Poetry. Translated from the Hungarian by Agnes Walder. Exuberant and witty, poignant and severe, trenchant yet lighthearted, Lajos Walder's poems cut to the quick and stay with you. Reading them is li
Poetry. "In REPORTS FROM BABYLON AND BEYOND, David Schloss delivers a blistering 'report' on disaster and war. It is also an intimate look at people—journalists, civilians, soldiers, official
Poetry. "TANGLE is made of poems that ache and grieve, desire and remember, the space between words and the hand. They capture the body's grace and the tumor backlit on a screen. They are wak
Poetry. California Interest. Brennan "B Deep" DeFrisco's 2015 collection of poetry."Brennan "B Deep" DeFrisco is one of my favorite up-and- coming performa
Poetry. California Interest. Paul Corman-Roberts' 2015 collection of poetry."WE SHOOT TYPEWRITERS has it humor and its witticisms, but it's the wisdom found in the plainly stated and curiousl
Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Film Studies. Dan Shurley's 2015 collection of noir short stories."I just finished your book. I think it's elegant, deft, and often brillian
Poetry. California Interest. Women's Studies. Cassandra Dallett's 2015 collection of poetry."These poems speak of love, sex and relationships in the way they are actually lived, with all the
Poetry. With setting moons, talking tulips, and the peacefulness found in a horse's mane, the poems in Christian Schlegel's debut collection HONEST JAMES might be as difficult to describe as the layer
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. "Khaty Xiong writes a penumbra poetry. In POOR ANIMA, lyric and narrative intertwine to form a site where 'blacknesses trade s
Poetry. Winner of the 42 Miles Press Poetry Award. The poems in MOUTH are about the world of the mouth and its many satellites. Words, especially. And when you're lucky, another mouth. The poems addre
Poetry. Art. Women's Studies. FABULAS FEMINAE contains two dozen profiles of famous women in a collaborative book project created by Susan Bee and Johanna Drucker. These two distinguished artists have
Poetry. Art. In this lambent collaboration, visual artist Marina Adams echoes the spareness of Norma Cole's language with delicate lines that contour muscular negative spaces, sometimes stark and dens
Poetry. Italian American Studies. "Imagine Jonathan Swift with an Italian American sensibility—that's George Guida, a true original with the capacity to be hilarious, surreal and rueful, sometime
Poetry. This unique collection of love poems from the heart and soul of Thomas Crowe that were written to various lovers over a forty year span of the author's adult life is reflective of not only his
Poetry. Winner of the 2014 Cider Press Review Editors' Prize."In FIELD WORK, Sarah Estes accomplishes that remarkable trick the best poets have mastered: to fully embody and give voice to the
Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Wandering from Detroit to Haifa, Tripoli to Brooklyn, the poems of FOUR CITIES reveal the underbelly of cities, bearing witness to narratives of love, occupation and fa
Poetry. San Francisco poet, literary critic, educator, librarian, blogger and longtime resident Robin Tremblay- McGaw presents a carefully crafted selection of poems which "discovers a contra
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Translated from the Bengali by Jyotirmoy Datta, Nazrul Islam Naz, Siddique M. Rahman, Purnima Ray, Dhamanjoy Saha, and the author. Bilingual Edition. &a
Poetry. LEAF IS ALL is meticulously inventive as it considers varieties of replication—benign and malign—and the intersections, the politics, of our communal narratives of family and science. A backgr
Poetry. The time: creeping toward the millennium, yet before Y2K panic inspires everyone to stockpile bottled water and cheap wine. The place: a Midwestern metropolis with echoes of Chicago, Cleveland
Poetry. Reverent, reverberant, THE BELLFOUNDER is both augury and echo, uniting the medieval and the modern in a theological soundscape shaped by Dante'sDivine Comedy, the films of Tarkovsky, and the
Poetry. This newest collection from celebrated poet Eric Hoffman, comprised of forty discrete sections, is a powerful and stark rumination on human economy, public and private, personal and impersonal
Poetry. "Antigone enters. Pesticides, eco-cide, a guiding conversation with Leslie Scalapino and the beloved dead. The drone poem and the brain-body of the dancer. Brenda Iijima gets at the h
Poetry. SHIPBREAKING is a stunning book about being awake. Robin Beth Schaer spins her readers through the wires, storms, and electricity between us—with great precision of language and line. This is
Fiction. Decades after her son and his pregnant wife are kidnapped and killed during the Dirty War in Argentina, Beatriz is given a lead on the whereabouts of her grandson after a long and desperate s
Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Memoir. CLOSING THE BOOK: TRAVELS IN LIFE, LOSS, AND LITERATURE explores the intersection of literature and life in personal essays about traveling, teaching, reading, wri
Poetry. "By investigating the minutiae of life—the stuff that anchors us, a stone and its echo, paradoxes constructed by language—Ruth Danon investigates nothing short of Thanatos and Eros. T
Poetry. "Open [ THE DOOR ] to stanzas of dream and enchantment, to chambers of magnetic fields, to the mezzanine of spellbinding diction, to the balcony of this passion play. And 'how do I wi
Poetry. Fiction. Drama. Women's Studies. "I can't remember the last time I read something so familiar and unsettling—like meeting someone you love after they come back from a long journey wea
Poetry. From childhood to elegies and curmudgeonly rants, the poems in PERMANENT RECORD seek to explore what has remained memorable in Mark Vinz's life. As Roland Dille, former English professor and p
Poetry. "If Elizabeth Bishop's Man- Moth, the city's subterranean searcher, moved to the Midwest, he might shadow the speaker of David Ebenbach's poetry, walking the 'foreign lawn and foliage
Fiction. Karen Lee Boren, drawing on her midwestern roots, explores the complex relationship between language and intimacy, between the heritage we're born with and our chosen paths. Each character is
Poetry. Women's Studies. Translated from the Italian by Joan E. Borrelli. Bilingual Edition. Feminist, courtesan, playwright and a renowned virtuosa (soloist vocal performer) called to sing before Rom
Poetry. Art. Mail Art. These Illuminations were created between 2001 and 2015. They could be called Visual Poems or Visual Stories or Art or Totemic Screens, or something else entirely. To create them
Poetry. "Jenn Marie Nunes writes the body, but does not right it. Hers are not corrective gestures, but gestures that seek to trouble the very notion of 'correct.' In the performative AND/OR,
Fiction. Short Stories. In William Baer's TIMES SQUARE AND OTHER STORIES, there are everyday characters walking extraordinary paths for love; there are smart, skillful characters struggling to reconci
Poetry. "Luke McMullan is prising the nails out of the lyric and holding it ethically accountable for any passivity that might lurk in its corridors. This is a call to occupy, to resist the f
Poetry. GOING DOWN GRAND, the first full length anthology of Grand Canyon poems, gathers the voices and thoughts of explorers, cowboys, river- runners, hikers, artists, geologists, rangers, and others
Fiction. Beate Sigriddaughter's writing is fearless and lovely all at once. Her new novel, AUDREY: A BOOK OF LOVE, examines our most precious, (and often all too fleeting), emotion in an honest, lyric
Poetry. Translated from the German by Stuart Friebert. "The poems in BE QUIET share with other good poems the capacity to penetrate and move readers, but I think they can do even more. I thin
