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QuickviewLetters To An Albatross by Anita Mohan
Poetry'No ideas but in things.' In lieu of abstraction and sentimentality, Anita Mohan presents 'real gardens' with real apperceptions in them. More inlooker than onlooker, she enlivens the flora and fauna of this volume with her being-in-the-landscape. —Steven Felicell$16.00 -
QuickviewLexicartographies by Nicholas Alexander Hayes
New Releases, PoetryNicholas Alexander Hayes's Lexicartographies feels like a microscopic look at an ever-shifting organism, with language serving as a tool for mapping out its evolution and tiniest particles, both fragile and brutal in their raw, naked reality. —Dominik Miles$20.00 -
QuickviewLIFT OFF: a journey of future tense by Stephen Bett
New Releases, PoetryCanadian poet Stephen Bett has been called a legend internationally. His 24th book, Lift Off: a journey of future tense, like his recent ones, is a serial poem―minimalist in its poetics, and subtle enough to sustain repeated readings. The book concerns painful, but edgy, movement out of chaos and disrepair and into new beginning, into a ‘lifting off’.$16.00 -
QuickviewLight at the End of the Word by Cheryl Pallant
New Releases, Poetry$18.00Pallant’s poetry seeks connection transducing passed the tympanic membrane whilst continually registering the energy emitting materiality of one’s own body, the wounded other, and the conditions that quicken cosmic connect/to feral superfluity in full throttled resonance. —Kimberly Lyons
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QuickviewLight Reading by Stephan Delbos
PoetryLight Reading ranges from micro-minimalist poems to all-encompassing lyric declarations and metatextual litanies. The book’s first section, “Light Reading,” begins with an aubade and ends with a lullaby. In between, these short poems grapple with the marks words make on existence, exploring themes of language and memory, and confronting the work of great poets and thinkers.$16.00 -
QuickviewLIGHT-HEADED by Matt Hart
PoetryIn Matt Hart’s poetry, crackling diction and soulful exuberance take the wheel for a happily bent ride through waking and dreaming spaces. Hart works the contours of his chosen forms with precision and humor, and emphasizes reoccurrence as poetic value and material dynamic through which to channel further depths of possibility for the imagination. —Anselm Berrigan$16.00 -
QuickviewLilith Walks by Susan M. Schultz
New Releases, PoetryThis humane book, interconnected with her dogged, personable companion, Lilith, investigates life’s multifaceted and poignant zones. —Rachel Blau DuPlessis$22.00 -
QuickviewLimitless Tiny Boat by Ruth Danon
PoetryBy investigating the minutiae of life—the stuff that anchors us, a stone and its echo, paradoxes constructed by language—Ruth Danon investigates nothing short of Thanatos and Eros. The journey of the Limitless Tiny Boat is fierce and fearless. Watch out! These poems expand and contract—breathe—as they are read. A substantial achievement. —Martine Bellen$16.00 -
QuickviewLine And Pause by Forrest Roth
Fiction"Driven by deep experimentation with the conventions of fiction--chapter, plot, the requirements against obliteration--but with a shameless commitment to narrative, Roth makes a novel seemingly from thin air. In a poetic voice inflected by visual and aural space, Line and Pause reveals both the body and the spirit of the artistic life." — Kazim Ali$18.00 -
Quickviewlithic cornea (Volume V, The Grammaton Series) by Irene Koronas
New Releases, PoetryIrene Koronas’ Grammaton Series is an antithetical subphylum launching its egg, planula larva, polyp and tryst autoaffects. —Thetica Zorg$18.00 -
QuickviewLittle Cliffs by Paul Naylor
New Releases, Poetry“Little Cliffs is a philosophical adventure story. Both characters (Kai and Chishō) and narrator struggle to transcend binaries while wandering the brushy canyonland of eastern San Diego and studying “The Uncertainty Sutra,” The Rule-Governed Sutra, “The Sutra That Shouldn’t Be Written,” etc. Narration enacts choice. Here choices are made, unmade, and remade in a prose poem as serious and light as a sutra.” —Rae Armantrout$16.00 -
QuickviewLittle: Novels by Emily Anderson
Fiction, PoetryCome for the Michael Landon Flip Book; stay for the richly rewoven story that excavates hidden moments in Little House on the Prairie and pays playful homage to fan favorites like prairie bitch Nellie Oleson. Little is a new classic, skillfully foraging Laura Ingalls Wilder's much-loved series to create an (ir)reverent rereading that pioneers the new frontier of Little House on the Prairie in the 21st-century. —Alison Fraser$25.00 -
