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QuickviewDomestic Uncertainties by Leah Umansky
PoetryThe language slips, shifts, recalibrates and the world, shaken, is quietly remade, again and again before our eyes in this lovely, sorrowing and finally transformative book. Leah Umansky is to be congratulated for her sensitive, nuanced, consoling and deeply honest sojourn on the page. —Carole Maso$16.00 -
QuickviewDominus by Tiffany Troy
New Releases, PoetryDominus is as insistent on justice as it is baffled by its own hope, and its indomitable, distinctive voice has a power unlike that of any debut collection I’ve ever read, or of any book in recent memory. — TIMOTHY DONNELLY$18.00 -
QuickviewDown Stranger Roads by Roger Craik
PoetryNo one sounds like Roger Craik. His voice, a beguilingly cosmopolitan mix of British purebred and American mutt, is the well-stamped passport he shows at border crossings from Ashtabula to Auschwitz, from Kent State to Krakow, from Amsterdam to the far-flung outposts of the human heart. This poet is most at home when far from home, prowling the shrapneled boondocks and scrap yards of Cold War history. —George B. Bilger$16.00 -
QuickviewDrink by Laura Madeline Wiseman
PoetryI am reminded how poetry can save us, how, in the hands of such a talented writer as Wiseman, it can raise us from the depths to a cove of still water where, perhaps, who knows, the mermaids are. —Alice Friman$16.00 -
QuickviewDrink Me by Mary Kasimor
PoetryThese poems are full of “voices coming from small places / an acorn.” The result is a startling reorientation in which language and meaning are embodied and re-imbibed: “wholly is a word/you can get your mouth a/round.” These poems are a brilliant and necessary tonic. —Jonathan Minto$16.00 -
QuickviewDRIZZLE POCKET by Tim Roberts
Poetry$16.00There’s an hallucinatory freedom to this tour-de-force of sustained imagination. It’s full of a freshness, an airiness, and at the same time a relentlessness that speaks to Roberts’s careful blending of compassion and determination. This is a book with a social, spiritual, and philosophical plan, and yet they’re handled so subtly that we’re not really aware of them until we put the book down, changed. Tim Roberts is doing something brand-new here—and doing it extremely well. —COLE SWENSEN
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QuickviewE P I L O G U E by Craig Watson, edited by Ted Pearson
New Releases, PoetryEpilogue is a brilliant collection of Craig Watson’s late-stage poetry. As such, it signals neither harmony nor resolution, but intransigence, difficulty, and unresolved conflict. This dazzling, posthumous work admits the reader into a shimmering, luminous present. —Kit Robinson$18.00 -
QuickvieweaQ Oor by Andy Martrich
Poetry$16.00Martrich presents an elusive autobiographical postcard of metadata alongside thickly painted and obscured image-alphabet-code, simultaneously and beautifully quotidian, inherited, catalogued, queried, found, and personal. —Mel Nichols
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QuickviewEcho Park by Christine Hamm
PoetryFrom ""pink-spangled bikinis"" to ""your mother's stolen perfume,"" Christine Hamm's Echo Park is littered with the strange, sexy detritus of life, gorgeous life. —Kate Durbin$16.00 -
QuickviewEkstasis by Peter Valente and Kevin Killian
Poetry, SuperstarsKevin Killian and Peter Valente’s haunting collaboration Ekstasis comes on like one of those dark dreams you can’t seem to shake – it’s memory and sensations still lingering long after you’ve awoken. —Michael Salerno, artist, filmmaker, and publisher.$22.00 -
QuickviewElemental Perceptions: A Panorama by Sophie Sills
Poetry$16.00Its epigraph from Oppen (“The flaw, the gap which is the aware of being, tho it is within it. The flaw on which being presses”) suggests the epistemological concern at the center of Sophie Sills’ Elemental Perceptions: A Panorama: seeing/hearing things and events in the world, how can we know what’s really ‘there’ – that being “with a pulse . . . without a heartbeat . . . [which] is unknown,” yet which seems to be “aware” of us, seems to “press” against us. —Stephen Ratcliffe
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QuickviewEmbankments | Outtakes | Uppercuts by Richard Owens
PoetryEmbankments | Outtakes | Uppercuts brings together three discrete constellations of divers lyric constructions that testify with alacritas to the bullbaiting, cockfighting and bear beating of the present moment.$16.00 -
QuickviewEmotional Support Peacock by Nada Gordon
