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QuickviewDelaware Memoranda by Richard Owens
PoetryDelaware Memoranda is a lush crosscurrent marked by history's flicker and memory's flame. In these buoyant illuminations, language's intricate shadows and solids reveal and carve at transformations in etymology to create a dialogic swerve that is the person, that is the conversation, that can neither be nor step in the same river twice. This book is tougher than any blurb. —Kyle Schlesinger$16.00 -
QuickviewDeparted Quantities: (A) Quantum Epic by John Dolis
PoetryIn Departed Quantities: (A) Quantum Epic, John Dolis leads us by candlelight down into the rough basement of language, where a “painter in the painting paints / a painting of a painting in the dark.” Dolis’s richly allusive, multivocal language for vision collapses the distance between self and other “such that human being might be more / than we deserve, though infinitely less / than we can dream.” —Tony Trigilio$16.00 -
QuickviewDerrida’s In/Voice by Chris Tysh
PoetryThere is immense talent here — Chris Tysh just gets better and better. With multiple registers and citational energy, the archive is exploded and transformed: we find references to poetry, film, revolution, politics, and philosophy, all effortlessly braided and made dynamic as they speak to one another. With perfectly pitched music, and impeccable form, Derrida’s In/Voice discloses and complicates the knotted conversation between hard and soft power. It’s an awesome book. — Peter Gizzi$16.00 -
QuickviewDescent of the Dolls Part I by Jeffery Conway, Gillian McCain, and David Trinidad
Poetry, SuperstarsDante’s Inferno meets the 1967 movie Valley of the Dolls in this collaborative descent into a Hollywood camp classic. Over ten years in the writing, the first installment of this epic poetic conversation sees poets Jeffery Conway, Gillian McCain, and David Trinidad pair up with their respective Virgil-esque guides: Frank O’Hara, Sharon Tate, and Anne Sexton. Our three poets follow the film’s heroines—Anne, Neely, and Jennifer—backstage into the murky circles of Showbiz and PoBiz. Down, down, down they go. Anything can happen: Allen Ginsberg kicks a talented poet out of the show, Joan Crawford makes a drunken visitation, the heads of ambitious M.F.A. poetry students roll!$18.00 -
QuickviewDevil-Fictions by Lance Phillips
New Releases, PoetryLance Phillips is an exacting, brilliant, graceful poet. His Blakean vision of contraries (opening the self, seeing in an oppositional mode) and the sources of the human is nothing short of stunning ("What the sleep garners // Ghost in // Certain insignia:"). ...This is a stunning, necessary book. —Joseph Lease$18.00 -
QuickviewDie Die Dinosaur by Michael Sikkema
PoetryCandy and rust abound in Michael Sikkema's new collection of poems. Die Die Dinosaur is a series of short psychobilly stanzas that run from humorous to poignant and across the growth and decay of both the natural and man-made worlds. This book looks to the future and its possibilities even if that possibility is probably our own extinction. —Kenyataa JP Garcia$16.00 -
QuickviewDirected by Lilly Obscure by Dana Curtis
New Releases, PoetryThis book is full of visionary poetics, of poems which stare into various sorts of suns and films and pseudo-biographies; it is full of lenses, like scattered raindrops on windshields. But essentially it is a mad dance with imagination and fear and eros and error. —Bin Ramke,$18.00 -
QuickviewDisapparitions by Joseph Harrington
New Releases, PoetryJoseph Harrington is a maestro of hybrid form. His latest book, Disapparitions, collages politically urgent poetry and prose with an array of sampled and remixed voices that speak from the ghost-margins of our historical moment. —Tony Trigilio$18.00 -
QuickviewDisappearing Address by Simone Muench and Philip Jenks
Poetry$16.00here’s wit here — “Dear Nothing” begins “why’d you have to cut out & make everything come back,” “Dear Obtuse” begins “Be straight with me” — but the best of the poems revel in novel images and a diction for which the only possible term is “hothouse gorgeous.” —Robert Archambeau
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QuickviewDisparate Magnets by Nico Vassilakis
PoetryDisparate Magnets presents the scintillating variables of time and its complex philosophical relationship with experiential space. Your guide is the inimitable Nico Vassilakis who cajoles, beckons and posits. The coordinates are pulsations of music, staccato intensities—syntax is unraveled in each set. Morton Feldman floats through this work as the simultaneities build. I feel the glee of ontological recognition reading his book. —Brenda Iijima$16.00 -
QuickviewDisparity by Steven Timm
Mobilis in MobiliThis book is part of our moblis in mobli series, a free ebook with a printed books that is for sale from us as well as Amazon.com.$5.00 -
QuickviewDistance by Tom Clark
Poetry, Superstars"One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and cliché-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and about to go to sleep, is because there aren't a thousand Tom Clarks. If I were writing a prescription right now, you know, if I had my shiny thing here, a stethoscope around my neck, that's the prescription I'd write. Take one thousand Tom Clarks before going to bed.” —Edward Dorn$16.00 -
