“McMorris is a poet utterly devoted to the sensual beauty of language and he crafts lines dense and strong enough to bear the crashing forces of history and identity contained within them . . . his wo
Laird Hunt's debut follows the amusing but deadly debacles of its narrator, an anonymous secret operative embroiled in the dark underworld of transnational organized crime. When he botches an assignme
To her mother's delight, beautiful, high-stepping Yoruba of Harlem has been invited to participate in the cotillion that is thrown annually by the African American high society of Brooklyn. Caught bet
Brenda Coultas’s prose poems take us on a well-documented tour from the Bowery, pre-1900 and post-9/11, to southern Indiana, pre-automobile and post-genetic engineering. Her poems are sculptures piece
"Allusions to the story of Sylvia Plath and her husband, poet Ted Hughes, combine with details from the Gothic novel tradition and witty pop culture references to create a fascinating tapestry."—Utne"
“Gilbert Sorrentino has long been one of our most intelligent and daring writers. But he is also one of our funniest writers, given to Joycean flights of wordplay, punning, list-making, vulgarity and
Operatic in scope, ULULU (Clown Shrapnel) is a dramatic, genre-bending narrative and a lyrical cultural biography of the archetypal seductress Lulu. In a furious performance of text and imagery, Thali
“Elaine Equi’s narrow lines are like the rungs of a ladder that one ascends while one is descending them. It’s a motion like that in Wang Wei’s lines, ‘Stars / float up / toward dawn,’ which she quote
“Poems as cool as they are passionate, as soft-spoken as they are indignant, and as fiercely Romantic as they are formally contained. . . . An exquisite collection!”—Marjorie PerloffWith musical grace
“Shin’s poetry is a grand orchestration of the cacophonic events and voices in an immigrant woman’s life. Marked by a keen political consciousness, an imagination as wicked as it is generous, and an e
What does it mean to be a “fully processed” Indian in America today? In Night Train, Lise Erdrich offers a sharp-humored and powerful primer. Largely set in the small towns and reservations of northwe
A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by C.D. Wright.This visionary seventh collection by the PEN USA Award-winning poet pivots around uncertainties, mysteries, and the unexpected to find the langua
These spare and allegorical later poems of Romania’s great poet, Eugen Jebeleanu (1911–1991), are deeply moving expressions of collective and personal guilt from an artist whose early participation in
“Brilliant...Evenson manages to capture madness with a masterful tone. The specific genius of Fugue State rests in subtlety, in Evenson’s ability to maintain suspense, dread and paranoia through utter
In these two novellas and four shorter tales of love and healing gone awry, Mary Caponegro introduces caregivers and lovers, muses and skydivers, mothers and minors - all headed toward "ninety mile-a
Titled after a Jackson Pollock painting at once figural and abstract, this collection spans nearly fifty years of Bill Berkson’s poetry in all its deftness and variety. His poems, full of nuance, inte
“Reading Mathys, one remembers that poetry isn't a dalliance, but a way of sorting through life-or-death situations.”—Los Angeles TimesBeginning with the delivery of a diplomatic soccer ball to Henry
Living on a diet of cupcakes, sardines, and Southern Comfort during the economic hardships of the Nixon era, Andrew Whittaker - literary journal editor, negligent landlord, and aspiring novelist - wr
Soon after arriving in an old and extraordinary place, Harry discovers Solange, a heartbroken artist who performs as a silent, silver angel awash in Lucite tears. Haunted by his own mysterious traged
"Titled after a line from Henry James, The Abyss of Human Illusion consists of fifty narrative set pieces full of savage humor and cathartic passion - an elegiac paean to the grimly comic, unsentiment
