Fiction. "Murder is afoot, or aslither, in Newport Bay, the setting for Eric Olson's bracingly odd, darkly infolding tale of a Pacific Northwest hamlet where the shellfish have come up to tak
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
Southeast Asian Studies. Photography. Literary collections. Seoul Selection is proud to announce the release of VIETNAM MOMENT, a photo essay collection that presents the beauty and wisdom of the Viet
Poetry. "Originally, I thought that we exhaustively compiled the list, but now I found that there should be some added..." wrote Cindy Meston, co-author of Why Humans Have Sex, in the Archives of Sexu
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
Film Studies. Asian Studies. This book is the result of efforts to reach a deeper and broader understanding of the director Bong Joon-ho, who has been the subject of a great deal of popular interest a
At odds in the World: Essays on Jewish Canadian Women Writers brings together a series of essays by Ruth Panofsky that probe the artictration of jewishness and femaleness through the lens of literatur
Fiction. Eastern European Studies. Translated from the Ukrainian by Vitaly Chernetsky. "The literary dormitory at Moscow University becomes a kind of Russian Grand Hotel, serving the last supper of em
Poetry. "Robert Creeley wrote about poems that make rites of passage actual, poems that speak a primary language. In KATA, James Maughn speaks a primary language. He is inventing a world--and this bea
Poetry. Delving into the fissures of language as an opportunity to create something new, Rosenfield appropriates texts from various fields of knowledge (evolutionary theory, psychoanalysis, advice on
Poetry. "'Everything is hot when taken / out of the body and into town.' If maps could have weather, I'd say: here's a map of that journey, from the body into town and back. If a map could have sound—
Two full-length collections of prose poems contained in Body Language, one titled Body (on parts of the body) and one titled Primer (on numbers and letters), together form a diptych investigating the
Literary Nonfiction. Biography and Memoir. Part Seven in the ongoing series of collective autobiography, THE GRAND PIANO PART SEVEN continues to mark the events, movements and intersections among ten
A seminal text in the history of poetry and poetics, Tender Buttons was originally published in 1914 and is considered one of the great Modern experiments in verse. At one time or another it has been
Poetry. THREE YEARS FROM UPSTATE is a book of poetry fascinated by the epic strain of John Milton and the romances of William Shakespeare. "Often breathtaking, Regier's poetry always remains rooted in
Fiction. A spare and chilling account of the day-to-day experience of Sloper, a janitor in a big-city office building, WASTE explores the import of the discarded--for those who generate it, those who
Fiction. Includes full-color illustrations by Haeri Yoo. In RANCHO WEIRDO, Laura Chester's new collection of short stories, life on the U.S./Mexican border presents a clash of cultures and expectation
Cultural Writing. Biography and Memoir. Number six in the ongoing series of collective autobiography, THE GRAND PIANO (PART SIX) continues to mark the events, movements and intersections among ten con
Poetry. "Michael Cirelli has invented his own electric school of lyric, stamping an unflinching signature on soul-infused stanzas that are alternately tender, tough, revelatory and always, alwaays una
After Rilke is the culmination of more than five years work. I began thinking about the sounds of words (rather than their meanings) the summer of 2001 while reading from bpNichol's whimsical translat
Poetry. "Michael Cirelli has invented his own electric school of lyric, stamping an unflinching signature on soul-infused stanzas that are alternately tender, tough, revelatory and always, alwaays una
Fiction. Translated from the Swedish by Laura A. Wideburg. "In the disturbing second tale of revenge to feature tormented and twisted Justine Dalvik from Swedish author Frimansson (after GOOD NIGHT, M
Poetry. "Between what's perceived and how one adds meaning spells a moment of infinite duration, an admixture of sense and thinking, of mirror-clear images and impressionistic language. 'A Message Bac
Fiction. The four chapbooks collected in A PECULIAR FEELING OF RESTLESSNESS, three of them finalists and one of them the winner of the Rose Metal Press first annual short short chapbook contest, all r
Drama. Flarf. Gary Sullivan's collection of short plays in PPL IN A DEPOT were first intended for the page and/or screen only, but somehow made their way onto the stage in various productions. This co
Poetry. A native New Yorker and a longtime resident of downtown Manhattan, Tony Towle is "one of the New York School's best-kept secrets," as John Ashbery has written, calling his New and Selected Poe
Cultural Writing. Essays. Urban Studies. INTERSECTION is the first volume in a series called ChainLinks, a spinoff project of the journal Chain edited by Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr. The goal of this
Fiction. Moazzam's Sheikh's sexually-charged tales unfold against a backdrop of colonization and ethnic tensions in Pakistan and the Middle East, and they also explore the immigrant's dilemma in the U
Poetry. Sam Truitt's landmark work of contemporary poetry, VERTICAL ELEGIES: THREE WORKS consists of the long poem 'Song of Rasputin,' the 40-day poetic chronicle 'Raton Rex,' and the multi-layered co
Poetry. Hazel Smith, author of the creative writing text, The Writing Experiment, shows us how it's done in this spirited book of performance poems, collages, elegies, meditations, explorations of gos
Poetry. From a longer sequence of "Odes & fragments" these select few entail the processes of ruminative thought as they go over the edge into careening feeling. "The reader is placed in an immane
Poetry. Dan Bellm's third book of poems takes as its starting point the Jewish practice of studying weekly portions of the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, in an annual cycle. Working
George Albon's Momentary Songs sound the possibilities of forwardness ana hope in a surrounding twilight of unprecedented venality. Using a variety of registers-lyrical inquiry, Blakean exhortation, t
Narrated by an author on vacation among the classical ruins of the ancient city of Side on the Mediterranean coast in Turkey, Summer's End provides an intricate picture of a large cross-section of mod
Poetry. "The name Kalamaras means, as everyone knows, He Who Channels the Throat Songs of the Inflamed Detectives of Southern Surreality. He has more language at his command than Peter Mark Roget, but
Cultural Writing. Biography and Memoir. Number five in the ongoing series of collective autobiography, THE GRAND PIANO (PART FIVE) continues to mark the events, movements and intersections among ten c
Poetry. Akilah Oliver's collection of poetry THE PUTTERER'S NOTEBOOK is #3 in the Belladonna Chapbook Series, published in editions of 300. Part of an ongoing series of historico-political note-taking
Poetry. YOU is a collection of poetry by Frank Stanford, published shortly after his startling death in 1979. YOU was published by Lost Roads Publishers, formed in 1976 by C.D. Wright and the author h
Poetry. Ghostly and energetic, Jayne Pupek's poems range in content through an ambivalent abortion, a lover's abandonment, childhood abuse, a bad case of the flu, and her own longings. Each poem's gra
Poetry. "Bern Mulvey's THE FAT SHEEP EVERYONE WANTS is a study in intimacy--an intimacy conspiring across cultures, languages, families and landscapes despite histories of war, racism and difference.