QuickviewLIZARD or EASY ANSWERS: They Are None Being a Novel Tracing of the Yi Jing/ I Ching Seen to by Thomas Meyer
Fiction, SuperstarsLizard offers the poet and reader a simultaneous process of personal narration, a creation evolving thought the constant change of form, the reading and the writing in a balancing act of creation, and divination improvisation. Lizard an ever being written and, therefore, changing form of poetic prose thought the I Ching: A form of interpreted life is a meaningful form of poetry. —Michael Basinski$18.00 -
QuickviewLost Poet, Four Plays By Jesse Glass
DramaIn this selection of plays, Jesse Glass‘ imagination rages, leaps and staggers from the Challenger disaster of 1986 to the hallucinated lucubrations of Thomas Holley Chivers (friend and rival of Edgar Allan Poe), and manages to cover the arrival of a cosmic, sexual vermiform lemure of the Kabbalistic Bohu-Tohu in a reportorial manner worthy of Philip Glass on N.P.R., while ringing the changes on a young man’s sexual angst in the face of the ambiguities of the Summerland.$20.00 -
QuickviewLove at the End by Wade Stevenson
New Releases, PoetryIn the formal immediacy of these new poems, Wade Stevenson practices elegy in the imperative mode, in the faithful idioms of amazement. And so it happens that he is vividly able to address evidence and events of loss in their proper bodies, in a tender, mutual anguish. Along the way, he discovers wild decorums of love in the embrace of annihilation. These poems are a consolation beyond consolation, an unprecedented heaven on earth. —Donald Revell$16.00 -
QuickviewMadstones by Corey Mesler
Poetry“These poems-- at times dark and troubling, at other times passionate and openhearted--are the work of a very talented poet. Madstones is a book worthy of a smart and attentive audience.” —Ron Rash$16.00 -
QuickviewMainstream by Michael Magee
PoetryRight from the start, Magee’s work bristles with the spirit of improvisation. Everything about it pops: classic poetry chops, a serious sense of humor, unabashed rawness. Mainstream is thrilling because it can turn in any direction at any time, moving effortlessly from wacked units of thought turning inside out to tender moments of highly focused nonsense and song that get, paradoxically, straight to the point. --Drew Gardner$16.00 -
QuickviewMaps for Jackie by Jason Labbe
PoetryJason Labbe’s wonderfully moving and inventive collection Maps for Jackie is an open journey into desire and its fathomlessness. Though the poems dislocate between something and nothing, it’s a loving ride where “waking finds / morning the inmost warp / in space time.” The book is filled with impeccable craft. It’s a terrific work and worth the trip. I’m on board. —PETER GIZZI$16.00 -
QuickviewMarine Layer by Kit Robinson
Poetry, SuperstarsKit Robinson convects his frontal systems through Marine Layer, happy to be enveloped in its fog while somehow always letting its poems breathe. Information sizzles in these data dispatches from the twenty-first century: poetry as a news feed that knows just enough to trust what happens next, lifting the fog—for us all—on the movable things of song. —Miles Champion$16.00 -
QuickviewMasks by Victor Coleman
PoetryVictor Coleman has played with and explored the subtleties of Oulipian procedures for many years, bringing his own imagination and impeccable ear to the revivifying possibilities arrangement offers poetry in lieu of the predictable outpourings of “identity” in the Commercial Poetry Product. With Masks he has reached a point that leaves you breathless in the face of mastery. —Michael Boughn$16.00 -
QuickviewMeet Me at the Happy Bar by Steve Langan
PoetryI'm consistently jealous of Steve Langan's small-a absurdist accuracy, not to mention his unfailing ability to dredge gorgeous song from the hum of the normal. Meet Me at the Happy Bar is sharp, sad, sassy, and frighteningly alive. —Graham Foust$16.00 -
QuickviewMemeWars by Aldon Lynn Nielsen With E. Ethelbert Miller
Critical Thinking, New Releases, Poetry$22.00As you begin Memewars, think of Ethelbert Miller’s leading questions as melodies, recognizable tunes, and Nielsen’s responses as harmolodic extensions, waxing nostalgic, and just as moving, just as important, playing all the changes on a prolific career and life in music and writing. —Tyrone Williams
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QuickviewMetamerican by Seth Abramson
Poetry, SuperstarsAmerica has been awaiting the arrival of a poet like this for a generation. —Barn Owl Review$16.00
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