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QuickviewSubmissions by Jared Schickling
PoetryCutting ruthless swathes into the dense thickets of history and culture, Jared Schickling's submissions is the linguistic detritus of his singular explorations. Hard to classify, impossible to pin down, this poem demands attentive reading and re-reading. Its unforgiving energy and relentless tension make it seem as if Herman Melville and Susan Howe got together and, during an awkward pause in the conversation, conjured Jared Schickling from a dark corner of the room. —Daniel Bouchard$16.00 -
QuickviewSuch Conjunctions: Robert Duncan, Jess, and Alberto de Lacerda
Critical Thinking, SuperstarsAfter meeting in November 1969 at the International Festival of Poetry in Austin, Texas, the Portuguese poet Alberto de Lacerda (1928-2007) developed a trans-Atlantic friendship with the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan (1919-1988) and his partner, the artist Jess (1923-2004). This book celebrates that friendship by bringing together from the Duncan and de Lacerda archives reproductions and transcriptions of all their extant correspondence in addition to the many inscribed publications, books, magazines, photographs, poems, drawings, and artwork that they shared with each other.$28.00 -
QuickviewSunday Double Suicide by Goro Takano
New Releases, PoetryIn my poetry, orderly chaos reigns. You will keep feeling countless lessons in love and solitude loom up through the mad torrent of myriad images in this book. I hope reading this book will somehow help you navigate your own way through everyday realities. —Goro Takano$16.00 -
QuickviewSung: Ink in love & lust by Mick Raubenheimer
New Releases, PoetryRaubenheimer’s voice is a unique one – a solitary one – one that is rarely heard in South Africa, or even rarely heard this side of consciousness. Some of these poems are like snapshots – short-lined, frequently employing eye-popping wordplay, but always with precision and economy of measure. They can be light-hearted and humourous, yet still cast a pebble into the depths of profundity or even blackness, fear, dark rituals – ‘the violence of magic’. —Gary Cummiskey$18.00 -
QuickviewSunsphere by Andrew Farkas
FictionThis brilliantly satirical and playfully experimental collection upends all expectations—Sunsphere is the perfect book for our absurdist times. Each story is a new philosophical labyrinth of delicious, Barthelme-style surprises. Don a pair of ironic (or earnest!) sunglasses, and enjoy this incredible book. —Alissa Nutting$18.00 -
QuickviewSure Thing by Robin Brox
PoetryLike the images in this thoughtful debut, Brox's poems chart our attraction to surfaces, textures, and weathers with a calm hand intent on recording the ""tenderest ambivalences"" of our desires and senses. —Jennifer Moxley$16.00 -
QuickviewSurface Tension by David Peak
PoetryAmputation of person, amputation of limb, amputation of smaller and smaller shapes of cells. Into his sentences David Peak fits deleted frames from wonderful films we saw once half-asleep, that time asleep on the sofa in that room we would have paid more attention to if we'd known we weren't going to be back there these years later. — Blake Butler$16.00 -
QuickviewSuspended Imagination by Florine Melnyk
Poetry"Suspended Imagination is a wild read. Risky, provocative, cheerfully over-the-edge, at their best these poems are filled with music, humor, and imagination. Always alert for new ways to give form to the wild and strange, Florine Melnyk offers two of the most high-spirited sestinas you'll ever come across and throws in a fine nonce-sestina that engages the reader in a sort of mad treasure hunt for fun and meaning." — Theodore Deppe$16.00 -
QuickviewSweet Boy by Matthew Petit
New Releases, Poetry$18.00At once steely and intimate, these poems invite us to sit with the world in all its beauty and terror —Christine Kitano
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Quickviewt&u& lash your nipples to a post history is gorgeous by Jared Schickling
Poetry“Forgetfulness of everything but bliss,” —John Keats$16.00 -
QuickviewTaste: Gastronomic Poems by Francis Raven
PoetryThe indomitable spirit of cuisine is brought to a boil in this new collection of poems by Francis Raven. Taste revels in the seasons of the senses, as if summer and spring were actions of eating or of smell, asking us in to dinner and savor all that can be experienced in a day. From shopping lists, conversations, recipes to meditative contemplations on tea, these poems are thoughtful as they are a delight. —Aloysius Werner$16.00 -
QuickviewTen by Jennifer Firestone
PoetryUsing her recovering body as a constraint for poetic inspiration, Jennifer Firestone has written poems that are limpid, elemental, tranquil, and full of light. —Cathy Park Hong$16.00 -
QuickviewTender by Travis Cebula
