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QuickviewFinger ExOrcised by Joe Amato
Poetry$16.00Amato gives us irrepressible ruminations, flash narratives, verbal collages. At times they seem to be struggling to rise off the printed page into our simulated 3D, stereo, holograph world, but then they recoil from it with speedy wit and righteous indignation, in a weave of rhetorics designed to ward off the 21st century's demons. —Anselm Hollo -
QuickviewFire For Thought by Reed Bye
Poetry, SuperstarsReed Bye's meditations on meditation open out into lovely Hopkinsesque melodies. There's a clarity here spawned from questions about inside and outside, mind and body, and who we are as humans in our landscapes. —Lisa Jarnot$16.00 -
QuickviewFirst Baby Poems by Anne Waldman with Collages by George Schneeman
Poetry, SuperstarsWith her warm subtle fleshy FIRST BABY POEMS Waldman creates an infant power that did not exist before in her words. These poems are complex joyful bioalchemy. —Michael McClure$18.00 -
QuickviewFive Sequences For The Country At Night by Mike Perrow
PoetryMike Perrow’s highly-anticipated book of poems is rich in its evocations of landscape and skyscape. His meditative voice is inflected with southern accents that linger and resonate. —Forrest Gander$16.00 -
QuickviewFlay, a book of mu by Caty Sporleder
PoetryWith the visceral precision of an anatomical textbook, Caty Sporleder peels back “dead stringencies”—Sylvia Plath's term, from “Ariel”—of language, desire, and narrative expectation. —Dodie Bellamy$16.00 -
QuickviewFLUTES AND TOMATOES A MEMOIR WITH POEMS by Wade Stevenson
Poetry“Flutes and Tomatoes” by Wade Stevenson is a compelling story of survival, love and resilience in the face of loss. Filled with a crackling energy these poems describe self-discovery, worldly discovery, and the discovery of the mutability of time that shapes the world through the ever-distancing, ever expanding waves of disorder and randomness that are left behind after the death of a loved one.$16.00 -
QuickviewFLUX by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa
PoetryGive moving a chance! Perhaps part Acker, perhaps part Ono, FLUX features language agent Joritz-Nakagawa as she writes her way out of a self-torn, flower-torn, money-torn zone . . . —MICHAEL FARRELL$16.00 -
QuickviewFootnotes To Algebra Uncollected Poems 1995-2009 by Eileen Tabios
PoetryJack Kerouac wrote, “Vision is deception.” Eileen Tabios’ version goes like this: “Go forth and prettily miscalculate.” —Jeffrey Cyphers Wright$18.00 -
QuickviewFor Days by Adam Strauss
PoetryOf For Days Adam Strauss writes that these poems record “what happens when ongoingness, dailiness, is mixed with highly wrought/overdetermining elements, and hence the use (abuse?) of the pantoum, sonnets, and terza rima.” That’s a fair description, but what’s missing in that little modus operandi but present in the work itself is the music of alliteration, assonance and rhyme schemes falling apart under the pressure of faux pedestrianism. —Tyrone Williams$16.00 -
Quickviewfor Holding Silence by Nura Yingling
PoetryGirl, adolescent, lover, wife, teacher, and grandmother turn into one another everywhere in these marvelous narratives. “To have your back against the horizon where darkness meets / its opposite in glory or grief,” Yingling posits in “Triangulum,” “ is this earthly life.” Hers is a poetry of becoming and of being. “The woman who you could be,” she writes, “is.” — Lisa Russ Spaar$16.00 -
QuickviewFor Love by Jared Schickling
PoetryJared Schickling makes no bones about his intent. Cribbing the title of one of the more famous books of poetry in the late twentieth century, Robert Creeley’s For Love, Schickling reorients it with the subtitle, (the order of the echoes), and sets out to rewrite love in a context where the lover becomes “the grape of my obscene lip.” —Michael Boughn$20.00 -
QuickviewFor the Ordinary Artist Short Reviews, Occasional Pieces and More by Bill Berkson
Critical Thinking"Opinions are not literature" Gertrude Stein famously admonished Ernest Hemingway. It's a maxim that puts most art critics behind the Eight-Ball. Not Bill Berkson. His criticism doesn't just deliver an opinion, it embodies an experience, matching the texture and plasticity of visual forms with a vividness and suppleness of language that gives the reader something shapely and immediate to respond to thereby opening path ways in the mind to the image or object being evoked and judged. His subject is art; his essays and critical prose poems are uncommonly graceful literary artifacts. —Robert Storr$16.00 -
QuickviewFor To by Skip Fox
