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QuickviewBLAME FAULT MOUNTAIN by Spencer Selby
PoetryThese texts exude a para-oulipean vibe of disinterested construction, yet possess an almost cinematic drive wherein plot twist and paranoia dance together wearing the tragicomic masks of ancient theater, but the masks are screens upon which dance the latency and explication of semiotics as romance. —Lanny Quarles$16.00 -
QuickviewBliss Inc. by Ron Burch
FictionIn a city that is a dream, or a frontier, or a dystopia, Nel Lowry is our pilgrim whose progress is a search for Bliss, which is a company and the promise of a lifetime position in a place that might have appeared in Kafka's Amerika. —Toby Olson$18.00 -
QuickviewBlood Will Tell by Craig Paulenich
PoetryThese are shrewd meditations on what remains in the cold shadow of the American rust belt. —Dorothy Barresi$16.00 -
QuickviewBoombox Serenade by Joey Nicoletti
PoetryIn the title poem, the speaker lists the songs to be played at his funeral and the friends to whom they’re dedicated; the resulting poem, and the collection as a whole, is a catalog of love and human connection, a “playlist of gratitude.” —Juliana Gray$16.00 -
QuickviewBrains Scream at Night by Paul Sutton
Poetry"Paul Sutton has trudged through the fuggy fen of all that is English, wiped his boots on a sheaf of paper, bound it and titled it *Brains Scream at Night*." —Aaron Belz$16.00 -
QuickviewBrushes With by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetrySome facts: there is ""white residue"" on a windowsill. In a novel on the brink of being written, someone walks out the door then reappears on the edge of a lake. To ""recollect."" To ""glide."" To ""wake up."" In a work that is reminiscent of Jenny Boully's The Body -- a blankness accompanied by footnotes -- Darling's Brushes with performs a narrative of sexual betrayal and peculiar [excruciating] loss with a delicate and pressing hand. —Bhanu Kapil$16.00 -
QuickviewByron in Baghdad by Mike Smith
PoetryHow is it Shelley truly did believe that Byron's Don Juan would be the great poem of its time? How is it that satire and pastiche become the most durable monuments to our romance? to our romance of ourselves and of our aspirations? With Byron in Baghdad, Mike Smith has, against all the odds and against all the currents of our present depravity, written a work of beautiful renunciation. Chaste and chastening, these poems are pure. Their urgency will only increase over time. —Donald Revell$16.00 -
QuickviewBYSTANDER An Irreality by mIEKAL aND
FictionWhat would happen if words, disguised as characters Balboa Pettibone and She-singer, could hallucinate and time travel? mIEKAL aND, one of our most intrepid verbal explorers, takes us into the world of genre fiction and sets it spinning into an “irreality” as iridescent as myth clothed in neon language. —Maria Damon$16.00 -
QuickviewCALL THE CATASTROPHISTS by Krystal Languell
PoetryWhat then is a catastrophist? In the cosmography of this incredible first volume, she is a mobile force that screams: There is plenty to say, say it, say it! In the case where it is the critical reality of the daily life of a person, a thinking person, a person with a sex that is not one, with a class not a cache, who bumps against reality being easily bruised, and doing it again, and saying so. Krystal Languell reinscribes poetry to its rightful spot where we begin, and keep beginning, inside our catastrophe, where it lives. —Rachel Levitsky$16.00 -
Quickviewcamera obscura by erica lewis
Poetryerica lewis’s camera obscura is a stunning meditation on the relationship between things in the world and our perception of them. Beginning with a photograph “that made me think about how time and the constant mutability of everything is . . . the underlying story of all the stories we write,” her words show us – indeed literally see – how “the object exists outside us without our taking part in it”; how “to bring the picture into focus”; how “an image sparks another image” ... —Stephen Ratcliffe$16.00 -
QuickviewCanyonesque by Tom Clark
Poetry, Superstars[Clark] really flows and gambles and plays it loose. I like his guts... He's the raw gnawing end of the moon. — Charles Bukowski$16.00 -
QuickviewCaptain Poetry’s Sucker Punch: A Guide to the Homeric Punkhole, 1980–2012 by Kenneth Warren