New Releases, Poetry$22.00In Tender Travis Cebula transforms raw, emotional experiences into preserved moments of artful reflection. —Janaka Stucky
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QuickviewTest Camp by Randy Prunty
New Releases, PoetryIn these pages an absorbent and meditative mind faces a world of unrelenting transit. Randy Prunty's ability to take inventory under circumstances where "speed covers loss" is remarkable and sustaining. He would reclaim the accelerated present's "chains of subsequency" and make them meaningful once again. —George Albon$18.00 -
QuickviewThat Woman Could Be You by Vi Khi Nao + Jessica Alexander
New Releases, Poetry, SuperstarsLike Anne Charlotte Robertson's Five Year Diary seen through a fervid haze, its Super 8 frames fractaling in and out of memory's forlorn theatrics, the pieces in this book invite the reader on a jaunt of vanishingly small, gigantic, public, and intimate dimensions. Accept the invitation. Reel with all the ways That Woman Could be You. –– ALI RAZ$22.00 -
QuickviewThe Absence Of The Loved by Wade Stevenson
PoetryLeft. There is the absence There is the wound the shock, the rage, the disbelief and the grief and more for the sinking, suffering heart. In these poems, Wade Stevenson realistically surrounds the departed love with his private raw emotions and with the most wonderful metaphors, fantastic in fact, and with them the poet in his craft knits his hurt into poetry. — Michael Basinski$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Age of Greenhouses by Anne-Adele Wight
PoetryIt is exciting watching a new Anne-Adele Wight poetry fan holding her latest book, their faces beaming until they look up with Wow! Her poetry is a hidden American treasure no longer as more and more poets are sharing her books. It is a privilege to read a poet who has dedicated years to her craft, giving the world some of the best poems we will ever read. The Age of Greenhouses made me say Wow over and over! Let the celebration begin! ––CA Conrad$16.00 -
QuickviewThe American Godwar Complex by Patrick Herron
PoetryPatrick Herron is the author of the chapbooks Man Eating Rice (Blaze VOX) and Three Poems (Gateway Songbooks). His poems and essays have recently appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Jacket, Fulcrum, in the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, and in the anthology 100 Days (Barque Press).$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Antiracism Trainings by David Reich
FictionDavid Reich has written a funny, incisive novel about race, religion, and office politics. He's fearlessly unpious, observant, and witty, but he's also fair to his flawed and often enjoyably irksome characters. His gift for finding nuanced humanity in their semi-good intentions gives warmth and life to this quietly ambitious satire. —Carlo Rotella$22.00 -
QuickviewThe Arctic Circle by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryThe symmetrical aspects of this narrative make for a pristine evocation of crisis and overcoming. Kristina Darling’s fable resists disintegration, challenging instead a forceful awareness. The dynamics here do not permit abjection to pulverize presence. —Brenda Iijima$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Best Word for the Job of Mourning by Jessica Baron
PoetryJessica Baron realizes mourning’s best words refuse their own elegiac nature. In her long sequence death is present not as a shadowy realm from which the loved one will be recalled by the poet’s words; in this poetry death is a place of honest witness.—Dan Beachy-Quick,$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Bird Hoverer By Aaron Belz
PoetryJust what American poetry needs: lots of fresh poems that are weirdly conventional one minute, satisfyingly strange the next. On the surface this violent assault on complacency is playfully serious, but deep down, you notice that the surfaces of these gentle poems glint and catch the light as they turn over and over, patiently waiting for your attention. —John Tranter$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Blooming Void by Peter C. Fernbach
PoetryIn The Blooming Void he enacts this. From a “sea of maroon”; from the “sludge” of a polluted world; from the genesis of a “Fruit Fly in Pile of Dirty Laundry”: from these and more emerges “a contrivance of mind” that may result in “A[n] [imperfect] human attempt/At control and understanding,” but, [imperfect] or not, what else have we? —Dr. David Landrey$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Breath by Cindy Savett
New Releases, PoetryCindy Savett’s The Breath accesses and occupies the territory, real and true, where the living can dwell with the dead. The speaker’s beloved daughter lives on, in spirit and lyric, as she “steps into the stable of vanished gods.” Savett’s skillful elegies hold the daughter’s hand and reader’s attention across the threshold. — Jason Labbe, author of Spleen Elegy$16.00
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