Poetry. "The most stimulating poet of his generation."—James Schuyler "He belongs on the summit of our American Parnassus."—Harry Mathews "One of the most memorable of contemporary poets."—The Washin
Poetry. "Someone walks around town, sees things and writes them down. He remembers what people say to him: 'The planes kept going / transporting a strange cargo, bodies packed in ice and oranges.' He
Poetry. The wit, power and elegance of Towle's poetry is brought together at last in one definitive volume. One of the clear, authentic voices of American poetry -- Kenneth Koch. Meditative, erudite,
Poetry. "These poems are gorgeous and ironic and heartbreaking and angry and uplifting and tough-minded and compassionate and completely amazing. NEW LIFE is a triumph. Art wins, war loses." —Tim O'Br
Poetry. Fourth Winner of the Loose Translation Prize, co-sponsored by Hanging Loose Press and Queens College. This book contains his own poems and translations of Anna Akhmatova.
Poetry. "Jack Anderson takes wing and lights everywhere... sheer delight, total pleasure."—David Kirby "easily one of the most compelling and unforgettable reads of 2017."—Patricia Traxler
Poetry. This book achieves "a consistency of vision and linguistic vigor I can only marvel at and applaud. Pawlak is among the very best poets working today."—Pablo Medina
Poetry. "A ferocious appetite for life underlies MAY ALL MY WOUNDS BE MORTAL. The humor and ache in these unforgettable poems are a matter of life and death."—Lloyd Schwartz
Fiction. Stories by Tankred Dorst with Ursula Ehler. Translated from the German by Anne Posten. "Despite its great importance and influence on German theater and letters, Dorst's work is still relativ
Poetry. This book "is full of haunting extended metaphors and a pervasive sense of the metaphysical found even in the most seemingly casual situations...."
Poetry. These poems are based on the extraordinary career and personal struggles of Pulitzer Prize-winning war reporter Paul Watson."Very powerful poems."—Andrew Motion
Poetry. Of her collection, FORBIDDEN WORDS: "Gorgeous writing and devastating…Patricia Traxler has done crucial work here: rigorous, faithful, tragic, hopeful, true."—Marie Howe
Poetry. "A large masterpiece consisting of small poems... keeps reverberating like a percussion player who still hears the beat."—Hal Sirowitz. "So very, and beautifully, human."—Katie Ford "Spar
Fiction. Sharon Mesmer's first fiction collection follows the 1998 publication of her first book of poems, Half Angel, Half Lunch, which Allan Ginsberg called beautifully bold and vivaciously modern.
Poetry. "This is a badass book of poems and you will suffer if you don't find your way into its pages."--Anselm Berrigan"It doesn't get any better."--Robert Creeley
Poetry. "The spirit of these poems, bracing, great-hearted and unafraid, gives me hope for the future." —Amy Gerstler "Enjoy POP VÉRITÉ, reader; there's no way not to." —David Kirby
Poetry. HOLD TIGHT is Jeni Olin's second full collection of poems, following her exciting debut, BLUE COLLAR HOLIDAY. Writing about that book, John Ashbery praised her "wonderfully caustic and vulnera
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Edited by Lisa Birman with an introduction by Bill Berkson and afterword by Anne Waldman. Frances LeFevre's reports on Bill Berkson's poetry class at the New School, sent
Literary Nonfiction. Translated from the French by Yves Henri Cloarec. Winner of the Third Annual Loose Translations Award, co-sponsored by Hanging Loose and Queens College-CUNY. In France, winner of
Poetry. Native American Studies. ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT RESCUE is the first collection by M.L. Smoker, whose work has garnered praise from Sherman Alexie and Jim Harrison. "M.L. Smoker's poems are to
Poetry. "You can sense the benign influence of such major New York School figures as Kenneth Koch and Paul Violi in Jamail's exclamatory poems...This book is worthy of its legacy."--David Lehman
Poetry. This "is my new favorite book of poems and should be everyone's. The poems are so brilliantly original they defy labels or comparisons. No one writes poetry like Winch." —Michael Lally
Poetry. "Pissed-off, stripped down, and deadly serious these poems spare no one."—Joan Larkin "Drop me off anywhere with Jiwon Choi—these wildly radiant poems of music & magic reel us in... this is a
Poetry. "This collection refuses to be pinned into a corner and has enough corazon to face taboo square in the eye. This is Einstein mixed with Wu-Tang-thought experiments gone wild, the if/then propo
Poetry. Chuck Wachtel's WHAT HAPPENS TO ME is revelatory, not only in its lyrical clarity and knowledge, but also in its experimental and elliptical compression in poetry and short prose --Yusef Komun
Poetry. THE ALCHEMIST'S DIARY is strong first collection featuring poems of family and Detroit's Arab-American community. Hayna Charara is a star -- follow him -- Naomi Shihab Nye. Sense and feeling..
Poetry. Asian American Studies. Gay and Lesbian Studies. "Headlong, harrowing, holy and at times even hilarious, Zack Linmark's poems give us the vibrant technicolor life of crossed time zones an
Poetry. "Mark Pawlak's poems document a literary journey charged with the sheer joy of words and often with fierce irony. He finds poetry in day-to-day common language, and makes his poems from s
Poetry. "BOY DRINKERS looks with sober eyes at the people, tragedies, and traditions that shaped any of us who grew up in a community where alcohol and God were equally able to bring us to our kn
Fiction. Merrill Gilfillan's short stories are natural extensions of his eloquent and lyrical accounts of Appalachia, the Great Plains, the Western mountains. Each character is given the same quiet re
Poetry. "I wish there were more poets like Wilma McDaniel. One wants to return to her book again and again. Little slices of real truth, to be long savored" -Pete Seeger.
Nonfiction. Music. In a voice that "delivers both respect and irreverence with convincing authority," Terence Winch gives us "a world--two worlds in fact--his parents' New York immigran
