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Whatever Speaks on Behalf of Hashish by Anis Shivani
Poetry, Superstars“Both arresting and inventive, Anis Shivani’s new poems reveal a rich sense of wonder at this complex thing we call humanity. Smart, unflinching, and relevant—this book demands rereading.” — Ryan G. Van Cleave$16.00 -
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When I Said Goodbye By Didi Menendez
Poetry"Sexy, involved, intense, hilarious, hip, weird, intelligent, witchy wild in a way one thinks of female owls, maybe with embers of fire under their wings, such wide eyesight: This Is A Damn Good Book!" —ron androla$16.00 -
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Where a road had been by Matthew Shears
PoetryWriting in the dark, in the desert of the real, Matt Shears explores profound and necessary possibilities. Shears moves with extraordinary grace through critique and meditation. Few poets these days are writing poetry this brave. This is a wonderful book. This is a brilliant poet. —Joseph Lease
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Window On The City by Michael Ruby
Poetry“Unreal City,” intones Mr. Eliot in his “The Waste Land,” bracketed by “One must be so careful these days” and “Under the brown fog of a winter dawn…. ” Ruby writes “velocity,” athwart “toodle to tabasco” and “orange sunshine.” What’s cold and taut in Eliot—strained—is hot and loose in Window on the City. —Sam Truitt$16.00 -
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With One More Step Ahead by Goro Takano
FictionIn With One More Step Ahead Goro Takano has composed an amazing post-national post-apocalyptic encyclopedic philosophical trans-genre literary critical untranslated novel with poems about post-war Japan, African America, Hawai`i, film, Japanese literature, television news, dementia, paralysis, a sex cult, the atom bomb, gender, race, culture, the corporate state and much more. —Susan M. Schultz$22.00 -
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within sky by Marcia Arrieta
New Releases, PoetryThere is a great sense of serenity and peace in Marcia Arrieta’s poems, although we can feel, sense, and absorb the rough and disquieting textures of the world she offers. —Andrea Moorhead$18.00 -
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Women and Ghosts by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryWomen and Ghosts is a book for the brokenhearted: "Iced over with sadness," its speaker says (or doesn't), "I can no longer speak." In ghost text stricken from the record, she also says (or doesn't): "I wonder how someone else's life can seem so much my own." She means Desdemona's. Ophelia's. Juliet's. Cleopatra's. Lavinia's. But when I read these words, I think: not theirs, hers — I wonder how her life can seem so much my own. I love this book. I honor it. I cherish it. I lose myself in its tragedies, in the absences and silences of women's lives and I feel less desperate, less anxious, less alone. —Molly Gaudry$16.00 -
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Xo – A Tale For The New Atlantis by André Spears
PoetryWhen I first read Xo: A Tale for the New Atlantis, it just blew my socks off—Homer's cadence and epic sweep, hallucinatory Phil Dickian channelings, hysterically funny post-Pynchonesque deconstructions of American materialism ... —J.P. Harpignies$16.00 -
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Yet to Come by Cris Mazza
FictionDecades before #metoo, Cal chose his punishment for going too far with a girl he was crazy about: a life-sentence with a woman he could not love, whose frequent rages, untapped spending and ruthless children were his means to distract himself from longing and regret. The girl from his past also condemned him to periodic postcards bearing no return address. Rather than increasing his despair, the postcards helped stoke the imaginary life he maintained with her, including dialogue about his plight, images of her showing up while he plays his sax in a nightclub, and even sex, the very realm that had initiated her retreat from him.$18.00 -
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Your Wilderness & Mine by David Highsmith
PoetryDavid Highsmith is the proprietor of Books & Bookshelves in San Francisco.$16.00