Literary Nonfiction. Film Studies. Through keenly insightful readings of a variety of films, from full-length features to shorts, Anthony Julian Tamburri illuminates the vital and continuous relations
Poetry. AN ANATOMY OF THE NIGHT is a magnificent new work by one of America's foremost poets. In thirty-one parts written between December 2010 and February 2011, Eshleman's long poem creates a choral
Poetry. "As the world swiftly disarticulates, AT ELEMENT provides an intensely considered poetry of witness. Turn by turn 'imbedded in the book' and spoken 'from within the thing,' AT ELEMENT navigate
Poetry. DAYBOOK may be the quintessential work by Robert Crosson, distilling the raw materials of his working "daybooks" into a single pocketable volume. This book-length poem, completed in 1986, borr
Poetry. Translated from the Danish by Christopher Sand-Iversen. What, or who, is THE FIELD? Martin Glaz Serup calls it "everybody's autobiography" and Joanna Drucker calls it a "cosmology of banalitie
Poetry. KINGDOM OF THROAT-STRUCK LUCK by George Kalamaras is the winner of the 11th Annual Elixir Press Poetry Awards. Contest judge, Jenny Mueller, had this to say about the book: "These poems are li
Fiction. Announcing the long-awaited reprint of Steve McCaffery's rare 1984 intervention into fiction (if "fiction" indeed this be). Taking its inspiration from Jeremy Bentham's "Panopticon Papers" Mc
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Norwegian by Robert Hedin and Louis Jenkins. "I can't think of a better antidote to boredom than reading these prose poems. If you think you're in the pr
Poetry. California Studies. Winner of the 2010 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. "Lory Bedikian's THE BOOK OF LAMENTING begins within a foundation of lyricism: 'On the back of every tongue in my family
Poetry. "Brian Henry...entices the reader into the hidden crevices and empty spaces of daily existence"—Elizabeth Eger, PN Review (UK). "Henry is a keen observer who writes from a constantly changing
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from English into Italian by Ambra Meda. "A BOAT THAT CAN CARRY TWO is both an elegy and an affirmation of life. Haunted by memories of a lost sister, reprieved b
Literary Nonfiction. Translated from the Italian by Ilaria Marra Rosiglioni. "Pino Aprile's TERRONI is one of those books that could cause a revolution, albeit a peaceful one, if read by enough people
Drama. Native American Studies. Performing Arts. Approaching Native American theater as ceremonial performance comprised of centuries-old tribal traditions and aesthetic concepts, Hanay Geiogamah comb
Poetry. TO BE READ IN THE DARK casts its strobe of radical vision on the dark crises of our common experience. Personal and prophetic, these compressed lyrics are capacious in meaning. Here is a penet
Literary Nonfiction. Edited by community artist, scholar, and dancer Petra Kuppers (author of Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge and Community Performance: An Introduction), the b
Poetry. African American Studies. "These poems are at once a road trip of a new type and a tour of the little-known icons of our urban landscape, where brand-name objects and what might be called 'lit
Poetry. The poems in THIS COUNTRY OF GALE-FORCE WINDS present what may at first glance seem in fact to be a multiplicity of countries. Here are poems about the country of our here-and-now: the places
Fiction. LGBT Studies. Translated from the Slovenian by Erica Johnson Debeljak. LOST STORY is the celebrated novel by one of Europe's foremost gay writers. "A terrifying, fascinating, authentic accoun
Fiction. LGBT Studies. African American Studies. The second volume of Gladman's Ravicka trilogy continues the author's profound meditation upon translation and the ephemeral. THE RAVICKIANS narrates t
Poetry. "Craig Dworkin's MOTES is an unexpected delight of sparse poems that glitter, provoke, and beg for completeness. These pieces show Dworkin's impressive range as he travels seamlessly into the
Fiction. For years, Lucy has visited her sister Miriam each summer, but now? No more. The invitation has been retracted. Maybe because of Lucy's strange conversational word games? Or maybe the acciden
Drama. Translated from the German and French by Rob Melrose. This collection brings together new translations of three classic modernist plays: WOYZECK by Georg Buchner; PELLEAS AND MELISANDE by Mauri
Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Asian American Studies. Edited by Bill Freind. SCUBADIVERS AND CHRYSANTHEMUMS is a collection of essays on the poetry of Araki Yasuada. The book includes essays by Bill Fr
Fiction. Was Benjamin L. E. Bonneville, captain of the U.S. Army, granted a two-year leave to try his hand as a fur trader in the Rocky Mountain West? Or did his superiors have ulterior motives, taski
Literary Nonfiction. Essays. LGBT Studies. This interlinked collection of lyric essays documents Carol Guess's relationship to her father, a brilliant scientist whose intensity and eccentricity shaped
Poetry. Winner of the 2010 Robert Dana, Anhinga Prize for Poetry. "It's not just that these vivid, sometimes anxious, sometimes faith-full, consistently gorgeous lyrics surprise us, but that we don't
Literary Nonfiction. Ann Lauterbach considers the animated, elastic relation between what is given and what is chosen through the lens of art, critical thinking and her own experience as a poet. More
Fiction. Poetry. Art. Between dream and hallucination, the CARNIVAL OF SLEEP opens its tent for the unwary somnambulist. Ribitch's prose and poetry are sometimes dark and humorous, sometimes sublime l
Poetry. Full of linguistic jouissance and graphic beauty, Brandon Downing's latest release, the chapbook AT ME from Octopus Books, may be the best reparation for that irreparable language, American.
Poetry. "The concatenated series of poems in Judith Goldman's L.B. chart the narratives formed by texts of uniform density hanging freely from two fixed readings not in the same semantic line. On the
Poetry. Jewish Studies. "Stephen Paul Miller has written the most swingin', rockin', jazzy history of Judaism, Jews, and our favorite one and only God there is, that you will ever read. In verse. And
Literary Nonfiction. African American Studies. MIRACH SPEAKS TO HIS GRAMMATICAL TRANSPARENTS is a philosophical meditation vertically scripted. It is an extension of Alexander's first book in this mod
Poetry. Ever since the poems of Catullus were discovered in a wine cask in Verona in the 13th century, translators have returned to them over and over, insisting on their continued relevance. These tr
Poetry. "In SUGAR ZONE Mary Mackey takes you on a fascinating journey to the interior, somewhere between Saint Theresa's Inner Castle and the thicket of Eros—but also a place of desperate actuality, e
Poetry. "'[T]hrough the tunnel pushing water': the first appearance of this image in Charles Alexander's serial poem arises as if in a dream, and that sense of dream persists throughout this long and
Poetry. "If Carroll Kearley relied on mere reminiscence to propel the reader from poem to poem in THE PLAIN ABOVE THE RIVER, the collection might devolve to 'fragments of memory keep[ing] family toget
Poetry. Oblique, intelligent, and sad, THE LILY WILL introduces readers to a voice beautifully sustained through compressed lyrics and long, meticulous sequences. The geography of this book is one of
Poetry. In DIRT SONGS: A PLAINS DUET, Twyla M. Hansen and Linda M. Hasselstrom reflect on the influence of the Great Plains. These seasoned poems celebrate clouds, water and the earth; as well as thei
Poetry. Amanda J. Bradley's second book, OZ AT NIGHT, lives up to its title: it is dark and fantastical, frightening and playful. A courageous vision is at the center of Bradley's poetic project, and
Literary Nonfiction. This book includes essays on the phenomenon of the "guido": its origins and its relationship to the Italian/American community. The writers share their own views on a phenomenon t
