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QuickviewThree Suite by Christophe Casamassima
Poetry$16.00In Christophe Casamassima’s Three Suite, recombination and erasure make visible the edges of an intelligently empathetic poetics of rediscovery. These poems are indebted to their found texts, but are always looking forward to the new line that is made possible only by way of procedural mapping. Casamassima skillfully weaves together a landscape in which the poem becomes total texture ... —Julia Bloch
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QuickviewThrough a Certain Forest by Laura Madeline Wiseman
PoetryWe are given a field guide to trees in Laura Madeline Wiseman’s latest book of poetry Through a Certain Forest, realizing as we step in that we are deep in the mythos of ourselves. Each poem is a persona, each tree species recounting its survival from humans. Us homo sapiens are the trolls lurking through the middle of the collection. In the midst of bombings and ecological disasters caused by us is the private life of the speaker, too, living with her own personal troll. —Dennis Etzel, Jr$16.00 -
QuickviewTO BE SUNG by Michael Kelleher
Poetry$16.00"Michael Kelleher's deft poems have often a wry poignance and sing the old songs with fresh particulars. So it's as ever where we are that counts, and that's where these poems are, always." —Robert Creeley -
Quickviewto go without blinking by Aimee Herman
PoetryAimee Herman is a cyborg. Not in the sense of a mixture but: in her impetus. Her desire for a book to be a new kind of thinking and being in the world. As she writes in the startling Statement of Poetics that opens this passionate collection: ""This body of text practices trilingualism and contraction. Theories include gender confiscation and syntax dissection."" I liked that. A syntax that records what happens to a body even more than the words themselves. And that's just page one. Throw away ""the color pink,"" writes Herman, deeper in. —Bhanu Kapil$16.00 -
QuickviewTo Hush All The Dead by William Allegrezza
New Releases, PoetryA poet bountifully rooted in geography, Allegrezza transcends the usual sense of place. In To Hush All The Dead, he reveals that every one of us faces “The Natural Trail Marked,” simultaneously experiencing a lack of understanding and hard self-questioning, as a sense of direction seems “thrown to bits and folded in blue.” —Sheila E. Murphy$18.00 -
QuickviewTo The Eaves By Lisa Forrest
PoetryThese poems unfurl in the reader's palm in bird song and flight: the natural world has never been more sensuous or sung. Yet human nature, thwarted love is her true topic. Lisa Forrest's To The Eaves , takes us to the heights with grace and sweet song. —Brenda Coultas$16.00 -
QuickviewTo The River by Diana Adams
FictionDiana S. Adams’ To The River, is a delicious novella – the first of a trilogy – that is both resolutely gritty and often magical. It’s a wonderful, modern-day exploration of urban life, with characters who stick to the ribs and travel well past the final pages. Adams is a spare, clear-eyed and fearless writer who wades into the lives of her characters and reveals just enough to give them perfect breath. A mere glimpse of a character in an Adams’ novella is full meal – with wine, dessert and an espresso. She reveals the right flavours and readers come away with a full understanding, complete with unanswered questions.$16.00 -
QuickviewTom Clark Collection
Poetry, SuperstarsThe Tom Clark collection contains his six titles from BlazeVOX. This is a great set of electrifying work by one of America’s foremost poets. At the Fair | Canyonesque | Feeling for the Ground | Truth Game | Evening Train | Distance$50.00 -
Quickviewtoo ok by Colin Herd
Poetry'Colin Herd's 'too ok' is a treasure trove of razzle-dazzle stylings, superfine wit, charismatic discretion, and a vacuuming tenderness. Herd's gift for words is exquisite and adventurous and armed to the teeth, and these poems are its perfect measurements.' —Dennis Cooper$16.00 -
QuickviewTorched Verse Ends by Steven D. Schroeder
PoetryThese are the poems of a hooch-swilling layabout, shifty-eyed sneak thief, disagreeable cuss—in short, good work, but he scares my kids. That shaved head and Satanic goatee? The yelling about the government? —Aaron Anstett$16.00 -
QuickviewTouch Me by Joseph Cooper
PoetryTouch Me is a stark and stunning inquest. Joseph Cooper offers a rich and penetrating view of a shattering love. Among lightning shapes of spaces, gentle word ways force wide this love exposing terrible wisdom through dialogic violence. Play the game. —Jane Werle$16.00 -
QuickviewTOUGH SKIN by Sarah Eaton
PoetryA mash of elevated, classic sentence structure and roiling, discomfiting scenarios/vocab. These lines kick and punch against their form. What a fight! But within, you will find many attractive and apt aphorisms. —Stacey Levine$16.00 -
