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
Fiction. At times comic, tender, dark, compassionate, and arrestingly bizarre, Gary Barwin's latest fiction collection marvels at the strangeness, charm, and beauty that is contemporary life in the qu
Poetry. "Authorities say a man was stabbed to death, decapitated and partly cannibalized in what appears to be a random act of violence on board a bus that was en route to Winnipeg late Wedne
Poetry. "Wallen crafts a punk female poetics located in the weird slippery surface of tone. Compressed, smart and raucous, the poems shimmer as they turn language back on its strange self.&am
Poetry. Translation and translation studies. Poetry in translation is a trust exercise; reader must rely on translator to turn words into other words, while preserving the larger meaning of the origin
Poetry. Italian American Studies. "Joey Nicoletti's book, REVERSE GRAFFITI, is dotted with images from popular culture—Captain Marvel, Spider Man, the Yankees—and these images are part of the
Poetry. "Lewis Turco... appears to have combined the longevity of Utnapishtim with the energy and industry of Gilgamesh: once seized with inspiration, he wrote THE HERO ENKIDU at white heat i
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Poised between myth and time, Philip Brady's TO BANQUET WITH THE ETHIOPIANS: A MEMOIR OF LIFE BEFORE THE ALPHABET is a sprawling, genre-defying verse epic, an auda
Poetry. "From tenement to 'arm's breadth exit ramp' to hills and trees 'suitable for wandering,' Elizabeth Savage's IDYLLIAD traces a vital new territory (not property) for American poetry. S
Poetry. "SAPPHOPUNK is a vivid, visceral experiment in 'somatic abundance,' a hybrid text blurring prose, poetry, history, and theater. Set in a sensual, imaginary academy, hastain's text des
Fiction. Preface by Samuel R. Delany. "Deeply romantic (in the best sense) and darkly evocative, Czyz's lush style explores regions well beyond simple narrative, probing the constantly shifti
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Kate Colby's sixth book is a personal ars poetica that looks back on her previous work and asks what she meant to say, what she keeps meaning to, and how to mean more. In
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Poised between myth and time, Philip Brady's TO BANQUET WITH THE ETHIOPIANS: A MEMOIR OF LIFE BEFORE THE ALPHABET is a sprawling, genre-defying verse epic, an auda
Poetry. "Lisa Rogal's remarkable and strikingly original poems play with form and narrative, spinning the daily quotidian of thoughts, random connections and events into gold."—Brend
Poetry. This collection of seventy poems moves through the physical and metaphysical vastness of desert canyons toward the memory of the small New England farm where the author spent his childhood, fo
Poetry. "In her astute new book, Valerie Witte investigates correspondence as both an act of communication and the prospect of communion; her poems are suffused with the necessary haunting of
Fiction. "Imagine a world where the people in it are the sum total of the big box stores they shop at, the products they buy there and whose warped world view is shaped by the televisions the
Fiction. "AFTER THE GAZEBO is a wonder: complex, compelling, beautifully told. Jen Knox writes with a deceptively quiet fierceness that will sneak up behind you and grab you by the throat, cl
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. The second book from Atlanta poet James Sanders, author of GOODBYE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE (BlazeVox, 2008). These are poems unlike anything you've ever seen before—visual, performative, hilarious,
Poetry. "The color, grace, music and energy that fill these pages ought to harken us (again) to Medina's mastery, for a master-poet he is."—Bill Zavatsky
Poetry. The spirits hovering around his new collection "include Philip Whalen and Erik Satie, Thelonious Monk and James Madison—maybe they have something to do with the astringent buoyancy an
Fiction. Though Joe Wilkins's new collection of short fiction set under the big Montana sky may have all the trappings of a traditional Western—long shots of sage flats and blue mountains, late nights
Poetry. "Michael Lally's streetwise and tuneful Irish-American verse eternally rallies against that which is thin and terribly frightened in contemporary poetry."—Bob Callahan
Poetry. Film. Translated from the Russian by Philip Metres and Dimitri Psurtsev. "Tarkovsky now joins the ranks of Mandelstam, Akhmatova, and Brodksky. Philip Metres and Dimitri Psurtsev's tr
Poetry. Women's Studies. Concrete Poetry. "Combine Apollinaire with Pam Grier and you might come close to Montana Ray's ferocious debut, (GUNS & BUTTER). Each concrete poem is shaped
Poetry. "Almost Too Much both tactfully and relentlessly interrogates our human experience in these dehumanizing times. There's not a sliver of false hope in these pages, but reading them, we
Poetry. GOOD BEAST terrifies, its poems possess air-like clarity. They are vast and mostly invisible. Roberts turns away from narrative in search of the moment and the emotion, which he has the abilit
Poetry. From the opening poem, "…mumbling in the/attic 'roof' out there, mud beyond my head…", this revised and definitive 2nd edition of John M. Bennett's classic LA M AL confirms i
California Interest. Art. Music. CROSSED PATHS: DESPERATION SQUAD AND THE AGE OF FORTUITISM is an exploration and documentation of a slice of the underground art and music scene in the Pomona Valley o
Poetry. "Jill Koren's poems beautifully explore how we come to know our deeper selves and 'a blood-and-lust music [that] refuses to be contained.' The desire to hear these deeper rhythms lies
Poetry. Art. KRAZY is a book of visual poems in the international avant-grade "concrete poetry" tradition, with radical re- arrangements of black words and letters on white pages, ac
Poetry. Michael Ives' witty, powerful and challenging poems have been anthologized in numerous American journals and magazines. His work has the unmistakable quality of a true poet at work; Wavetable
Poetry. The Red Dress is a series of deliciously poised, witty, often amorous poems by Billie Chernicoff, a poet who has received the highest praise from her fellow-poets and readers alike."T
Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. From multidisciplinary artist and author Jacob Wren comes a small book of big ideas. Originally produced as a 'Boondoggle Book' limited edition specifically for the first
Poetry. Art. Latino/Latina Studies. Dedicated and addressed to the poet's grandfather, A CROWN FOR GUMECINDO is a heroic crown of sonnets that chronicles the first year of grief experienced due to the
Poetry. In her compelling debut poetry collection, shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award, Melissa Bull explores the familial, romantic, and sexual ties that bind lives to cities. RUE takes us thro
Literary Nonfiction. Biography. History. Never before have as many outrageous and out-sized characters appeared in one place at the same time. Words like rogues, rascals, rapscallions, reprobates and
Poetry. ALIEN ABDUCTION is Lewis Warsh's first full-length collection of poems since INSEPARABLE (2008). Warsh extends his exploration of the way fragments of thought and feeling and experience come t
Fiction. Rose Dubois and Julie O'Brien find themselves on the roof of a Montreal apartment building on a scorching summer's day, and from that moment on their fates are intertwined. Worldwide climate
