Poetry. "In CORRECT ANIMAL, Rebecca Farivar re-enlivens and re-imagines the art of the tiny poem. Forgoing both the high seriousness of imagism and the theatrics of conceptual gesture, these poems ins
Drama. Translated from the Polish by Gerard T. Kapolka. KORDIAN is a Polish classic written in 1833 by Juliusz Slowacki and features an amalgam of revolutionary spirit, tradition, modernist bravado an
Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. BURNING BRIGHT: PASSAGER CELEBRATES 21 YEARS presents over one hundred of the most memorable and distinctive poems, stories and memoir published in Passager, the
Poetry. Translated from the French by Keith Waldrop. Real and fictional characters (Mrs. Lindbergh, Gertrude Stein, William Burroughs, Billy Budd or the Kid) circulate through the four parts of FOUR C
Poetry. East Asia Studies. Literary History & Criticism. After the end of World War II, Japanese poet Tamura Ryuichi began publishing Arechi (The Wasteland), a literary magazine charting a new cou
Fiction. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. NOT MERELY BECAUSE OF THE UNKNOWN THAT WAS STALKING TOWARD THEM is a dark re-visioning of J.M. Barrie's Peter and Wendy--as only Jenny Boully could have written.
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Spanish by Jennifer Rathbun. This bilingual edition of Alberto Blanco's AFTERGLOW/TRAS EL RAYO represents the first full book of h
Poetry. "Enter a shimmering, wavering, vacillating, crinkly reality, the mysterious acrobatic disjointing of what you thought you knew. Enter Mark DuCharme's ANSWER, where the self-evident succumbs to
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Art. Edited by Peter Huttinger and John M. Bennett. Before the untimely death of the word artist and Fluxus artist Davi Det Hompson, he and avant-garde poet John M. Bennet
Poetry. "Every once in a while there's a collection of poems that cancels my way of thinking for a better way. Carrie Hunter's THE INCOMPOSSIBLE divines 'The decapitated head of Lack.' Over and over s
Poetry. "Only a coherent perception of life, informed by artistic engagement, can offer the cynic of a dark age any hope or enlightenment, and make a largely brutish, inhuman existence bearable, enabl
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Judith Baumel's third book of poetry, THE KANGAROO GIRL, detects religion at the scene of many crimes: from the great disasters of the past to the small calamities of Jewish Am
Poetry. Limited Edition. This anthology, selected from books published by Red Dragonfly Press over the press's first fifteen years, includes over three hundred pages of poetry and represents the work
Poetry. In her debut collection of poems, Theresa Senato Edwards gives voice to womanhood, from daughter and mother to warrior and lover. Through whispers and screams, her words shatter the glass of t
Poetry. Linda Lerner's latest book, TAKES GUTS AND YEARS SOMETIMES, is a collection of poems dating from the early 80s to the present. An immigrant daughter's courageous search for her identity, her r
Poetry. A very personal collection of poems, in which Mark Vinz, editor of the legendary Midwest magazine Dacotah Territory, honors his lifelong passion for poetry and pays tribute to the poets that i
Literary Nonfiction. Criminal Law. Here is a unique bringing together of nonfiction (the lawyer's perspective) and fiction (the writer's view) on a topic of devastating concern to victims and the accu
These are poems of critical thought that have been influenced by old fiddle tunes. These are essays that are not out to persuade so much as ruminate, invite, accrue.Hall is a surruralist (rural &
Weary of saccharine stories and tired themes when reading poetry for children? Angered at seeing your children indoctrinated into adhering to patriarchy, neoliberal capitalism, and general compliance
Poetry. "The poet goes to war in Vietnam as a clarinetist in the Army band and returns from hell to tell about it. It is vital that we read and hear Elijah Imlay—for our sense of history, for the trut
Poetry. "As we get older, many of us will develop diseases and conditions that will menace not only our bodies, but also the spiritual nature of our humanity and our most personal definitions of who w
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Proclaimed "girl-pervert" Oriana Small, AKA Ashley Blue, a veritable artist at heart, weaves through the intricacies of a decade in and out of the adult film industry, lov
Poetry. LGBT Studies. COOL LIMBO is a series of dazzling portraits that are accessible yet complex, hilarious yet poignant, down-to-earth yet ethereal. Like its cover, which features the title poem's
Poetry. PERIL AS ARCHITECTURAL ENRICHMENT tests landscape as the subject of experience. Propelling awareness vertically and horizontally, it questions how limbs want to move in space, when convivial w
Poetry. Native American Studies. Oscillating between alienation and wholeness, OTHER SUNS carves a path between light and darkness, grief and continuance. From the edges of violence and doubt to "ridi
Poetry. In AT THE POINT, Joseph Massey's second full-length collection of poems, memory gives way to edges and angles, to "Sound heaped/on sound," to spaces that "make the shade/tangible" as words arr
Fiction. THEY COULD NO LONGER CONTAIN THEMSELVES contains—but just barely—five chapbooks of flash fiction, including the winner of the third annual Rose Metal Press short short chapbook contest, and f
Poetry. STILL: OF THE EARTH AS THE ARK THAT DOES NOT MOVE attempts that rare "theory of everything," the implications of which are, it goes on...wave upon wave of stuff, categories, speakers, news. Em
Poetry. LEFT HAVING is the second full-length collection from poet Jesse Seldess. "One sees lines coming into being going out of existence. Taken that way, the words turning toward lines, seeing them
Literary Nonfiction. New and Expanded Edition. "In 'Eco-logic in Writing,' one of many brilliant essay-talks in this volume, Leslie Scalapino asks, 'Seeing the the moment of, or at the time of, writin
Fiction. Asian American Studies. MEMORY SICKNESS by Phong Nguyen is the winner of the 2010 Elixir Press Fiction Award. It is a loosely related series of short stories, set in Rhode Island, that illumi
Brian Henderson has established himself as a poet who brilliantly makes us aware of language as an instrument of discovery. In his work we realize, over and over again, that each of the minds worlds s
Poetry. "In scores of vignettes, Jennifer Wolfe eviscerates the twisted path taken by today's conservatives. Her scalpel leaves the 'elephant' crippled and drowning in a pool of its own speculation, c
"Michael Kimball is a hero of contemporary fiction." ?Sam LipsyteA husband wakes up to find his wife has had a seizure during the night. His wife is rushed to a hospital where she lies in a coma. By d
Poetry. "Nimble, spirited, marked by sharp and witty insights, ALMOND TOWN offers us a sensuous feast of music. This poet has an excellent ear for language, and affectionately celebrates hummingbirds,
Fiction. Art. THE MUTATION OF FORTUNE documents the parallel fortunes of one protagonist living multiple lives. As she navigates her Marchen landscape, she goes through varied transformations, becomin
Poetry. "How does the present imprint itself on language, on poetry? Gloria Frym's MIND OVER MATTER shows us that: the outlines of the endless wars, the credit default swaps. But it also shows poetry
Poetry. "THE SPITE HOUSE is a book of dark vision and broad range, haunted by intimacy and anger, by a fierce fidelity to truth and to the elusiveness of truth, by emotional, spiritual, cultural, and
Poetry. "Here is a quarter century of work from a poet who has patiently teased out the sounds of sense from American speech—overheard on a father-and-son tour of prospective colleges or at a 'scrub-u
Poetry. RIVER BY THE GLASS is a collection of poems spanning two decades. The poems contain a whimsical wit and metaphysical humor—poems such as "Carp" or "Eye"—and such poems as "A Poet" or "Yellow t
