Poetry. "GOG is an exorcism of the past, of terrible betrayals, of women churned into the earth with their stillborn children, children torn from childhood like the victims of some hideous do
Fiction. As the world's first completely illegal clone of America's 16th President, Abe Finkelstein grew up with just one wish: to live his life just like anybody else. But when you're a living ringer
Poetry. "Aaron Simon's lines feel like strokes of a pre-CBS Jazzmaster. Not plastic. More like rosewood with at least a Gibson tuneOmatic bridge. A brrruummm alliteration where each word-note
Poetry. Diana Anhalt's newest collection, BECAUSE THERE IS NO RETURN, is the reminiscence of her life in Mexico after fleeing the U.S. with her parents during the McCarthy Era. After nearly sixty year
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. 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
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
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
Poetry. Winner of 4th annual, Furniture Press Poetry Prize, selected by Elizabeth Robinson. "Kate Colby's poems unfurl like a complex melody. You wander through the day with them, following t
Poetry. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the Farsi by Parisa Samadi. The first English-language translation of Ziaeddin Torabi's Iran Book of the Year award- winning FACE TO FACE WITH DREAMS, p
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
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
Literary Nonfiction. George Guida's "Spectacles of Themselves" is a brilliant survey that reflects the workings of a subtle mind with a keen eye for the minutiae of expression in a c
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. 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. "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
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. With art by Aaron Cardella. "'The glass of water / on the table is / what's possible,' observes Broc Rossell, 'a little / flood / of elegance, / a recital.' The same could be said of
Fiction. Poetry. Nick Ripatrazone writes the kind of stories that sneak up on you as they build quietly and relentlessly to their explosive ends. Moving with dark, deliberate energy, Ripatrazone's wor
Poetry. With photography by Joan Scott. Claire Scott's great accomplishment is in knowing how to make poetry out of every part of her life. She's patient enough to hold opposites to the breaking point
Poetry. "Thick weight we feel for, bowl of poison & chicken feed we do also tip to our lips, gob of fused gold ingots we cough up in the river with the snow falling one etched flake a
Poetry. With art by Marc Shanker. "It is rare to find a poet so attuned to silence, that time—and space—between words, which for Paul Pines is 'the abyss / of mind-before-thought.' His practi
Poetry. A house echoes with the footfalls of wild men running behind the walls in S. Whitney Holmes's debut collection, Room Where I Get What I Want. Here in the house that is not a house, Holmes dest
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Pluck, swallow, bury, drive, frack. Debra Marquart's newest poetry ranges from the horrifying reality of Cold War leftovers, the consequences of fracking,
Literary Nonfiction. A memoir that takes the reader on a metaphorical journey of traumatic events cast in a psychological trajectory that begins with questions of death and ends in emotional consolati
Poetry. Film. Music. "Jamie Townsend's SHADE attends to 'lust, lost, friendship' with a rich, expressive desire for the 'solidarity of raw physical closeness,' for something 'beyond subjectiv
Poetry. Jewish Studies. "With delicacy and a refined lyricism, THE MINSTREL'S SONG embarks upon ancient and modern themes like the meaning of language and poetry, the presence and absence of
Poetry. Jewish Studies. "With delicacy and a refined lyricism, THE MINSTREL'S SONG embarks upon ancient and modern themes like the meaning of language and poetry, the presence and absence of
Poetry. Art. Silk screen printed glow-in- the-dark covers. Ebenkamp cracks open the mundane with jaded humor and uncanny horror. This collection of poems is densely packed and of psychedelic duration.
Fiction. California Interest. "At the last dusty town in a line of dusty towns," Clementine's story begins. In OH MY DARLING, Cate O'Toole has constructed a winding narrative with ma
Poetry. Women's Studies. Stevie Edwards's HUMANLY bravely and vulnerably confronts the complexities of living with mental illness in a voice that is equally feral and crafted. Through a gorgeous and g
Poetry. Women's Studies. African American Studies. Native American Studies. With lyric and narrative language OCCOQUAN maps the lives of nineteenth century slaves and of women who championed the twent
Fiction. After three years in Afghanistan, Otis is adjusting to life back home. Struggling with post- traumatic stress disorder, he obsessively replays the traumas of war, cataloging the names of the
Poetry. "INCOGNITUM inhabits several worlds at once—from the subterranean past, to the surface of our present condition—and affirms with a dexterous line poetry's ability to synthesize a limi
