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QuickviewGerald Locklin: A Critical Introduction
Critical ThinkingI am most happy to say that this book celebrates the poet Gerald Locklin. It is an homage to Gerald Locklin, a poet whose neck of the woods is the literary underground, which is the publishing stratum that has delivered Howl and The Maximus Poems and Ulysses and The Making of Americans and Flower Fist and Bestial Wail. Not a bad list. His is a forceful, absolutely clear and democratic voice that constantly reminds all of us in the realm of the poem that our poetry is all of us who make all of our poetry. —Michael Basinski$25.00 -
QuickviewGhost / Landscape by Kristina Marie Darling & John Gallaher
PoetryGHOST / LANDSCAPE reads like an intimate chat, except not the kind people have over tea. Maybe it's whiskey causing these emotional flare-ups ("They warned me about you"), these bouts of nostalgia ("You wake wondering where the antique chickens are"), these lamentations about lost love (count the number of missed phone calls throughout), these discomfiting confessions ("...I had always thought unhappiness would be easy"). The chemistry between these poets is electric; it lights up the page. —Diana Spechler$16.00 -
QuickviewGhosts of the Upper Floor: The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood), Book 3 by Tony Trigilio
PoetryThere’s so much to admire in Tony Trigilio’s addictive new book (the third in his delicious Dark Shadows poetry soap opera): the obsessive vision, the light and dark of emotion, and the everyday world brushing eerily—sometimes hilariously—against the supernatural. —Aaron Smith$16.00 -
QuickviewGirl in Two Pieces by Elizabeth Hatmaker
PoetryElizabeth Hatmaker has a quiet way of crunching up our world. She excels in shaking out the dirty little corners of the mind, particularly the mind of misogynist history. In the person of Elizabeth Short, the so-called "Black Dahlia," she has found her heroine, the way Leonard Cohen found Joan of Arc--or perhaps how Raymond Queneau found Zazie in the metro--for in Girl we see Elizabeth Short refracted and perfected through multiple stylistic prisms and processes. —Dodie Bellamy$16.00 -
QuickviewGirls’ Book of Knots by K. D. Harryman
New Releases, PoetryWith a sharp, tender eye for life’s beauty and brutality, K.D. Harryman’s “Girls’ Book of Knots,” is an instruction manual on how to survive the tightly knotted world of girlhood. Drawing from wisdom and warning, these poems thread together stories of childhood and motherhood with all of its charms, hurts, and triumphs. —Vandana Khanna$18.00 -
Quickviewgnōstos by Irene Koronas (Volume VII, The Grammaton Series)
New Releases, PoetryKoronas makes me see words that aren’t there. Her gnōstos is mantic, and her Sophia—the liquid crystal wombed God—inseminates with ink, strumous as an ethotic alley (i.e., a post-bodied diachronic polysemic strangulation). gnōstos is our proleptic apocalypse; “the last Oedipus/licks his gonads.” —Tom Prime$20.00 -
QuickviewGODZENIE by Marcus Slease
PoetryThese are not merely some of the most extraordinary lyrics about central European urban realities since the death of the great Polish experimental poet Miron Bialoszewski. They are, simply put, some of the most extraordinary lyrics I have ever read about how to live with disciplined joy in the continual alienation that is urban life. —Gabriel Gudding$16.00 -
QuickviewGoing Head To Head by Wade Stevenson
PoetryGoing Head to Head is a book-length poem meditating on life through the lens of the head, the senses it captures in the natural world, and the turmoil inside the mind. In this sonorous collection, we have the yoyo head, the shrunken head, the coin head, the disembodied head, and the conjoined head. — Martin Ott$16.00 -
QuickviewGoing with the Flow by Peter Siedlecki
PoetryCrystalline would describe the language of Peter Siedlecki's Going with the Flow, an outstanding set of poetic essays chockfull of surprises. —Jorge Guitart$16.00 -
QuickviewGolden Age by Seth Abramson
Poetry, SuperstarsSeth Abramson is author of The Metamodern Trilogy, which includes Golden Age (2017), DATA (2016), and Metamericana (2015), all published by BlazeVOX. He is also the author of The Insider’s Guide to Graduate Creative Writing Degrees (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2018); Thievery, winner of the Akron Poetry Prize (University of Akron Press, 2013); Northerners, winner of the Green Rose Prize (New Issues/Western Michigan University Press, 2011); and The Suburban Ecstasies (Ghost Road Press, 2009).$16.00 -
QuickviewGoodbye Public and Private by James Sanders
PoetryGoodbye Public and Private is the work of a barbarian Thomas Edison—poems that are not simply wildly inventive but rather the end-result of a perpetual cycle of creation, destruction, and re-creation of poetic convention on every page. “[A]s a series of discarded habits,” Sanders offers us everything from diagram poems—the21 st century equivalent of Charles Peirce's logical graphs—to procedural, conceptual, concrete, hand-written, hand-drawn poems driven as much by sight and sound as sense. We are awash in language and we are grateful. – Lori Emerson$16.00 -
