Poetry. THE HYDROMANTIC HISTORIES is a meditation on both personal and cultural mythology. Humans have been fashioning mythos and spinning creation narratives—of various sorts—for thousands of years.
Poetry. "In our society, distinctive locales are being leveled. Drive across the country on an interstate, the distinction in landscape disappears into Burger Kings, Domino's and Walmarts. Vi
Poetry. The poems in SPAN OF THREAD range from the autobiographical to celebrations of people and outdoor work, black humor, metaphysical-spiritual poems, and they often sneak up on the reader with ou
Poetry. Translated from the French by Eric Gans. "For sheer reading pleasure and fidelity to its source, this entirely new translation of Baudelaire's magnum opus is matchless. With admirable
Poetry. "Heather Woods is a lightning rod; her poems abundant with the evanescent, sensual pleasures of God and spirit in this remarkable, transformative first collection. 'May all beings be
Poetry. In HEIRLOOM BULLDOG, animals seize their freedom and defend their homes. Pet-trade escapees thrive. Nile monitor lizards prowl public beaches and Burmese pythons feast on panthers in the Everg
Literary Nonfiction. "This beautiful prose collection strikes very deep notes. Rachel Hadas, known for her formal dexterity and intelligence, demonstrates here a remarkable fluency in moving
Fiction. Poetry. Ecopoetics. Amanda Ackerman's THE BOOK OF FERAL FLORA collapses distinctions between narrative, poetry, and prose. Grafting stories to stones and written poems to plant rewrites gener
Poetry. THE UNDERWORLD OF LESSER DEGREES by Daniel Y. Harris is a post-digital and post-human literary oeuvre whose vortices are replete with the language of kabbalah, alchemy, holy writ, and the nuan
Poetry. Women's Studies. In TENDER DATA Monica McClure breaks down and breaks into various identities, each of them hashtagged in the discourses of their time and place, whether macha or chiflada, cou
Fiction. A Jesuit priest caught between his love and his calling. A man-eating tiger deep in the Indian jungle. A professional photographer with a turbulent past. Can any of them—including the tiger—t
Fiction. "Am I inside the poem?" asks Monk, narrator of Nakell's new novel. Each and every gesture, every advance this questing Monk makes, involves itself in a grammar of growing aw
Poetry. Cover and interior art by Janet Hamrick."His engagement with the variable foot of William Carlos Williams gives a new spring and all to George Tysh's remarkable collection THE SLIP. F
Fiction. John M. Keller's mind-spinning, continent-spanning new novel takes off from a term coined by the word- intoxicated poet, Arthur Rimbaud. Its intimations of flying-carpet magic and pierrot lun
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Activism. Filipino Studies. "In poems and vignettes, Tony Robles has written the generational memory of San Francisco at the point where alie
Poetry. "There are no popular pontifications here. The word "alcoholism" is never mentioned, and there are no 12 steps to be heard of - although there is an entire poem list
Poetry. "In TJ Beitelman's poems, 'everything's a powder / keg,' where everyday occurrences explode into expressions of joy and heartache. AMERICANA begins with an examination of American ico
Fiction. "Appel presents a cast of characters worthy of his quirky title. Among them Red Ziggy, a restaurateur from a distant planet who opens Birmingham, Alabama's only Latvian eatery, and H
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. In the aftermath of her twenty-year-old Harvard undergraduate son's potentially devastating brain injury, Elise Rosenhaupt and her family find their orderly world turned u
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. In his first full-length collection, GRUEL, Bunkong Tuon documents the lives of Cambodian refugees and explores the poetic landscape of a Cambodian Amer
Poetry. Jan Owen writes of childhood and nature, of relationships, travel, art and science. Many poems in THE OFFHAND ANGEL shuttle between widely differing perspectives: the local and the exotic, the
Poetry. Young Adult. HUMBERT SUMMER is a book about the febrile matter of fantasy in its rawest form—alternately subversive, awkward, romantic, and unsettling. Written between the ages of sixteen and
Poetry. Music. When Thomas Hardy listens to Louis Armstrong, music reaches out to poetry across centuries and oceans. Here, a "dreamer at a loss" passes notes to a classmate, &qu
Poetry. Art. FROM THE AUTHOR'S PRIVATE COLLECTION is a kind of hymnal—a songbook of praise and confession to our culture's achingly contemporary aesthetics—the "[t]emporarily obtainable / eso
Poetry. SLINGSHOTS AND LOVE PLUMS, Wendy Videlock's third full- length collection, sometimes evokes the lightheartedness of THE DARK GNU AND OTHER POEMS previous to it, sometimes enchants with the fro
Fiction. SUR LA ROUTE is a novel in postcard-like vignettes—a series of brief, vivid, poetic episodes that trace the path of a disaffected American woman "on the road" in France and
Poetry. "In the opening poem of Ralph Pennel's debut collection, the speaker lists things he looks for in a poem: 'Clear blue light / A single voice, cold, in need of fire' and 'Everything I
Poetry. In PLAYTIME, William Fuller offers dispatches from a strange world. Through deadpan memoranda and dark parables, he addresses uncommon topics from witchcraft to vegetable life. Yet his focus o
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Fiction. Poetry. SELECTED TWEETS by Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin, dating from 2008 to 2014, as well as extras such as illustrations of each other's tweets, short stories, essays
Fiction. In this daring debut collection, Susan McCarty steers lives according to their bodies. Two young men in need of heart transplants compare and challenge their physical limitations. A woman ret
Literary Nonfiction. Italian American Studies. "In THE STORY OF MY PEOPLE, Mario Mignone gives eloquent testimony to the hopes, fears, struggles and ultimate triumph of his family's extraordi
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Juan J. Morales forthcoming book of poems, The Siren World, is a collection at once intensely personal and seemlessly universal. The poems delve into the wonders and hor
Fiction. THE BUTTERFLY first appeared in 1962 and drew on Rumaker's experiences as a patient in Rockland State Hospital and love affairs with Yoko Ono and Joyce Johnson. As Rumaker's protagonist puts
Poetry. Two points of reference may be useful for orienting readers to the sequence of short works that comprise Nick Hoff's first book of poetry: the poetry of Paul Celan and the cinematic long take—
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Buddhist Studies. Translation. This collection of essays, articles, and poems about Chinese and Japanese literature and culture cel
Poetry. "Not since Emily Dickinson, and William Bronk (Sherry Kearns' beloved friend and mentor) has a poet brought so much gnomic utterance and cognitive lyricism to the page. Through the gi
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Edited by Martha Collins, Kevin Prufer, and Martin Rock. "Catherine Breese Davis fills an important but unsung niche in the tradition of women's
Poetry. From summer's blonde height of swarming sunlight, through autumns gentle falling, and into the dark spell of winter of 2012, Emily Vogel both endured and reveled in the pregnancy which brought
Poetry. Martin McGovern's BAD FAME muses on the perplexities and certainties of the human condition, often in soaring eulogies and searing elegies: as in "The Circle of Late Afternoon&quo
Literary Nonfiction. FURTHER CONFESSIONS OF A SMALL PRESS RACKETEER is a continuation of the columns and essays that comprised Stuart's 2005 release,Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer. Again, equa
