Poetry. Literary Criticism. Revised Edition. A new, perfect-bound edition of Andrew Joron's unprecedented work on the development of surrealist tendencies in American poetry between 1966-1999. This re
Poetry. LET ME OPEN YOU A SWAN is the winner of the 2009 Elixir Press Antivenom Poetry Award. Judge Michele Mitchell-Foust had this to say about the winning manuscript: "Deborah Bogen is the real thin
Beyond Waking is a stunning book that transcends time in its movement: stripping it down, puncturing the layers of formality of presentation/while at the same time honoring them. Karasek's very sure s
Poetry. In her second book of poetry, Camille Martin breathes fresh life into the sonnet in a collection that is at once edgy and lyrical. The word "sonnet" comes from "song," and the musicality of SO
Poetry. THE RAINDROP'S GOSPEL: THE TRIALS OF ST. JEROME AND ST. PAULA is the winner of the Ninth Annual Elixir Press Poetry Awards. It is a novel in verse chronicling the lives of St. Jerome and St. P
Poetry. THE REDCOATS is a book of doubts. An elegy and celebration of those fragments of a specific American history always at risk of reduction to kitsch and irony. These poems attempt to manufacture
Westward the course of empire, the dream flood Pouring toward gold and glory, Or, at least, some better chances.The chance to head out, to get away From the quarters, from the steerage, From the tight
Poetry. "How does Jean LeBlanc make her poems so comfortably alive? Her candor, yes. Images already there. Full of surprise, but amiably free of shock. She is one of us, being singular. Such a pleasur
Poetry. "The voice that calls over time distinguishes this shining debut book of poems, ACETYLENE. Moving through centuries, through other languages, through myths and stories, Carol Quinn's work gath
Poetry. Art. This collaborative collection of poems by Alvaro Cardona-Hine and George Kalamaras also includes cover art and five additional paintings (reproduced in color) by Cardona-Hine, who--beside
Poetry. In her introduction to Susie Timmons's first collection of poems, Alice Notley noted Timmons's personality, her "naked" train of thought and, above all, her wit. "I just want to know what she'
Poetry. The plan for POST~TWYLA, first published abroad in 2006, was to spoof John Ashbery's book-length poem Flow Chart by way of three-line ersatz haiku, a contradictory format to the prolixity of t
Poetry. "TOUGH SKIN is an invention of glittering grotesqueries. Part librarian, part Georges Bataille, part crazy old lady, these poems-stories-whatever-they-are will haunt you like a drunken uncle w
Drama. In this selection of plays, Jesse Glass's imagination rages, leaps and staggers from the Challenger disaster of 1986 to the hallucinated lucubrations of Thomas Holley Chivers (friend and rival
Poetry. "The strength of Tim Hunt's nature poems drew me into this book. His observation of light, rocks, a hawk and a field mouse in 'High Desert Summer,' a California landscape, is so intense that h
Fiction. FASCIA is a series of Southern vignettes describing various angles of life, from the silent-movie starlet, to the high school prom queen approaching middle age, to the adolescent boy. In each
Poetry. This debut collection is a case study, a documentation, a journaling. It's a bunch of poems about girls, sex, cigarettes, PBR, and everything else that is the world of hip. It is the winner of
Poetry. Translated from the French by Brian Evenson and Joanna Howard. "A compendium of aphoristic passages, a flipbook of presences and absences, an exquisitely minimalist travelogue-cum-commonplace
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "Bengtson's poems are rough-edged and sassy. He pulls no punches. This trip down LEAVENWORTH STREET is not for the weak of heart or the shy of spirit. Be prepared for a few bruis
Fiction. Mapping a utopia on the brink, THE MOTHERING COVEN's rare blend of charisma and pyrotechnic wordplay makes for an utterly original act of storytelling. Bertrand has disappeared from the house
The Spark Singer by Jade Sylvan is an intellectual and visceral carnival ride. Spanning a range of forms, styles, and subjects, the poems in this book finally crest into a feeling of identification wi
Nonfiction. Travel. Southeast Asian Studies. Seoul Selection is proud to announce the release of SEOUL SELECTION GUIDES: SEOUL. The most comprehensive guidebook to the city of Seoul ever released, SEO
Poetry. "Kevorkian finds the extraordinary in patterns of everyday life. Whether moving through an arid landscape of desert flora, exploring the waving of inflatable tube men, or registering the inces
Literary Nonfiction. Travel Writing. South Asia Studies. "Irreverent is a good word to describe this chronicle of a four-month sojourn in North India and the Himalayas undertaken by a group of Califor
"INRI" responds to the need to find a language for an event that was kept hidden and excluded from official records in Chile: the fact that the bodies of the disappeared were thrown out of helicopters
When Sophie LaGrange hears that her idol, Olympic gold medal winner Barbara Ann Scott, is coming to town to star in the Hollywood Ice Review in the autumn of 1951, she can't wait to meet the famous fi
Poetry. "Estha Weiner's sensibility is beautifully unique—a blend of Beckett and Dorothy Parker, Maine and New York City, loss and evocation. The poems have gnomic quality; their conclusion is the hab
Joe Paddock writes in apprehension of what he has come to call the call the BIG STORY. Panting along the trail of our private agendas, not so many of us care to hear this story. But its voice is insis
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Ukrainian by Orest Popovych. "From Yehuda Amichai to the New York Group, from the state of the Union to the stables of Gertrude Stein, violins in their c
Fiction. Translated from the Italian by Martha King. Winner of the prestigious Viareggio Literary Prize in 1984, Tosca dei gatti [TOSCA, THE CAT LADY] offers the reader one of the most intriguing char
Poetry. "When you pick up PINK & HOT PINK HABITAT go directly to the table of contents, look at the titles there, you want to read the poems called by these names, then go to the first poem, being
Poetry. Ira Joe Fisher's first full-length collection of poems, SOME HOLY WEIGHT IN THE VILLAGE AIR, is written in a soft, pastoral tone, yet these poignant poems strike understanding in a subtle lang
Poetry. "These are not merely some of the most extraordinary lyrics about central European urban realities since the death of the great Polish experimental poet Miron Bialoszewski. They are,
Fiction. When violence erupts on the streets of Paris in May 1968, a hapless international film crew finds itself stranded during the shooting of a preposterous low-budget blue movie about notorious 1
Poetry. Translated from the Polish by Piotr Florczyk. Born in Gliwice in 1946, Julian Kornhauser is one of the most acclaimed figures of Polish poetry writing today. A major figure of the New Wave mov
Poetry. LGBT Studies. Limited Edition. In this special series of eight perfect-bound books, each book is an anthology and a conversation between the guest curator and the elder(s) she hosts. In ELDERS
Fiction. The story begins when Elizabeth encounters Beth, her new neighbor and coworker, whose resilience and originality awaken a memory of a younger self. THE SECOND ELIZABETH is a densely poetic me
Poetry. The ambition of Ish Klein's debut collection, UNION!, like that of the Soviet/Russian "Soyuz" space program it's named after, is to take us to another world so that we may better see our own.
Poetry. TOMORROWLAND is a book-length poem of bodily transit and colonial forgetting. Its names and events perpetually arrive in a new world, whose versions here combine promised lands and historical
