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QuickviewMind Over Matter by Gloria Frym
Critical Thinking, SuperstarsHow does the present imprint itself on language, on poetry? Gloria Frym's Mind Over Matter shows us that: the outlines of the endless wars, the credit default swaps. But it also shows poetry resisting this. "No poem/would stand for such a line." Frym writes. "A poem is not a fool." This book makes me want to cheer. —Rae Armantrout$16.00 -
QuickviewMingling Among by Paul Naylor
New Releases, PoetryPaul Naylor’s Mingling Among is a beautifully sustained, thought-provoking, and companionable prose poem in five interrelated sections. Taking the paragraph as his primary unit of composition, scenes are rendered in ever-changing frames of time, scale, and location, in a measured if kaleidoscopic inquiry into the possibility of overcoming our obsession with binary constructions and the domination of nature. —Ted Pearson$18.00 -
QuickviewMinnows Small as Sixteenth Notes by Norma Kassirer edited by Ann Goldsmith and Edric Mesmer
PoetryNorma Kassirer, widely known as the author of the delightful Magic Elizabeth, brings the same imagination, intelligence, whimsy, and delight to the poetry collected here. ––Michael Boughn$18.00 -
QuickviewMiscellaneous Debris by Nicolas Mansito III
PoetrySurfing the emotional sea, this latest collection from Nick Mansito tosses the soul from crest to deep. Brilliant! Exciting! A beautiful look into the roller coaster soul of the poet. A perfect blend of heart and spleen, this is Mansito at his best. If this is ""debris,"" then it's time for poetry lovers everywhere to go dumpster-diving! ~ G. R. Maddison$16.00 -
QuickviewMOCK TROUGH RASPING CROW by Billy Cancel
PoetryReading MOCK TROUGH RASPING CROW I was captivated in much the same way as when I watched billy cancel perform, though the masks & at times flamboyant costumes were missing I was caught up in the language, dark humor, magic & surreal screwball imagery. This is 1 of those rare instances where performance poetry transfer perfectly from page to stage & vice-versa so “don’t let your attention wander” as cancel puts it, MTRC is about “everything at once / or something all the time.” Grab it, crack it open & try, if you dare, to figure it out. —Steve Dalachinsky$16.00 -
QuickviewMolloy the Flip Side by Chris Tysh
PoetryMolloy: The Flip Side transcreates the first half of Beckett's 1951 French novel, narrated by its eponymous anti-hero who is slowly going nowhere. The hobo lyrics of Tysh's book-length poem open up the unendurable abyss of being, yet zing with vernacular and zany humor: ""Gotta check out soon/ Be done with dying,"" Molloy says, but there's a few things he must do first. And so begins the uncanny journey in this poetic B-side of Beckett's masterpiece.$16.00 -
QuickviewMoon Talk by Wade Stevenson
PoetryWilliam Carlos Williams wrote it is always proper to talk about the moon. Rite about the moon: “Moon Talk” by Wade Stevenson, a hypnotic tide rocks within the waves of this book, the power of the tide, forces push and pull throughout “Moon Talk”, the talk that rocks and swaddles the ear with heart. —Michael Basinski$16.00 -
QuickviewMorpheu by Alejandro Crawford
PoetryFrom political change to pocket change, shipments to shipwrecks, quotations to digital code, Alejandro Crawford never met a morphosis he didn't like, and here in these pages neither will you. —Craig Dworkin$18.00 -
QuickviewMORPHEUS: A BILDUNGSROMAN by John Kinsella
Fiction, SuperstarsMorpheus has its origins in a novel John Kinsella worked on in his late teens — a time of transition between adolescence and adulthood, but not a time before he had at least glimpsed the contours of the vast, interconnecting literary project that was to be his lifelong pursuit. An amalgam of realism and fantasy, of fiction, poetry, and drama, the project limned the phantasmagoric yet self-questioning and disciplined emotional terrain that has so captivated and intrigued his many current readers worldwide.$22.00 -
QuickviewMorphology by Ruth Lepson & Walter Crump
PoetryIn the first image of Ruth Lepson and Walter Crump’s Morphology, the eye follows train tracks into a distant background of earth-meets-sky, the sky a near circle of light, presenting at the same time an enclosure and an eternity. The first text suggests a linkage of thinking and seeing: if I think it, it appears. This book is magic. I want to read it a thousand times. - Charles Alexander$18.00 -
QuickviewMoth Moon by Matt Jasper
Poetry"The Roman poet Petronius once avowed that, considered rightly, there is shipwreck everywhere. In Moth Moon, Matt Jasper goes farther still, proving time and again that shipwreck is a treasure unto itself, a perfect emerald before and after all mishap. Here, vision is rewarded with new eyes, and I am grateful for the news." —Donald Revell$16.00 -
QuickviewMultiverse by Michael Smith
PoetryReading Mike Smith’s Multiverse is like watching Adam bring forth new creatures from the mud of language by breathing their name. Two books in one, one a bestiary of bodies, the other a personal history, both are a tour de force of the anagram: a thrilling demonstration of how the constraints of language and living produce poetry in life, as poem after poem infects one another. —Steve Tomasula$16.00 -