New Releases, PoetryIn spirit closer to the wild geese than the peacock, Nada Gordon brings together a panoply of voices, including the squawk, the screech, the whisper, the whistle, all of which come together—finally, ultimately—and in language both harsh and exciting, to announce our place in the family of things. One cannot but feel uplifted into the Rapture.—Diana Fisher$18.00 -
QuickviewEndless Spectator, The Screens Suite by Jesse Damiani
PoetryIn an ironic twist, there are no spectators in Endless Spectator. The mere act of looking involves you, and just like on the internet, the act of looking can be transgressive, if not towards the content, but towards yourself. Through its visual bewilderment, Endless Spectator makes you realize that the cacophony of the internet is alive and pulsing, and you’ve already been consumed by it.$22.00 -
QuickviewEpigramititis : 118 Living American Poets by Kent Johnson
Superstars"Thanks for sending me the epigrams.* Superb. It's about time for something of the sort, I'd say, what with the ass licking that rules the day. Especially the ass-licking that some ass-lickers want to pass off as "avant-garde confrontation." My salute... And as to your question, well, yeah, absolutely: Olson, if he'd lived to see what has happened, would have loved these." — Ed Dorn$16.00 -
QuickviewEros & (Fill in the Blank) by Charles Freeland
PoetryCharles Freeland’s poetic voice is that rarity of philosophical posits intertwined with a language of emotional accord. Eros & (Fill in the Blank) contains poetry of invention, reinvention, musical decency drawing the reader into Freeland’s specialized poetic language. — Felino A. Soriano$16.00 -
QuickviewEvening Train by Tom Clark
Poetry, SuperstarsIn Evening Train we witness people on a bus, a window in the night, greenery, a bird on its perch—and then at the center of this world, something nameless seems to open. It’s hard to say just what happens, other than the words of each poem itself. But that isn’t quite right. It’s as if the words are a way for the poet to inscribe silence. You turn the page, wondering, and it arrives again—something quite beyond what is told. Tom Clark is a master. —Aram Saroyan$16.00 -
QuickviewEvery Strange Meridian by Todd Romanowski
PoetryIntensely lyric, often surreal, the poems in Every Strange Meridian cast a spell that is at once dangerous and beautiful. —Joan Houlihan$16.00 -
QuickviewEverything Seems Significant by Jan Bottiglieri
Poetry“Everything Seems Significant sails and embraces... such a deep, kaleidoscopic dive it takes. This is brilliant, inspired work. So much has been written about Blade Runner, but none of it penetrates like this. The spell of it all is distilled and caught in the sly, prescient grip of Bottiglieri's poems.” —Hampton Fancher$16.00 -
QuickviewEverything Turns On A Delicate Measure by Maureen Owen
New Releases, Poetry, SuperstarsWhat is the restless energized measure for an expanding universe? Maureen Owen is one of our most exploratory poet inventors whose sound and sense insure what’s hidden from view gets more mysterious. ... This book is a reason to celebrate and continue. —Anne Waldman$18.00 -
Quickviewface blindness by Megan A. Volpert
PoetryMegan A. Volpert's full-length debut startles and spirits us through the invisible and daring detritus of dialogue and story, NYC and Normal, Illinois, "name pong poetry" and "copyright infringement," letters laced with love for John Yau and Roland Barthes, phantasmagoria and prosopagnosia, fecund cullings from the minds of Jacques Derrida and Friedrich Nietzsche, ambling pathos and anxious heart, and everything in between.—Amy King$16.00 -
QuickviewFaceless Names – Two Books of Letters by Anna Elena Eyre
PoetryRead this book in the dark, with a flashlight. Read this book when you are open, really open to the world, to your world, to language and rain. Anna Elena Eyre writes magnificent poems, poems that breathe and sing and imagine and paint. I am very grateful to her. —Joseph Lease$16.00 -
QuickviewFailure Lyric by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryKristina Marie Darling gives us a narrative in images both surreal and everyday that recur and accrete to evoke a sense of deep and irrevocable loss. It's impossible to read without feeling similarly moved. —Janet Holmes$16.00 -
QuickviewFAKE NEWS POEMS by Martin Ott
Poetry“Martin Ott collects clickbait headlines and transmutes them into lyric truths.” —Jesse Walker$16.00
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