Poetry. Written in a seance of intuition and then extensively revised, SOMETHING IN THE WAY is an aboriginal blues, a gut map, where ecstatic clarity shares a bed with gall stone blindness. Proceeding
Poetry. "Emily Toder's BEACHY HEAD brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear the currents of Alice Notl
The poems of A Sunny Place with Adequate Water are at once pastoral and anti-pastoral, with obsolete and invented coin-operated machinery, surreal small town legends, and hope that the past might help
Poetry. "Jerome Sala's cheeky, splashy poetry seems never to be in a bad mood: he sails through profound political and historical issues with a tone of insouciance that—like an erudite carnival- barke
Poetry. Browning follows up her sold out debut, EITHER WAY I'M CELEBRATING, with an even rawer and starker, and again darkly humorous navigation of friendship, marriage, and motherhood. The result is
Fiction. In a prose whose strength and startling lyricism evoke Cormac McCarthy, Ashley Mayne tells the story of two young Texas girls on the loose, orphaned renegades with nothing to lose but each ot
Fiction. Over 20 Years of Stories. "What a pleasure to have all these stories by Lewis Warsh in one volume! They tend to be low-key, almost off- hand, but each with a poetic kernel that infects and de
Poetry. THIEVES IN THE FAMILY appear by day and night in gardens, dreams, encounters with the dead whose spirits transcend the web and weft of time. These poetic vignettes are captured with a cinemato
Poetry. Translated from the German by Stuart Friebert. Karl Krolow was a giant of twentieth century German letters, and made his mark early and often with poems, translations from Spanish, French and
Poetry. In FILM POEMS, readers find themselves with author Redell Olsen on the cutting-room floor of discourse, weaving together a manifesto of conceptual poetry that demonstrates the skipping and scr
Poetry. Dramatic and intimate, the poems in DOES SHE HAVE A NAME? trace the journeys of two women—one middle aged, the other her infant granddaughter—through near-mortal encounters with medical crises
Poetry. "In Grace Curtis's THE SHAPE OF A BOX a love of language as its own source and subject, with and without external reference, rubs elbows with the readily recognizable world of the everyda
Fiction. ELSA is the final psychological portrait in Keller's trilogy (after Maggie in JACKPOT, and Sally in RETELLING). In this novel, Elsa—and the reader along with her—is caught in a labyrinth of d
Poetry. RUSSIAN NOVELS is Luke Bloomfield's debut collection of poems. Intellectual and irreverent, Russian Novels is the work of a mildly disturbed imagination that spans the absurd and mundane with
Poetry. "Stuart Kestenbaum's ONLY NOW is a rare accomplishment: a collection of poems that takes on the fragility of the world and our own mortality, and does so with unflinching directness and, most
Poetry. With art by Wayne Atherton. "The sea's endlessness, its glittery surfaces, the often scruffy island life of the Bahamas are wonderfully recorded in Paul Pine's FISHING ON THE POLE STA
Poetry. "In NIGHT WALKING WITH NATHANIEL, Dennis Daly skillfully draws a vivid panorama of fascinating Salem, a town he knows profoundly well. Its richly shadowed past contrasts ironically wi
Poetry. With "I have countered / I constructed," Brooks-Motl delivers a mode by which THE NEW YEARS unfolds: we are met with the solitude of self, deluged by slow particulars, surrounded by a haunting
Poetry. "What dreams of grandeur, Joanna Sit asks, make us fly? Here's what I know now: the pilgrimmage to love & knowing begins IN THAILAND WITH THE APOSTLES. Wallace Stevens famously remarked th
Fiction. With illustrations by the author. "When the body betrays it forces you to learn its language, turning patients and kin into spontaneous islands of urgent expertise. Through overlaid registers
Fiction. Poetry. Women's Studies. Art. Kate Durbin's E! ENTERTAINMENT sparkles with the static of TV personalities, the privileged dramas of MTV's The Hills and Bravo's Real Housewives, the public tra
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Attempts to control the mouths of "speaking women"—17th century witches, 19th century hysterics—have taken many forms, both physical and me
Fiction. OUT THERE is the story of a young Army veteran (Jefferson Long Soldier) who returns home safely to New Mexico after two tours of duty in Iraq convinced that the book he carried with him (One
Poetry. RED BOOK OF BLUES breaks up into five unique sections of poems: Yellow Exedras with Images of the Madonna, Mixed Bag, Pop Sonnets and Slick Poems, Lowell Blues, andAnd the Gods Make Love.
Poetry. THE DUSTBOWL is a collection of serial poems that intertwine Arthurian legend and Dust Bowl Americana with fragmented memories of Arizona and California. The book's polyphonic voices conjoin p
Poetry. "His lines are clouds of love, piercing the sky with enormous empathy, rolling in the azure, torrents of passion, and are arrows at the same time, reaching a peak where they break, crying, cle
Poetry. "There are few poets in America who can combine Joan Larkin's formal mastery with her emotional intensity."—David Bergman Joan Larkin's are poems of "relentless self-examination, taking on lo
Poetry. Emanuel di Pasquale's SELF- PORTRAIT offers a collection of small but powerful poems that present a world where the poet, the poem and thus the reader wrestle with the human connection with na
Poetry. "JANUARY FOUND is a hallucinary of the contemporary, its poems contemporous wonder rooms filled with the outside noise of our culture. I didn't even know that January was lost until Michael Si
Poetry. "Sophie Seita's FANTASIAS IN COUNTING furthers an evolving, intense and remarkable body of work with performative textuality, spatiality and ethics of presence. Her poetry and poetics test the
Poetry. In this stunning new collection, Mackey offers her readers fifty-eight intensely lyrical poems written with the same skill and passion that made her previous collection Sugar Zone winner of th
Poetry. SOME MEASURE OF EXISTENCE by Margorie Buettner is a full-length collection of haibun, a Japanese form combining prose and haiku. This wide ranging collection is arranged traditionally, with a
Poetry. THE COURIER'S ARCHIVE & HYMNAL navigates a purgatory made nearly pastoral by a necrotic vision of consumptive rivers, ghost mazes, corpsethieves, and stalkerish moons. With an exacting, ha
The blue collar Detroiters in these stories wrestle with the rich, uncomfortable nuances of the "examined life" while the turmoil of bar fights, bill paying, and detox hurtles them towards enlightenme
Poetry. With the recent deaths of his parents nine months apart and a lifelong egotistical dissatisfaction with personal extinction Gordon Massman throws everything he has at DEATH, the title of this
Poetry. Zach Savich's fourth book of poetry, CENTURY SWEPT BRUTAL, offers a rapt and restless meditation on what Oppen called "the world, weather-swept with which / one shares the century." In a lands
Poetry. Graphic Poetry. THE BONES OF US, with words by J. Bradley and art by Adam Scott Mazer, is a full- length graphic poetry collection. It takes us into the confusing darkness of a marriage's diss
Poetry. LGBT Studies. MYSTERIOUS ACTS BY MY PEOPLE is a fearless exploration of love, grief, violence, and humor. Wetlaufer documents the search for comfort and deliverance in language rich with mater
Poetry. LGBT Studies. If Denis Johnson had written Tuesdays with Morrie, it'd feel like Megan Volpert's book of prose poems. Clawing its way out through this minimalist checklist of suburban malaise i
Poetry. How do we forgive? How do we evolve? What makes us human? TURN wrestles with our ideas of race, gender, abuse, love, sex, motherhood, and death. Sensual and philosophical, personal and univers