QuickviewMusee Mechanique by Rodney Koeneke
PoetryRodney Koeneke's quick-paced, hilarious, often vulgar juxtapositions are rude to understanding but courteous as a calling card to anyone who cares about the life of language. Assembled with delight, affection, and a connoisseur's ear for the latent pleasures of babble, Musee Mechanique is a joyous record of the words in our head, c. 2006. I love this book. —Benjamin Friedlander$16.00 -
QuickviewMuseum Hours by Michael Kelleher
Poetry“Attraction has its pulls,” writes Michael Kelleher. Museum Hours maps, in moving ways, the force of gravity that art has on our lives, our attentions. One trusts the secrets that Kelleher’s poems share. With their precision, their quietness, their frequently keen but subtle wit, these poems enter the ear and the mind as intimately as a sudden sense of wonder just before “the roof gives way to the stars.” —Richard Deming$16.00 -
QuickviewMuseum of Thrown Objects by Andrew K. Peterson
PoetryImagine an ocean leaving its bed to hover above itself, where it should not be, to form a "silhouette" visible against an "afternoon." The technology of displacement is deployed, in Andrew Peterson's brilliant book, to create: not "delay" but "fusion." It makes sense, then, to build a museum out of artifacts that would, in the wetness beyond architecture, disappear by "low tide", but are instead "kept." Locked away in a decaying archive, "the thrown objects" form perverse alliances when the lights dim. Where the genitalia should be, for example, are "leafs and bugs." —Bhanu Kapil$18.00 -
QuickviewMy Aunt’s Abortion by Jane Rosenberg LaForge
New Releases, PoetryMy Aunt’s Abortion, a collection of essays and poetry by Jane Rosenberg LaForge, treks the landscape of family. It is an uneven terrain of uncertain memories and mundanities, old and discovered traumas, the vagaries of circumstance and outcome and loss—the unattainable, whether dreams or abortion. —K-B Gressitt$18.00 -
QuickviewMy Grunge of 1991 by Dennis Etzel Jr.
PoetryWithin the poem, “a list of alphabetized semblances for keeping track of occurrences out of post-trauma,” the speaker negotiates a way between quotations. Even pre-9/11, “we [were] no longer safe,” so he cloaks himself in “Grunge music, comic books, and Star Trek.” Amidst the dystopia of the First Gulf War, Dennis Etzel, Jr. brilliantly imagines a utopia where “there are no boy or girl Happy Meal toys – only Hot Wheels or Barbie.” In other words, this absorbing prose-poem sequence is an inoculation against – and hope for – the present. —Joseph Harrington -
QuickviewMy ID by Bill Lavender
PoetryLife happened before it was over. Then there is the sorting out that empties into overlaid panes, mind’s planets, which Bill Lavender navigates in My ID with consummate élan and a strong dose of “impolite, unpolitic” dissent. —Charles Bernstein$16.00 -
QuickviewMy Kinship With The Lotus Eaters by Lewis LaCook
New Releases, PoetryMy Kinship With The Lotus Eaters confirms Lewis LaCook’s status as an irresistible poet of sensuous, intelligent, surprising work. At the border of synesthesia (“Ellipses in a woodpecker’s throat”), ephemera take shape and miraculously last. —Sheila E. Murphy$16.00 -
QuickviewMy Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry
PoetryMy Next Heart: New Buffalo Poetry is a collection of poetry from young Buffalo writers. The poems in this anthology capture the energy and creative output from the city’s thriving slam, alt-lit, spoken word, language poetry, academic, and publishing communities.$18.00 -
QuickviewMy Secret Wars of 1984 by Dennis Etzel, Jr.
PoetryThe world of 1984 has a deft tenacity in the hands of Dennis Etzel, Jr. This book blends the personal to the greater political as only the best possible memoir can do. We are all in this world together and the strangest things occur, sometimes when other strange things occur, and I thank Mr. Etzel for his brilliant, sharp reminder. —CAConrad$16.00 -
Quickviewmylar by Eric Wertheimer
Poetry"Where we live, we live in cars,” Eric Wertheimer writes in Mylar, of an eerily postmodern city where “Dust storm at the mirror of stars.” Wertheimer locates us in an at-times gorgeously realized lyric moment—a perfectly rhymed couplet, for instance, or the sly grammatique of this deftly languaged poetry. The visionary range of Wertheimer’s poetic dictions across centuries is riveting, and the swerve to tender, embodied attentiveness and vulnerability so moving. Mylar is miracle. —Cynthia Hogue$16.00 -
QuickviewN7ostradamus by Travis Macdonald
PoetryThis is a book written from a spirited and volatile unconscious. Read it when it's raining, or at night, or with your eyes completely closed. —Bhanu Kapil$16.00 -
QuickviewNaming God by Jennifer J. Thompson
Mobilis in MobiliThis book is part of our moblis in mobli series, a free ebook with a printed books that is for sale from us as well as Amazon.com.$15.00
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