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Sleeping with Sappho by Stephen Vincent
New Releases, PoetryStephen Vincent's "Sleeping with Sappho" is a fascinating investigation of how a writer envisions a way back into history and simultaneously contemporizes it. — Maxine Chernoff$18.00 -
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Small Crimes by Tom Carey
FictionSmall Crimes is a heartbreaking and beautiful valentine between historical moments. Mexico’s early twentieth century art world, its Hollywood moment, is sweetly subverted in Tom Carey’s twitching hands. Reading it I’m grateful for his insouciant homoeroticsm and popping dialogue because they make this novel more memory than simulacrum. Meaning it really feels true. —Eileen Myles$18.00 -
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SMEAR by Andrew Brenza
New Releases, PoetryRachel Blau Duplessis, author of Poetic Realism: Working with strong page-making skills in modes of visual and procedural poetry, Andrew Brenza’s serious work comments on the tearing up and uneasy reconfiguring of languages in our historical moment. He creatively transforms inaugural addresses of all U.S. Presidents: imploded, exploded, spun to whirlpool, in a “jagged maw” or “transforming into a broken vapor.”$16.00 -
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Smoke by Chuck Richardson
FictionChuck Richardson's Smoke probes human existence by pursuing truth and meaning in an unknowable, inexpressible universe, much like the author-ities. What makes Smoke fascinating is the imaginary catastrophe lurking behind it, which leaves us to invent and imagine the world anew. —Raymond Federman$16.00 -
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So It Seams by Chuck Richardson
FictionChuck Richardson is a necessary American writer: Kafka’s disturbed humor; postmodern esemplastic axes and paradoxes; Taoist humility of Hindu-Buddhist warfare mentality; Black Elk’s quest for his siblings; Castaneda’s sexual appeal; the grotesque Thomism of Flannery O’Connor; Marquez; Grace Paley; A.P.E.S. and quantum physics and a healthy dose of gastronomic preference; a nuclear-sonar-tech-turned-journalist-bracketing Buffalo and Greenpeace, the range of Chuck Richardson astounds me. —Jared Schickling
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So Long, Napoleon Solo by Patrick Chapman
FictionDublin, 1999. Jerome Williams is a man in denial. When his childhood friend Tom shoots himself dead, Jerome enters a world shaped by the spy games of their youth, as their secret identities re-emerge in unexpected ways. He encounters Tom’s pregnant girlfriend Ro, who might just carry out the death pact she had with her lover—but should Jerome even try to save her? And can he convince Clea, his new oldest friend, to leave her potentially dangerous partner?$18.00 -
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Soldatesque / Soldiering | Poetry by Anne Waldman, Art by Noah Saterstrom
Poetry, Superstars“Here on the home front Anne and Noah’s word-and-image frieze blossoms like an immensely considerate device improvised for those Gentle Reader hands remaining.” — Bill Berkson$20.00 -
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some deer left the yard moving day by Andrew K Peterson
Poetry"To: “quincify.” To: “decolonize.” Andy's Peterson's some deer is dedicated to “Naropa,” the university he attended for two years. There, he drew rancid, ebullient comics and amazed us all – his “blood company” – with stand-up, improvised accounts and physical examples of a contemporary hybrid poetics. ... The experiment is to stay alive. – Bhanu Kapil$16.00 -
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Some Odd Afternoon by Sally Ashton
Poetry“This is about what turns up,” writes Sally Ashton in Some Odd Afternoon . What turns up may be the “dangedy-dang twang” of a banjo, a laptop hiding under a hoop skirt, or a living room that becomes a forest of grandfathers, one “a log, another stone, one a river.” —Nils Peterson,$16.00 -
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Something to Exchange by Celia Gilbert
Poetry“I can't see with an angel's sight,” Celia Gilbert writes, but she can see with the clear vision of a poet who knows both love and loss and continues to make—to embrace—that costly exchange. These poems give us the natural world in stunning beauty and history in all its inconsolable grief. — Betsy Sholl$16.00 -
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Somewhere Over the Pachyderm Rainbow by Jennifer C. Wolfe
PoetryOnce again Jennifer C. Wolfe takes aim at American politics in her newest collection of poetry, from Buffalo’s BlazeVOX books. In them, Wolfe goes beyond the current political climate to explore the role of the media and pundit-ainers who “report” with seemingly unprecedented partisan bias, and do so shamelessly. She is critical, and she doesn’t pretend otherwise. Wolfe seeks out this dynamic, shining the light, by looking both at the actors and issues themselves, and how partisan politics often plays out in the media coverage of issues and current events. —Lynn Alexander -
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SongBu®st by Stephen Bett
New Releases, PoetryStephen Bett’s new book SongBu®st sounds like a ship-wrecked wit (“We are coast people”) riffing at the end of the world. Here you’ll find snippets of old American pop songs morphed into takes on gun carnage and quotes from tech bros, each separated from the other by an “infrathin delay.” —Rae Armantrout$18.00