QuickviewGradually the World: New and Selected Poems, 1982 – 2013 by Burt Kimmelman
Poetry, SuperstarsThe specificity of Burt Kimmelman's poems has, for more than thirty years, been a singularly locating force. It situates us in space, in relation to the luminosity of objects, art, and one another. That every shadow of wonder can stand forth in the most familiar words is the gift this poet offers his readers time and again. – Susan Howe$18.00 -
Quickviewgrief notes by rob mclennan
PoetryGood grief! mclennan—in elision of subject, omission of object, in suppression of narrative—has rewritten the grammar of love. He jiggers love radically in suspended prepositions. He newly measures it in hesitations and in the innumberable small moments between comma and semi-colon. Those discretions. —Dennis Cooley$16.00 -
QuickviewGuides, Translators, Assistants, Porters a polyvocal American epic minus the details by Jared Schickling
Poetry…nation…limning…common ground…sought…thwarted…sought again… (ES) …imagination expansive…elemental…construction…without end… (MB)$16.00 -
QuickviewHandbook for the Newly Disabled, A Lyric Memoir by Allison Blevins
New Releases, PoetryHandbook for the Newly Disabled is a beautiful lyric memoir of disability: of the dailyness of grief, parenting, queerness, and pain in the setting of navigating illness. Allison Blevins writes gorgeously around, inside, and through illness, welcoming and challenging readers on every page, in every lyric turn. —Krys Malcom Belc$16.00 -
Quickviewhaving been blue for charity kari edwards
SuperstarsThe suspicion that writing will be the last utopia is barkingly fulfilled by the extraordinary promise and quivering present of kari edward's careening, techo, lyrical, horny, deep and lustrous oeuvre. Big thanks to this publisher for giving us more of what she sent. —Eileen Myles$16.00 -
QuickviewHaving Broken, ARE by Evelyn Reilly
New Releases, PoetryEvelyn Reilly's poetry evokes and identifies the very deepest and complex emotions lurking below the surface angst of our crimes against and love for the Earth. — Lyna Hinkel,$18.00 -
QuickviewHeisenberg’s Salon by Susan Lewis
PoetryTiny stories, or large poems, Susan Lewis’s writing features exacting, figurative frames, windows in which glimpses of oneself are prismy, apposed by some other real—allegory—sounded in language’s slanted order (ardor?—(yes)). —Dale Smith$16.00 -
QuickviewHello Ice by Diana Adams
PoetryA magpie dazzler of a book, Hello Ice is, quite explicitly, a world of refraction, re-layering, and rebirth – this is what happens when Alchemy meets Project, and off they go waltzing into the forest together. —Ana Božicevic$16.00 -
QuickviewHenri, Sophie, & The Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound: Poems Blasted from the Vortex by Tom Holmes
PoetryPart history, part aesthetic statement, part obsession, Henri, Sophie, & The Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound: Poems Blasted from the Vortex is, most of all, a lyrical exploration of life lived like the sharp cut of a chisel through marble. – Tod Marshall$16.00 -
QuickviewHer Body Listening by Cheryl Pallant
PoetryIn this new poetry collection, Cheryl Pallant plays both with the harsh discordance of language and its soothing homophones “line by line, sharps by flats, horn by heard.” Ornette Coleman’s free jazz comes to mind. —Brigitte Byrd$16.00 -
QuickviewHeretical Materialism: A Pasolini Triptych by George Fragopoulos
New Releases, PoetryHeretical Materialism: A Pasolini Triptych, enters into direct colloquy with voices and images of the past that feel even more essential to us now in this rendering. — Ammiel Alcalay$18.00 -
QuickviewHi-Density Politics by Urayoán Noel
PoetryAnd marvelously, we feel freedom-potential in Hi-Density Politics. Noel rattles the “big other” symbolic order just long enough for the signs to slink out from under it, unbridled, furiously cute, in maximalist rhythms. —Rodrigo Toscano$16.00 -
QuickviewHistoric Diary by Tony Trigilio
PoetryTony Trigilio’s Historic Diary (named after Lee Harvey Oswald’s account of his time in the Soviet Union) excavates the nightmarish record of the first Kennedy assassination, its auguries and aftermath, with a blue fury and an obsessive zeal that border on the Talmudic. What he finds there goes beyond chilling to a pure-product-of-America craziness that makes me tremble for my country. “I am waiting // for someone to / ride me, the / locomotive of history,” Trigilio writes, and his ticket beyond the grave takes us, willy-nilly, on this scarifying, brilliant, and disturbing ride.—Rachel Loden$16.00
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