour of the underworld’s underwords and rediscover in these homophonic burrows that sonic intersection is ear + imagination. —Judith Goldman$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Empress of Frozen Custard & Ninety-Nine Other Poems by Jorge Guitart
PoetryJorge Guitart’s poetry is not for the masses but it is for everyone. The Empress of Frozen Custard is awash in marvels. Guitart is a master of language, a tongue trickster, a feller of fashion. In this, his second volume of English poetry, he has done it again, producing a collection that sings and laughs and cries all at once. In the words of Yankee fans praising one of their most beloved players, “Hip, hip, Jor-gé!” —Pablo Medina$16.00
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