In Luz Bones, a collection of wild, intense, and fiercely-crafted sonnets and other poems, Myrna Stone takes us on a journey through time and the psyche, that is both novelistic and deeply lyrical. Th
Ill Angels explores the cul-de-sacs and jubilees of early midlife. In poems that are at once formally assured and daringly inventive, Dante Di Stefano invokes the lives of artists, musicians, and writ
Patricia Horvath's transformation from a visibly disabled young woman to someone who, abruptly, "passes" for able-bodied, reveals cultural and personal tensions surrounding disability and creates an a
Aaron Poochigian’s Mr. Either/Or is an ingenious debut, a verse novel melding American mythology, noir thriller, and classical epic into gritty rhythms, foreboding overtones, and groovy jams surroundi
D. M. Spitzer's collection unfolds a poetic engagement with the Greek Odysseywithin the framework of the ancient epic: twenty-four books and a well-known and complex narrative architecture. The poems
In the mode of J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, In the Cemetery of the Orange Trees engages poetic language, mythic themes, and childlike perspectives t
Serious and witty, mystical and dark, these short stories by Meg Pokrass are small windows into another world, a world that is almost this world. But not quite. In her masterful pieces, Pokrass leads
In unbidden moments, Donata Polo, wife of Marco Polo, turns to perceive a Venice accelerating from Mediterranean port to global hub. In peripatetic visits to market she reflects upon the erotics and
H. L. Hix's Rain Inscription gives vivid testimony to the paradox that human making is both lasting and fleeting. Its three sections (a sonnet-sequence Q&A with contemporary cultural studies, a renewa
The world of Wattle & daub is inhabited by mysterious and peculiar creatures. A woman who fears the living thing in her apartment walls. An office-based streaker with an axe to grind. Automatons that
Will Dowd takes us on a whimsical journey through one year of New England weather in this engaging collection of essays. As unpredictable as its subject, Areas of Fog combines wit and poetry with humo
Pointing the way to what Montaigne called unlearning how to be a slave, Human Directionalteaches us how to be free. With the deadly precision of the fey, it reveals the heartbreak and absurdity of our
What if music could bring about a revolution all on its own? What power might reside in such a potent work of art, and what hauntings, private or collective, would it have to evoke? A meditation on lo