QuickviewDISTANTS by Gordon Hadfield
PoetryBefore a star signified a brilliant point in infinite expanse, it marked the boundary; it marked the cosmic wall. Galileo knocked that wall over with his eye. But as Gordon Hadfield acutely shows, the bricks from one wall knocked over are recollected, and put to use again, keeping out what isn't allowed in, and keeping in what isn't allowed out. The human world repeats the cosmic one. But no boundary fully holds. —Dan Beachy-Quick$16.00 -
QuickviewDoes the Moon Ever Shine in Heaven? by Chuck Richardson
FictionExperiencing the heart and mind of a suicided murderer, Does the Moon Ever Shine in Heaven? gives voice to a killer’s disturbing passage through the Bardo Plane . According to the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Bardo is the existential phase between death and re-birth where the soul confronts itself, trying to stave off its karmic pressure by confronting the active contents of its mind. Here, the narrator must go beyond the rage that would destroy him and everything else it can.$16.00 -
QuickviewDoggerel for the Masses: A Post-Scandal BlazeVOX Booke by Kent Johnson
Poetry, SuperstarsHelen Vendler recently referred (letting off not a little pent-up steam) to the “Mickey-Mouse-Ears avant-gardism of U.S. Conceptual Poetry.” Well, here’s a riposte to that, Dame Helen: Because Craig Dworkin’s Doggerel for the Masses (“by” Kent Johnson!) wears the golden helmet of Achilles, whose antennae listening-mechanisms shoot into the heavens beyond Pluto. Hold onto your Hats, Boys and Girls; it’s going to be a wild ride! —Kenneth Goldsmith$16.00 -
QuickviewDolphin Aria/Limited Hours: A Love Song by Luke McMullan
PoetryLuke McMullan is prising the nails out of the lyric and holding it ethically accountable for any passivity that might lurk in its corridors. This is a call to occupy, to resist the feasting and destruction. As 'we all dance the liberty frogmarch', he reprocesses the responsibilities of speculating and creating the spectacle of consumer lives. What stuns in this sequence is the performative quality of the work as it negotiates subtle moments of utterance and gesture. — John Kinsella$12.00 -
QuickviewDomestic Uncertainties by Leah Umansky
PoetryThe language slips, shifts, recalibrates and the world, shaken, is quietly remade, again and again before our eyes in this lovely, sorrowing and finally transformative book. Leah Umansky is to be congratulated for her sensitive, nuanced, consoling and deeply honest sojourn on the page. —Carole Maso$16.00 -
QuickviewDominus by Tiffany Troy
New Releases, PoetryDominus is as insistent on justice as it is baffled by its own hope, and its indomitable, distinctive voice has a power unlike that of any debut collection I’ve ever read, or of any book in recent memory. — TIMOTHY DONNELLY$18.00 -
QuickviewDown Stranger Roads by Roger Craik
PoetryNo one sounds like Roger Craik. His voice, a beguilingly cosmopolitan mix of British purebred and American mutt, is the well-stamped passport he shows at border crossings from Ashtabula to Auschwitz, from Kent State to Krakow, from Amsterdam to the far-flung outposts of the human heart. This poet is most at home when far from home, prowling the shrapneled boondocks and scrap yards of Cold War history. —George B. Bilger$16.00 -
QuickviewDrink by Laura Madeline Wiseman
PoetryI am reminded how poetry can save us, how, in the hands of such a talented writer as Wiseman, it can raise us from the depths to a cove of still water where, perhaps, who knows, the mermaids are. —Alice Friman$16.00 -
QuickviewDrink Me by Mary Kasimor
PoetryThese poems are full of “voices coming from small places / an acorn.” The result is a startling reorientation in which language and meaning are embodied and re-imbibed: “wholly is a word/you can get your mouth a/round.” These poems are a brilliant and necessary tonic. —Jonathan Minto$16.00 -
QuickviewDRIZZLE POCKET by Tim Roberts
Poetry$16.00There’s an hallucinatory freedom to this tour-de-force of sustained imagination. It’s full of a freshness, an airiness, and at the same time a relentlessness that speaks to Roberts’s careful blending of compassion and determination. This is a book with a social, spiritual, and philosophical plan, and yet they’re handled so subtly that we’re not really aware of them until we put the book down, changed. Tim Roberts is doing something brand-new here—and doing it extremely well. —COLE SWENSEN
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QuickviewE P I L O G U E by Craig Watson, edited by Ted Pearson
New Releases, PoetryEpilogue is a brilliant collection of Craig Watson’s late-stage poetry. As such, it signals neither harmony nor resolution, but intransigence, difficulty, and unresolved conflict. This dazzling, posthumous work admits the reader into a shimmering, luminous present. —Kit Robinson$18.00 -
QuickvieweaQ Oor by Andy Martrich
Poetry$16.00Martrich presents an elusive autobiographical postcard of metadata alongside thickly painted and obscured image-alphabet-code, simultaneously and beautifully quotidian, inherited, catalogued, queried, found, and personal. —Mel Nichols
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