QuickviewTRACK THIS: A Book of Relationship by Stephen Bett
PoetryI like these poems. Will be a great book of beauties. Very sweet and clear! —Michael Rothenberg$16.00 -
QuickviewTrailers by Michael Basinski
PoetryWith Trailers, Michael Basinski engages in a Joycean celebration offloOwering. As he 'gave up and just repeated again and again singing softly, deeply with his eyes closed', the language bloomed past the letters, numerals, wingdings, webs and crickets into a dream language of the 'noise for active space.' — derek beaulieu$16.00 -
QuickviewTranscendence by Charles Rammelkamp
New Releases, PoetryThere are good trips and bad trips. And then there is Transcendence. In poem-narratives, Charles Rammelkamp explores the psychedelic movement in America through the voices of those transformed by —Jack Skelley$18.00 -
QuickviewTranscendental Telemarketer by Beth Copeland
PoetryCopeland’s Transcendental Telemarketer contains beautiful lyrics of emotion and meditation, but it also contains rants against war and violence, and all the while it swings us from the U.S. to Japan to Afghanistan, from Islam to Buddhism to Christianity It’s compelling, playful, and well-crafted. —William Allegrezza$16.00 -
Quickviewtranslanations one by William R. Howe
PoetryDickinson said that it's poetry if you feel as though the top of your head were taken off. But what if it’s the whole head, down to the shoulders? (Insert Goya image of Saturn and child here.) Howe’s “translanations” are in one sense disfigurations—horrendous manglings that shock not just because of their audacity in taking such liberties with their source texts, but because of the glistening viscera they expose. —K. Silem Mohammad$16.00 -
QuickviewTransversales by Michael Gessner
PoetryThe poems in Michael Gessner’s new collection, Transversales, are formally dazzling—incisive, witty, and smart—but compassion tempers linguistic brilliance. In a series set in Paris, for instance, a visit (against advice) to the “labyrinth of tented markets,” the now-dangerous Market of Seine-Saint-Denis, is punctuated dramatically by fragmented quotations from Victor Hugo’s diary kept during the siege of Paris (1871). Quite simply, I am hooked on this book. Gessner’s poems are glory. —Cynthia Hogue$16.00 -
QuickviewTrust Me and other Fictions by Chuck Richardson
FictionZiggy Fumar, author of The Electroempathy Specrtometer, considering what Trust Me does: "It gradually reverse-metastasizes via reverse-engineering the malignant psyche into a benign, Alienist attitudinal perspective—that of an egoless schizoid biological psychogeograph whose content seems the effect of form. But whose form, exactly? Think about it. If your thoughts seem the effects of their form, what kind of be-ing are you? What does Mind belong to?"$16.00 -
QuickviewTruth Game by Tom Clark
Poetry, Superstars"Very exciting... The poems have the 'now' sound of current experience; they enable one to see a little further into life as it's presently being lived." -- John Ashbery$16.00 -
QuickviewTwo Books on the Gas by Jared Schickling
PoetrySchickling’s materiel-driven poetics mashes up a pre-ethicalized consciousness of the raw human reach for Life with the divination-pose of Fuel Speculation’s futurity e pluribus Unum. The “rational” to “irrational” spectrum of our present’s “present”, betrays an unspoken truth: the Republic of Fuel has, in fact, no sensate feel for time—at all. —Rodrigo Toscano$16.00 -
QuickviewTwo Dreams of the Afterlife by Kelly Bancroft
PoetryThe poems in Kelly Bancroft’s Two Dreams of the Afterlife are wild and beautiful as they create worlds from the ordinary made strange, and from the strange made predictable. The materials are everyday objects and events, especially our unavoidable deep connection to figures of popular culture (the Six Million Dollar Man, Wonder Woman, Hal the computer, and John Boy Walton). —Maggie Anderson$16.00 -
QuickviewÜbermütter’s Death Dance by Laura Hinton
Poetry"There is no way to make sense of a senseless death, but in Übermütter's Death Dance, Laura Hinton engages the senses to stay alive and to find, if not meaning, then some sort of vital force in the midst of tragedy. Hinton’s heterogeneous yet unified collection combines the rhetoric of documentation and daily life with the lyricism of dreams, visions and ritual. The result is profound, moving and mercurial." —Joanna Fuhrma$16.00 -
QuickviewUn storia by Steve Timm
PoetrySteve Timm’s word spectrum is brave, unnerving, dazzling, commodious; with it he composes an elegantly minimalist poetics, humorously charted in one of the most satisfying TOCs I’ve read in a long time. Suggesting neo-Joycean abundance, it leads one instead to sculpted poems of unsparing leanness. —Joan Retallack$16.00