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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 -
QuickviewCloud of Witnesses by Linda Norton
Critical Thinking, New Releases, Poetry$22.00Like W. E. B. Du Bois finding solace in his library, Norton moves back and across “the color line,” sits with Shakespeare, Fanny Howe, James Joyce, Toni Morrison, etc., and they wince not, welcoming her into their esteemed company. —Tyrone Williams
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QuickviewColor Me White by Kevin Thurston, Illustrations by Mickey Harmon
PoetryColor Me White focuses on straight white males, and what is often called toxic masculinity—a topic only aggravated by the current political climate.$20.00 -
QuickviewCOMMA FORK / MOVING PARTS by Ted Greenwald
Poetry, SuperstarsThrilled to be writing this blurb because I love Ted Greenwald's poetry. It is extraordinary lifelike in its interlocking pattern and surprise. I mean like life, if life were a made thing, a homemade pinwheel blown askew and ridden to the front-stoop carnival where your friends work and you can talk about how your mouth feels when you fill pronouns from the dictionary. And how you don't need the dictionary. Rearrange. The world's so modular! Set free for a minute. — Cathy Wagner$18.00 -
QuickviewComplete Dark Shadows [of My Childhood] by Tony Trigilio
PoetryBarnabas Collins, kitsch vampire but source of poet Tony Trigilio’s childhood nightmares, rises from his casket in the first sentence of this intrepid fever chart of a poem. Trigilio manages to create a riveting two-fold narrative—personal and TV-screen ekphrastic—out of piecemeal sentences (one per episode) that honor the most unlikely of poetic subjects: a cheaply produced, blooper-ridden, gothic-horror soap opera. —David Trinidad$16.00 -
QuickviewCOMPOS(T) MENTIS by Aaron Apps
PoetryKnuckles digging in the knee and not knowing it, while reading! To be disturbed and to be reminded of something you never quite knew. To be reminded and made to know that memory a new way, this is the way Aaron Apps gives it. Morphine drip as the scalpel tears open the new machine. —CA Conrad$16.00 -
QuickviewCompulsive Words by Michael Ruby
PoetryReading the poems in Compulsive Words is like taking a hard drug. —Aaron Kiely$16.00 -
QuickviewContinental Drifts by Cheryl Pallant
PoetryContinental Drifts is Pallant’s most unwieldy, sprawling, cosmic, and best book yet. It is far more tightly woven than Uncommon Grammar Cloth, and stiller than Into Stillness. What really separates this book, though, is how engaged it is (though tacitly and subtly) with the current historical/ecological moment. Basically it continues Pallant’s signature hermetic style but, just under a language that sparks with reference, resides a deeply cutting commentary on postmodern human existence in the world.$16.00 -
QuickviewContingencies of the Bourgeoisie by Grant Matthew Jenkins
New Releases, PoetryGrant Jenkins’s Contingencies of the Bourgeoisie active as a lone imaginative probity. Within its pages, poetic medicinal ranges transpire. This script unseals itself as a form of slow motion burning alive with insistent tenacity not unlike a gem of wildfires that illuminate themselves as suns within a percussive proto-season. —Will Alexander$20.00 -
QuickviewCounting Sheep Till Doomsday by Carlo Matos
PoetryCarlo Matos offers us original, honest, highly charged poetry with mature, hard-won insights and a gift for language. I recommend Counting Sheep Till Doomsday to anyone interested in modern poetry. —Simon Perchik$16.00 -
QuickviewCracked Altimeter by Joe Milford
PoetryHere are multitudes. In Joe Milford’s hell-bent Cracked Altimeter, “All the names of Heaven/become a universal phonetic.” I’m grateful for his effusiveness; these hexed poems dispense grace enough to make even the warped and wayward begin to see again, and to believe. —Steve Langan$16.00 -
QuickviewCruelty by Jefferson Hansen
FictionIn Jefferson Hansen’s collection of short stories, Cruelty, his assorted strange and confused characters are much like the people who pass through my life any day, only with a more pronounced and interesting strangeness. —Mary Kasimor$16.00 -
QuickviewCrying Shame by Jeffrey Morgan
PoetryMorgan’s gaze is always up-tunnel, if you know what I mean; the power’s in Morgan’s ability to look and look and look. No one—neither rescuer nor castaway, not commuter, not gentle or base reader—walks away whole from Crying Shame. —C. S. Giscombe$16.00 -
