Poetry. Media Studies. #! (pronounced "shebang") consists of poetic texts that are presented alongside the short computer programs that generated them. The poems, in new and existing forms, are inquir
Fiction. Ken, the publisher, here. I don't often laugh, cry, and spit food on my computer screen simultaneously, but this book made that happen. You'll meet Nick, a hapless pawn in the world of global
Poetry. REPEATER is a codebook. It is a poetic code programmed into a computer code.Using the ASCII 8-bit binary code for each letter of the alphabet as an acrostic, the poems of REPEATER encode an in
Poetry. HYPERLINKS OF ANXIETY is a post-digital and post-human literary oeuvre whose vortices are replete with the language of kabbalah, alchemy, holy writ and the nuances of digital technology and so
Poetry. Reflections on the individual and community flash in this urban web of buildings, technology and news bits, where the "city" looms and the inhabitants submit. Bits and pieces of Abu Ghraib, th
Literary Nonfiction. Poetics. Environmental Studies. OOPS! ENVIRONMENTAL POETICS proposes that the cause of global warming is desire. We already have the technology to arrest climate change. We have t
Poetry. "Imagine an ocean leaving its bed to hover above itself, where it should not be, to form a 'silhouette' visible against an 'afternoon.' The technology of displacement is deployed, in Andrew Pe
Poetry. "Personal, dark and really interesting poems, made in 'conceptual' framework--and there are words of others--turned into what happened to oneself. Very good ear here, and place, and descriptio
Fiction. A novel/"autofiction" about the complexities of being a woman, an artist, a mother, and a wife; a novel about persona and obsession and loyalty and repression; an exorcism.Told in four volume
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. In EVENING ORACLE, Brandon Shimoda encounters shadows, specters, and women—young and old, living and undead—and finds himself standing in a graveyard in the middle of a ri
Poetry. "Marjorie Keyishian doesn't write about anything special. Just wind and water, trees and sky, birds and fish, family and friends, day and night, life and death. Just what matters most
Poetry. "What happens when two brilliant and sensitive minds unfettered by conventional categories brave the inter-and intra-personal depths of humanity and engage one another—and all of us—i
Poetry. Jewish Studies. "With delicacy and a refined lyricism, THE MINSTREL'S SONG embarks upon ancient and modern themes like the meaning of language and poetry, the presence and absence of
Poetry. Jewish Studies. "With delicacy and a refined lyricism, THE MINSTREL'S SONG embarks upon ancient and modern themes like the meaning of language and poetry, the presence and absence of
Literary Nonfiction. Art Criticism. TEXTS ON (TEXTS ON) ART collects art historian Joseph Masheck's essays on the interplay of texts and art, texts and texts, and art and art into an imaginative volum
Poetry. In his second full-length collection, poet Christopher Goodrich explores the intricacies and intimacies of sex, marriage, and fatherhood. At times, funny and endearing, dark and devastating, h
Poetry. Like Neruda and Paz, Perse and Milosz, Christopher Merrill is both a writer and a diplomat, crisscrossing the globe as chronicler and courier. BOAT records a series of passages over a decade,
Poetry. "Victoria Anderson is a poet who searches for signs and portents, warnings and prophecies, harbingers and clues. The wry, deftly crafted poems in VORTICITY travel through time and across cultu
Literary Nonfiction. American History and Tourism. The selections discussed and reprinted here are drawn from travel books and commentaries on the Ottoman Empire written by Americans and published bet
Poetry. "THE MIDDLE is beautiful and powerful—Angela Hume's line breaks are beautiful and powerful—her pages are beautiful and powerful—and all that grace animates calm outrage, ghostlier awareness ('
Poetry. "One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and cliche-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 wri
Poetry. Joe Hall and Chad Hardy's THE CONTAINER STORE explores the construction, implementation, and erosion of economic and social authority, commodity, and corporeality. As both found and original l
Poetry. African American Studies. BLACK PECULIAR sketches out power dynamics and faulty assumptions in terms of race and history, media and culture, and sex and gender in highly original lines of vers
Poetry. Invokes a narrative and intimate distance through the imbalance of power between men and detectives and women and wives, leaving a risky proposition like an alphabet or the simple complexity o
Poetry. Native American Studies. Oscillating between alienation and wholeness, OTHER SUNS carves a path between light and darkness, grief and continuance. From the edges of violence and doubt to "ridi
Poetry. Alan Gilbert's much anticipated debut threads desire and loss, image and consumption, memory and hope through a dystopian landscape of war, ecological disaster, and the ruins of empire. As in
Skipper Worse is a penetrating portrait of emotions and passions in a small coastal town, where love and marriage struggle with pride and ambition. One of the most powerful and representative novels o
Poetry. LIKE VAPOR reminds us how poetry transcends the individual and the common place with poems that are narrative and lyrical. Friedler's imagery and music show her tenderness and compassion. She
Poetry. "There is an open doorway between organism and environment, between inhabitant and habitat, between body and nature. Vicki Graham stands at that threshold and speaks to us in a language of int
Poetry. "Allows observation, love, memory, confusion, and explanation to intermix and play"--Juliana Spahr. "Regions of cultural conflict and reconnection...the syntax that delves there is sincere and
Poetry. UNRAVEL addresses our universal experiences of time and place, and how those places shape who and what we are. UNRAVEL challenges our sometimes-complacent perceptions and justifies what we all
Poetry. Composed of poems, prose segments, and visual pieces, this remarkable first book is both formal and colloquial, fluid and hard-edge, with the diction riffing between Biblical and Dylanesque. A
Fiction. Etel Adnan's novel "PARIS, WHEN IT'S NAKED amazes our retinas, ears, lips, fingertips, and noses with sensing, talking, and envisioning the city of Baudelaire and Delacroix, Mallarme and Pica
Poetry. In TEXASES, his fifth collection of poems, John Poch offers readers a kaleidoscope through which to view his home state--its geography and people, its past and present. Here is a mix of forms
Fiction. Epistolary. Memoir. Disability Studies. THE BOOK OF SCAB is a lyrical, epistolary fiction/memoir written from the disabled artifact's perspective, unraveling the abjection of youth and its po
Poetry. Women's Studies. LONDON UNDERCURRENTS is a collaboration by two London-based female poets Joolz Sparkes and Hilaire. This poetry cycle gives a voice to women who often go unheard, or are self-
Poetry. "This book ripped me the hell open. I felt like these poems written with dirt, bones, blood, and rust were my own forgotten memories that came rushing back into my wound. Sometimes I was afrai
Poetry. Fiction. Drama. An anthology drawn from the feminist reading series of the same name, the I SCREAM SOCIAL anthology features poetry, prose, and drama by 45 visionary women writers that have be
Poetry. Women's Studies. Aja Moore's debut collection of poetry is awash in sincerity and the ways in which we simultaneously crave, doubt, avoid, and totally disparage it. HOTWHEEL, in turn, reveals
Literary Nonfiction. Translated from the German by James J. Conway. Where do we feel at home? What do our cities look like? How do we see? In 1908, architect and theorist August Endell set out to answ
