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QuickviewDangerous Things to Please a Girl by Travis Cebula
PoetryA man wanders through Paris. A man wanders through Eliot. Eliot wanders through Paris. Paris wanders through the man. And, not surprisingly, it all comes out as a love letter. Though addressed to a missing person, these poems have no absence about them at all. Instead, built of the fine detail of daily life, they exude a vivid presence that coalesces into a richly nuanced sense of place, of place-as-lived. And it’s a good life. And an utterly delightful book. —Cole Swensen$16.00 -
QuickviewDATA by Seth Abramson
Poetry, SuperstarsBROWN-EYED POLISH 5’8.602” MASSHOLE FLATFOOTED HAIRY SKIN-TAGGED RUSSIAN 227 POUNDS BADGER FAN DARTMOUTH ’98 BROWN-HAIRED NEAR-SIGHTED JEWISH DANIEL BOOK REVIEWER AGNOSTIC LITHUANIAN ATTORNEY DEMOCRAT GAG REFLEX BEARDED CUP-EARRED COWLICK BALDING FACIAL DEFORMITY PALE 5.6” LONG BARITONE POET BULB-NOSED CIRCUMCISED SLOPE-SHOULDERED IOWA WRITERS WORKSHOP ’09$16.00 -
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QuickviewDay by Kent Johnson
SuperstarsIf the 836-pp. Day established Kenny Goldsmith as without a doubt the leading conceptual poet of his time, the 836-pp. Day by Kent Johnson may well be remembered for nudging the politics of Conceptual Poetry out of blithely affirmative, institutional framings, and into truly negational, critical spaces. —Juliana Spahr$30.00 -
QuickviewDead Letters by Alan May
Poetry$16.00Part Seuss, part Stein, part Brothers (very) Grimm, Dead Letters arrives in a lively blaze of highly accomplished play marking Alan May's own arrival into the quirky exactitude of his peculiarly fine poetry. —Hank Lazer
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QuickviewDead Ringer by Charles Borkhuis
PoetryThere are no illusions in the world of Charles Borkhuis. This is life without eyelids, and what we see is too disquieting for our own good, yet we can't look away. It's like film noir, whose frisson is a bad dream. Borkhuis’ work, though, is the zero hour. —Burt Kimmelman$16.00 -
QuickviewDEAR BEAST LOVELINESS by Timothy J. Myers
PoetryThese meditations on the blessed carcass move us from bed nest to city street, from cellular self to divine sensation. How do we humans recognize who we are in Vietnam, in Rwanda, on a back porch where rain softly falls? Through the body, says Myers, through the body. —Rebekah Bloyd$16.00 -
QuickviewDear Darwish by Morani Kornberg-Weiss
PoetryThe attempt at any kind of dialogue in a world in which people try to protect themselves with silence or/and blasts of self-righteousness is in itself a painful task. With the possibilities of actual communication remote yet imperative, anaphora is a last-ditch tactic. Listen to me and I will be able to understand myself, declares Morani Kornberg-Weiss. —Karen Alkalay-Gut$16.00 -
QuickviewDear You: A Memoir with Poems by Wade Stevenson
PoetryI enjoyed reading DEAR YOU. I admire how the poems pop off the page with a stinging emotional power. HER BREATH IS NOT MINE is a great way to begin this book. —Geoffrey Gatza$16.00 -
Quickviewdeclivities by Irene Koronas
PoetrySiphoning from a trajectory of experimental literature and poetics from Dadaism to Algorithmics and beyond, the Koronas grammaton is fashioned from a panerotism reconciling the disequilibrium encoded within the hyperlinks of a retromanic pleroma and a feminine clinamen. By excavating the figurations of Rimbaud, Dickinson, de Sade, Bataille and many au courant experimentalists, declivities relegates identity and gender to funerary antiques in a reliquary. —Daniel Y. Harris$16.00 -
QuickviewDelaware Memoranda by Richard Owens
PoetryDelaware Memoranda is a lush crosscurrent marked by history's flicker and memory's flame. In these buoyant illuminations, language's intricate shadows and solids reveal and carve at transformations in etymology to create a dialogic swerve that is the person, that is the conversation, that can neither be nor step in the same river twice. This book is tougher than any blurb. —Kyle Schlesinger$16.00 -
QuickviewDeparted Quantities: (A) Quantum Epic by John Dolis
PoetryIn Departed Quantities: (A) Quantum Epic, John Dolis leads us by candlelight down into the rough basement of language, where a “painter in the painting paints / a painting of a painting in the dark.” Dolis’s richly allusive, multivocal language for vision collapses the distance between self and other “such that human being might be more / than we deserve, though infinitely less / than we can dream.” —Tony Trigilio$16.00 -
QuickviewDerrida’s In/Voice by Chris Tysh
PoetryThere is immense talent here — Chris Tysh just gets better and better. With multiple registers and citational energy, the archive is exploded and transformed: we find references to poetry, film, revolution, politics, and philosophy, all effortlessly braided and made dynamic as they speak to one another. With perfectly pitched music, and impeccable form, Derrida’s In/Voice discloses and complicates the knotted conversation between hard and soft power. It’s an awesome book. — Peter Gizzi$16.00
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