Poetry$18.00Spleen is a bulwark against pessismism , says Walter Benjamin in an essay on Baudelaire. Baudelaire was no pessimist. Neither is Fox. For To is catastrophe set in stone, the rock from which the language springs. Yet, as Benjamin goes further to suggest, [t]he devaluation of the world of things in allegory (Fox's prime land) is surpassed within the world of things itself by the commodity . — Stephen Ellis
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QuickviewFrame Narrative by Dennis Barone
PoetryFrame Narrative by Dennis Barone is an exquisite book whose poems spin out of a surreal universe into wisps of narrative and back again. Beautifully imagistic, these poems give voice to the unknown and unknowable. —Maria Mazziotti Gillan$16.00 -
QuickviewFrances the Mute / The Bright Continent (A Diptych) by Kristina Marie Darling
PoetryFrances the Mute / The Bright Continent is a love story shaped by the language of absence—and haunted by the absence of language. In Kristina Marie Darling’s hands, the “small ornaments” of the quotidian are invested with a radiant significance rustling beneath the surface of words. —Tony Trigilio$16.00 -
QuickviewFrom Delancey West by Brian Jackson
PoetryHere the lover, the vet, the tenement dweller, pedestrian and poet comingle in half-light, in phantasmagoria and lush musicality alive and singing the names of the gone world. Brian Jackson has taken the time to give us his first book, a loving book born of magic and gem-like attention. ~Peter Gizzi$16.00 -
QuickviewFrom the Lost Land (I-XII) by André Spears
PoetryBut André Spears does not clean up or apologize; in From the Lost Land (I–XII), he blows the genre out of its wine-dark sea. Equal parts Star Wars, On the Road, Deleuzean war machine, and surrealist delirium, this poem-ever-in-progress is literature on steroids, philosophy on acid. It is scandalous, funny, erudite, and endlessly generative. It is an epic without organs. — Miriam Nichols$16.00 -
QuickviewFuturing by Mike Sikkema
PoetryMichael Sikkema's Futuring rings as it arrives. With a careful eye for details, Sikkema takes it all in. From the violence of a television commercial to tender moments in a relationship, Sikkema recreates a world where "the concealed isn't." —Gina Myers$16.00 -
QuickviewGargantua by Jennie Cole
PoetryGARGANTUA is a poem to read and put aside to read again. an encounter with overlapping narratives at once broken and recurring. exuberant use of language enhances the stride of disrupted syntax with turns of humour, worry, mistake. addresses are to the second person and the first, incomplete or get mislaid, encourage amusement and breath-catch. humanity trapped in a cyber-vice, embedded in rich and confident qualm. this is a rare new book. —Allen Fisher$16.00 -
QuickviewGerald Locklin: A Critical Introduction
Critical ThinkingI am most happy to say that this book celebrates the poet Gerald Locklin. It is an homage to Gerald Locklin, a poet whose neck of the woods is the literary underground, which is the publishing stratum that has delivered Howl and The Maximus Poems and Ulysses and The Making of Americans and Flower Fist and Bestial Wail. Not a bad list. His is a forceful, absolutely clear and democratic voice that constantly reminds all of us in the realm of the poem that our poetry is all of us who make all of our poetry. —Michael Basinski$25.00 -
QuickviewGhost / Landscape by Kristina Marie Darling & John Gallaher
PoetryGHOST / LANDSCAPE reads like an intimate chat, except not the kind people have over tea. Maybe it's whiskey causing these emotional flare-ups ("They warned me about you"), these bouts of nostalgia ("You wake wondering where the antique chickens are"), these lamentations about lost love (count the number of missed phone calls throughout), these discomfiting confessions ("...I had always thought unhappiness would be easy"). The chemistry between these poets is electric; it lights up the page. —Diana Spechler$16.00 -
QuickviewGhosts of the Upper Floor: The Complete Dark Shadows (of My Childhood), Book 3 by Tony Trigilio
PoetryThere’s so much to admire in Tony Trigilio’s addictive new book (the third in his delicious Dark Shadows poetry soap opera): the obsessive vision, the light and dark of emotion, and the everyday world brushing eerily—sometimes hilariously—against the supernatural. —Aaron Smith$16.00 -
QuickviewGirl in Two Pieces by Elizabeth Hatmaker
PoetryElizabeth Hatmaker has a quiet way of crunching up our world. She excels in shaking out the dirty little corners of the mind, particularly the mind of misogynist history. In the person of Elizabeth Short, the so-called "Black Dahlia," she has found her heroine, the way Leonard Cohen found Joan of Arc--or perhaps how Raymond Queneau found Zazie in the metro--for in Girl we see Elizabeth Short refracted and perfected through multiple stylistic prisms and processes. —Dodie Bellamy$16.00
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