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. 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
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
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
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 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. 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. 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'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
Fiction. Walter Farnham is on a mission. Only he doesn't know it. Living above the garage of his former wife and her new husband, Walt has never been one to finish things, not even a divorce. In fact,
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. 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. Women's Studies. Populated by the quotidian events and things that punctuate our days (air travel, medical exams, bathrooms, phones, etc.), the poems in Niina Pollari's DEAD HORSE are anything
Poetry. "Keiran Goddard's poetry throws light on the things you're not supposed to notice; the fear and the beauty in a lover s handwriting, a snapped vine, an uneasy friendship. FOR THE CHOR
Poetry. "In San Francisco, Austin and Buffalo a chiel's among ye taking notes. David Hadbawnik like James Boswell has a knack for capturing all the things we wish we had said, as well as the street ta
Poetry. "I never set out to write a poem. I will jot things down in my notebook, sometimes ideational, sometimes not, sometimes picked up from the environment, or misheard, or from a dream, and occasi
Poetry. Women's Studies. The poems in this collection move into the past with her mother and father and also explore the present both with family and culture. The poems range in quick flourishes of co
Fiction. Short Stories. A set of linked stories with some of the same characters from PERSO and a lot of new ones and the world is the same but different from the world in PERSO and the stories
Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. The original 2012 essay collection, redesigned and with four new essays by the author.LEGS GET LED ASTRAY is a provocative collection of essays t
Aging. Self-Help. Health. Translated from the German by Michael Eskin. Learning to live with one's own aging is the new task: making an art of what once was a given—growing older; turning our society'
Fiction. Ten Women is George Bowering's brand new collection of short fiction. Each of these stories offers us a portrait of a woman with whom he may or may not have had either an intimate and/or a me
Poetry. EAST HOLLYWOOD: MEMORIAL TO REASON is a long poem-memoir. The reader walks with Harry through the streets of East Hollywood as he shares his life with us in language that is joyful, sorrowful
Poetry. "Preverbs are not so much assertions as events. Read on the page or, better yet, spoken, each of Quasha's lines is an occasion for becoming aware of meaning in the making. Releasing words
Fiction. Twenty-one new authors evoke the painful and beautiful realities of life. Whether the struggles of a recent immigrant to support his family, a young daughter dealing with her mother's mental
Fiction. Translated from the Ukrainian by Vitaly Chernetsky. In the 1990s, Karl-Joseph Zumbrunnen, an Austrian photographer with Galician roots, travels repeatedly through Ukraine. The chaos of the tr
Poetry. Fiction. With collages by the author. Doren Robbins' unique voice of existential disgust and cynicism comes through in a relentless damning of our culture, politics and state of being. And yet
Poetry. "Lesley Wheeler's new volume of poems, RADIOLAND, spellbinds with the gorgeous sounds of its poetry: 'Drag belly over gravel on a cave-lip / into the TV and sleep in it,' one poem opens.
Poetry. "Startlingly fecund, culturally shrewd, grounded in bright particulars and sly juxtapositions, Anis Shivani shows us with diamond brilliance what happens when language takes leave of its
Poetry. Driven by the rhythms of everyday language and filled with details only a lifelong outsider registers, Gloeggler sheds light on a world habitually ignored. Covering the 35 or so years the poet
It is the fiery pinnacle of autumn in New York's Hudson Valley when Lola, a troubled recluse, reports her newborn kidnapped from outside a seedy bar. But no one's seen Lola with a baby, or even heard
Poetry. "This is a collection of extraordinary range and depth, with acute sensitivity and insight throughout. Ruth Handel's gardens are 'no site for sentiment,' but they are sites of visitat
