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QuickviewThe Empress of Frozen Custard & Ninety-Nine Other Poems by Jorge Guitart
PoetryJorge Guitart’s poetry is not for the masses but it is for everyone. The Empress of Frozen Custard is awash in marvels. Guitart is a master of language, a tongue trickster, a feller of fashion. In this, his second volume of English poetry, he has done it again, producing a collection that sings and laughs and cries all at once. In the words of Yankee fans praising one of their most beloved players, “Hip, hip, Jor-gé!” —Pablo Medina$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Epic of Hell Freeze by Richard K. Ostrander
PoetryThe poems in Richard K. Ostrander's The Epic of Hell Freeze (What Stays the News) shift from allusion (Andromeda, Abraham, Sisyphus) to illusion: ""He walks through walls/ On the other side of silver."" Ostrander's attention to ""language's legerdemain"" ties seemingly unrelated poems to each other like knotted scarves pulled from a magician's sleeve, using alliteration—""And a single sentence,/ Tautness of telephone lines""—as well as slant rhyme—""Flies, happy in their bottles/ Freer than fish/ that fly/ Melody or malady/ I don't know which""—and clichés twisted into new configurations—""There's a sty in the sky,/ Here's a shoulder to fry on."" —Beth Copeland$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Equation That Explains Everything by Andrew Cox
PoetryPoets usually either rhapsodize the world or explain it. In The Equation that Explains Everything, Andy Cox shows us that he is an explainer, but he explains through a wondrous broken logic where blind men drive under the influence of dogs, rubber snakes entice the world with plastic apples, and two plus two equals five but all the tiny sighs in the hours before quitting time add up to nothing. —Richard Newman$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Exploding Nothingness of Never Define by Anne Tardos
Poetry, SuperstarsAnne Tardos, whose poetry & performances have delighted us for several decades now, emerges in her new book as the innovator of a work that incorporates, like the best of our poetry, a full range of thoughts & experiences & makes them stick in mind & memory. —Jerome Rothenberg$22.00 -
QuickviewThe History of My World Tonight by Daniel Nester
PoetryIn The History of My World Tonight, Daniel Nester re-envisions The Beach Boys, The Brady Bunch, and the Bible. He takes on the Munchkins, Montale, Monet, and masturbation. But that’s just the beginning. In these intimate confessional and experimental poems, Nester delivers a complex psyche along with deadpan social commentary. This is an engagingly funny and tender book. —Denise Duhamel$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Hole in the Den by Michael Martrich
FictionWhen Tory Spry’s hallucinations become more frequent - what start out as a “pinpoint,” extend into an “arc,” and eventually become the blunted but flashing “Fingerprint” - he reluctantly but necessarily retreats inward into the well of himself. Swimming through the blackholed remnants of his outside world - high school, church, diners, home, in the car with his friends - Spry can only find comfort in sleep, the cold, the woods, and in his best friend John, who has a deep internal secret himself. And within our haunting and untouchable loneliness, we are separate but not alone.$18.00 -
QuickviewThe Homesick Mortician by Peter Mladinic
New Releases, PoetryMladinic gives us a world where “a man with a wooden leg/ and a boy in a white shirt/ talk weather/ and look like an argument.” The strange and the mundane combine into sharp mystery. This is exquisite poetry and worthy of your time. —Jeff Weddle$18.00 -
QuickviewThe Hunger in Our Eyes by Jared Demick
PoetryJared Demick's The Hunger in Our Eyes is a little bit country and a whole lot of cross-country(ies). The shape-shifting Americana here scores a playfully re-visionist choreography that brings into focus what imperial eyes typically miss: the accidents of landscape, the histories of food, the body's crossings. —Urayoán Noel$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Ida Pingala by Debrah Morkun
PoetryDebrah Morkun's words compose dynamic fields. Her efforts push poetry onto the page to energize language by reaching toward its limits. Between the ""janus-lipped morning"" and ""miserable neighborhoods"" a resistance forms according to what can be said and what actually gets said. Morkun confronts opposing forms and possibilities (like the ida and pingala of the title). Here poetry is electrified by the tensions of sound and meaning. ~ Hoa Nguyen$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Impossible Picnic by Mark Tursi
PoetryMark Tursi’s Impossible Picnic sets up camp not on grassy Romantic heights but on the astroturf of our mental backyards and interiors. In its wild juxtapositions and deadpan humor, one hears unsettling echoes emanating from the “vapory camaraderie” of modernism. Here “the world is all this, plus the world,” as the title propels us toward a super-abundance that only initially seems “impossible.” —Elizabeth Willis$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Jointure by Clayton Eshleman
Poetry, Superstars“What does it mean to see with the eyes of the soul?” In The Jointure, Clayton Eshleman offers an answer to this question in language of visionary symbolic consciousness. Intimate and expansive, psychological and anthropological data germinates this fecundating exploration and extrapolation of inner wilderness and the essence of imagination. In The Jointure, “memory is fracture” – the depths of horror enshroud the horror of depths – but imagination is revealed as the “keelson of paradise.” —Stuart Kendall$16.00 -
QuickviewThe Landfill Dancers by Mary Kasimor
PoetryIn this memorable collection, Mary Kasimor enacts an ""image drama"" and ""performance burlesque"" across every poetic line, surprising the reader with a new ""species of FORM."" Watch your step because The Landfill Dancers will take you where the wild is always open. —Craig Santos Perez$16.00
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