Poetry. "Gordon Osing's new book THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPENED is brilliant,soul-deep, questing, and fun. One thinks of Wordsworth's Preludedone with a great jazz beat, and then one thinks of all the goo
Poetry. "From the internet, I learn that 'complicated grief' designates a bereavement disorder in which, instead of fading with time, the pain of loss remains as acute as it was in the beginn
Poetry. "Reading Travis Cebula's engaging, dynamic new collection of poems DANGEROUS THINGS TO PLEASE A GIRL, I am reminded of Michelle Naka Pierce speaking of intimacy across vast distances,
Poetry. YES, THE DUCKS WERE REAL deals with relationships of all kinds, as well as, what goes into day- to-day survival—things that concern everyone and things everyone can relate to. In these poems L
Poetry. Influenced by American poetry, WHAT THINGS ARE encompasses the topology of paternity and love. Its lyrical clear voice directs us to areas of familiar territory where ideas of what once was an
Literary Nonfiction. Music. Poetry. Art. Derived in form from Aristotle's "Minor Work" of the same title, this variation of ON MARVELLOUS THINGS HEARD explores a range of literary appropriations of mu
Fiction. Women's Studies. Translated from the German by Adrian Nathan West. THE WEIGHT OF THINGS is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only translatable book by Austrian w
Poetry. Ben Fama's FANTASY operates in a world of Internet, glamor, and lonely 21st century adulthood, through various other sorts of intimacies that happen through global production. Fama's language
Fiction. Women's Studies. With more of her life behind her than ahead, Margaret Braverman, a physicist teaching at a small college, cannot help but regret the things she never quite got right. Most im
Poetry. "Laura Goldstein's poems vibrate with urgency—of bodies, of capital, of language, of all the things that comprise us."—Megan Kaminski"Dear Citizen: Our decision is t
In a godless, indifferent world, backlit by sunrises and sunsets, this post-confessional long poem copes with a lost relationship and the impermanence of things through a cascade of shifting cinematic
Poetry. Winner of the 2012 Cider Press Review Editors' Prize. "Few poets writing today manage to teach us the beauty of the simple things with such precise language and tender care for detail... as Su
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Douglas Kearney writes, "If my writing makes a mess of things, it's not to flee understanding, but to map (mis-)understanding as a verb.&am
Poetry. African American Studies. "A SWARM OF BEES IN HIGH COURT is, among other things, Tonya Foster's 'attempt to create biography of a place,' specifically Harlem in the 21st century, wher
Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Envisioned as a kind of mash-up of all things Hobart-related (website, print issues, book division, goofy ideas), Hobart Handbooks will publish 2-3 books/year, li
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. Art. Comics. "Sommer Browning sees things we don't see, even if they're right in front of us. That's what distinguishes the great thinkers of our time! They look at the stars and they
Poetry. Sometimes things happen. Memories store themselves in your head like stories written in a book. HEAT WASHES THROUGH is a collection of poems of recollections from a year of madness and lonelin
Photography. Japanese photographer Tomoko Daido takes black and white pictures of things she sees on her travels. ONE HUNDRED SHOTS includes 100 images from New York City, Cleveland, Buenos Aires, Jap
Poetry. LGBT Studies. Jewish Studies. "Within an absolutely concrete framework, the author of this book gives shape to those intangible things that exist in our daily lives. Following a fanta
Poetry. Drones, phone taps, NSA leaks, internet tracking—the headlines confirm it—we are living in a state of constant surveillance, and the idea of "the private sphere" is no longer what it used to b
Poetry. California Interest. Art. PAINTING (2.4.97 - 4.21.97) transcribes perceptions of 'real' things, demonstrate how the three- dimensional world might be 'registered' in lines running clear across
Poetry." It took almost a lifetime's worth of emotions to read Lauren Ireland's THE ARROW. She says Time eats at the edges of things so we hear her say other things, too, I am hating you from very far
Poetry. "It's all here: love, work, child. And the writing. Mainly the writing. It takes over all these other things and yet it is built out of all these things. This is how Elizabeth Block erases Eli
Poetry. "THE LONGEST TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF THE CENTURY continues Catherine Meng's experiments along the radiant edge of how-we-live-now. The book is, among many things, an examination of habit, the d
Poetry. "In his new collection, CONEY ISLAND PILGRIMS, John Hennessy does more than catalogue the things of this world; he sanctifies them: bruised strawberries, Kangols, an unleashed pit bull, Puccin
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Asian American Studies. DIZZY SUSHI is many things at once—a young woman's travels in Japan, a pilgrimage to a source of Zen, an inner journey, a love story, and a search
Poetry. Winner of the 2011 Cider Press Review Book Award, selected by Jeanne Marie Beaumont. Beaumont writes, "Somewhat indescribable, as original things often are, the poems of Joseph Fasano feel hun
Fiction. In the drought-ridden mining town of Cuzzert, West Virginia—population 335—the only things that seem to change are the price of cigarettes and the roll call at the prison. Time has dried up l
Poetry. THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING IN NORTHERN MINNESOTA is a collection of poems honoring what poets, mystics, old country people, as well as the plants and animals, have always known—all living things
Poetry. "Banishing poets from the well-ordered city did not prevent the creation of fictions: SHAM CITY is the capitol of fictitious capital, a no place of evaporating value where things sue for 'dama
Poetry. Art. Woodcuts by Franklin Feldman. Rim is a man who works and thinks mainly with his body, a thinking farmhand, someone who labors physically and sees through things to a deeper level or core
Poetry. "Ratcliffe's site-based poetry channels the complex, intermeshing, and endlessly variable dimensions of place. Its calendar perpetually marks this very day. Things seen and heard through the '
Fiction. A MORTAL AFFECT is a satire of meaning systems targeting the role bureaucracy and cultural assumptions play in creating, distorting, and replicating the things we believe to be true. Informed
Poetry. In PALM TO PINE, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux taps community as its source: the community of things present, of light and sound, of memory and imagination. These poems explore the collected senses of t
Poetry. ENTRIES OF THE CELL is some of Franz Wright's best writing in years. "The cell will teach you all things" is a saying of some early Christians who, in the third century, bewildered to find tha
Poetry. On Kirsten Dierking's collection of poems NORTHERN ORACLE: "Kirsten Dierking's poems often focus on the small things, the unnoticed natural world around her, 'the unknowable swimmers' in the w
In this first book, the desire "To reabsorb. To make to reabsorb," calls for text to be like skin. Through radical disorganization of the order of things - where "the salt is unreadable," where"you tr
Poetry. "These are mysterious poems, unlike much being written now in this country. To find things like them, you may have to go back at least a decade to some of the work being done then und
Fiction. Finding a dead mouse in the lab is not usually such a big deal. But when the lab is a Biosafety Level-3 containment facility designed to keep things in and out, and when the mouse has a brain