QuickviewCUNTIONARY/ Repent at Your Leisure (or The Folklore of Hell) by Benjamin L. Perez
PoetryFrom its title onward, Ben Perez’s fast, fresh fore(word)play aims to say “what oft was thought but ne’er so [politically uncorrectly] expressed.” This book is bound to ruffle some feathers—not for the faint of heart, denizens of “official verse culture” are hereby advised to enter at your own risk. — Stephen Ratcliffe$16.00 -
QuickviewDangerous Things to Please a Girl by Travis Cebula
PoetryA man wanders through Paris. A man wanders through Eliot. Eliot wanders through Paris. Paris wanders through the man. And, not surprisingly, it all comes out as a love letter. Though addressed to a missing person, these poems have no absence about them at all. Instead, built of the fine detail of daily life, they exude a vivid presence that coalesces into a richly nuanced sense of place, of place-as-lived. And it’s a good life. And an utterly delightful book. —Cole Swensen$16.00 -
QuickviewDATA by Seth Abramson
Poetry, SuperstarsBROWN-EYED POLISH 5’8.602” MASSHOLE FLATFOOTED HAIRY SKIN-TAGGED RUSSIAN 227 POUNDS BADGER FAN DARTMOUTH ’98 BROWN-HAIRED NEAR-SIGHTED JEWISH DANIEL BOOK REVIEWER AGNOSTIC LITHUANIAN ATTORNEY DEMOCRAT GAG REFLEX BEARDED CUP-EARRED COWLICK BALDING FACIAL DEFORMITY PALE 5.6” LONG BARITONE POET BULB-NOSED CIRCUMCISED SLOPE-SHOULDERED IOWA WRITERS WORKSHOP ’09$16.00 -
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QuickviewDay by Kent Johnson
SuperstarsIf the 836-pp. Day established Kenny Goldsmith as without a doubt the leading conceptual poet of his time, the 836-pp. Day by Kent Johnson may well be remembered for nudging the politics of Conceptual Poetry out of blithely affirmative, institutional framings, and into truly negational, critical spaces. —Juliana Spahr$30.00 -
QuickviewDead Letters by Alan May
Poetry$16.00Part Seuss, part Stein, part Brothers (very) Grimm, Dead Letters arrives in a lively blaze of highly accomplished play marking Alan May's own arrival into the quirky exactitude of his peculiarly fine poetry. —Hank Lazer
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QuickviewDead Ringer by Charles Borkhuis
PoetryThere are no illusions in the world of Charles Borkhuis. This is life without eyelids, and what we see is too disquieting for our own good, yet we can't look away. It's like film noir, whose frisson is a bad dream. Borkhuis’ work, though, is the zero hour. —Burt Kimmelman$16.00 -
QuickviewDEAR BEAST LOVELINESS by Timothy J. Myers
PoetryThese meditations on the blessed carcass move us from bed nest to city street, from cellular self to divine sensation. How do we humans recognize who we are in Vietnam, in Rwanda, on a back porch where rain softly falls? Through the body, says Myers, through the body. —Rebekah Bloyd$16.00 -
QuickviewDear Darwish by Morani Kornberg-Weiss
PoetryThe attempt at any kind of dialogue in a world in which people try to protect themselves with silence or/and blasts of self-righteousness is in itself a painful task. With the possibilities of actual communication remote yet imperative, anaphora is a last-ditch tactic. Listen to me and I will be able to understand myself, declares Morani Kornberg-Weiss. —Karen Alkalay-Gut$16.00 -
QuickviewDear You: A Memoir with Poems by Wade Stevenson
PoetryI enjoyed reading DEAR YOU. I admire how the poems pop off the page with a stinging emotional power. HER BREATH IS NOT MINE is a great way to begin this book. —Geoffrey Gatza$16.00 -
Quickviewdeclivities by Irene Koronas
PoetrySiphoning from a trajectory of experimental literature and poetics from Dadaism to Algorithmics and beyond, the Koronas grammaton is fashioned from a panerotism reconciling the disequilibrium encoded within the hyperlinks of a retromanic pleroma and a feminine clinamen. By excavating the figurations of Rimbaud, Dickinson, de Sade, Bataille and many au courant experimentalists, declivities relegates identity and gender to funerary antiques in a reliquary. —Daniel Y. Harris$16.00 -
QuickviewDeco by J.J. Colagrande
FictionDecò begins his journey in South Beach. He's a writer armed with "multiple graduate degrees" living a glorified condo-life off of "$400,000 in student loan debt." Life is great with his "super-hot model girlfriend" until the real estate market crashes and he quickly loses it all. Forced to move to the art haven of Wynwood, Decò seeks the success he has always felt he was owed.$16.00
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