Critical ThinkingCalled by Andrei Codrescu, “one of the few and great readers of American poetry,” Warren presents in this collection of more than one hundred essays an interactive history of poetic aspirations and punk protrusions. With a mytho-poetic, archetypal way of reading community, music, and poetry, Warren is a provocative exegete of humanity's typological inheritance.$20.00 -
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QuickviewCelluloid Salutations by Elizabeth Block
PoetryIt's all here: love, work, child. And the writing. Mainly the writing. It takes over all these other things and yet it is built out of all these things. This is how Elizabeth Block erases Elizabeth Block, as one poem claims. She does this automatically, animalistically, while wailing forward, gracefully and with improvisation. —Juliana Spahr$16.00 -
QuickviewChanging Tense: Thirty memento mori by Bruce Jackson
Critical Thinking, New ReleasesBruce Jackson has written thirty memorial essays about his many friends, ranging from famous philosophers like Michel Foucault, to stray dogs like Randolph Scott, with a host of poets in between.$24.00 -
QuickviewChant by Richard Henry
FictionSuccessful formal experiments, especially those relying on Oulipian restraints and combinatorics, might demand a certain degree of skill and patience, but so what? They remain “beyond aesthetic value,” as Raymond Queneau said – a mere demonstration of intellectual gymnastics. —Matt Short$16.00 -
QuickviewChaperons of a Lost Poet by John Vick
PoetryThis book by John Vick is fearless. —-Valerie Fox$16.00 -
QuickviewChe. by Peter Money
Fiction"epic"— Christian Peet (Tarpaulin Sky, Big American Trip)$16.00 -
QuickviewCheltenham by Adam Fieled
PoetryO this is fierce writing, dirty & sweaty, rain-drenched& squalid, caught out in the back seats of parked cars, all that mess of actual young lives – Adam Fieled’s poetry moves with & through all this, carefully recording and arranging, natural history notes of the actual ecosystem so many of us live or lived within, savage, implacable and there on its own terms. —Peter Philpott$16.00 -
QuickviewChimes by Adam Fieled
PoetryAt times so painful and lovely and fragile that Chimes made my mind's eyes weep. My body's eyes, however, refused to cry as they did not want to stop reading-- Chimes paradoxically is a page-turner even as the words compel you to linger on each page. Chimes is one of the most moving autobiographies I've read--actually, language's beauty makes it irrelevant whether this is fiction or non-fiction; its authenticity is felt to be true. —Eileen Tabios$16.00 -
QuickviewCircles Matter by Brian Lucas
PoetryA triple play. Brian Lucas— painter, poet, musician—eye, heart, mind. Written with a sense of unfolding mystery, his voice on the page is sure in its tone, the ongoing quest and questioning is awake with profound and restless detail. Out of the ballpark. I await more. — David Meltzer$16.00 -
QuickviewCIRCULAR DESCENT by Raymond L. Bianchi
PoetryAt the dangerous intersection of Liberty and Empire, Raymond Bianchi breaks the sound barrier. These “multi-colored sequences” are up to date heart-breaking cubistic international songs in “real time,” trafficking in corporate corruption and working people, desire and everyday life. This is wild and honest work. — PETER GIZZI$16.00 -
QuickviewCity Bird: Selected Poems (1991 – 2009) by Millie Niss Edited by Martha Deed
PoetryMillie Niss draws from so many different poetic influences and writes in so many different tones – wistful, sneaky, sincere, outraged, outrageous, sweet and funny and snide – that it makes me nearly dizzy. This is a wonderful, whimsical compendium of a mind on fire, devoted to poetry, mad for malarkey. In rants, e-mails, poetic forms, collaborations, school notebooks, mock epics, found text, imitations, concrete poetry and intercepted letters, Millie calls it like it is and we are so lucky for it! —Kazim Ali$18.00 -
QuickviewCLOUD / RIDGE by Stephen Ratcliffe
Poetry, SuperstarsStephen Ratcliffe is in his blue or green or yellow or mauve or brick-red or phthalocyanine period. That is, the serene repetitive seriousness of the shapes and colors of his work, like that of the late style of a great painter, who’s painting the same things, day after day, week after week, month after month, year by year (book by book) until what’s depicted, though absolutely precise and completely clear (located in space without exaggeration or attitude), modulates in color, picture by picture and day by day, until it disappears into its own blended shadings, becoming everything at once–and nothing. —Norman Fischer$22.00
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