Poetry. "There is an open doorway between organism and environment, between inhabitant and habitat, between body and nature. Vicki Graham stands at that threshold and speaks to us in a language of int
Poetry. "...Forever at play in the fields of the word, Q.R. Hand is a homegrown American original. Place this book to your ear and hear: 'All those beautiful fine / all those fine / all those who spre
Literary Nonfiction. Criticism & Theory. Poetics.Dworkin has edited a collection of amazing new essays on poetics, summarizing the variety of poetries that have arisen in innovative writing during
Poetry. In UNDER FLAG, winner of the 1991 Multicultural Publishers Book Award, Myung Mi Kim writes in a stark, unflinching voice that alternately drives to the core of painful subject matter and backs
Poetry. Art. "In the first image of Ruth Lepson and Walter Crump's MORPHOLOGY, the eye follows train tracks into a distant background of earth-meets-sky, the sky a near circle of light, presenting at
Poetry. Poet Sam Pereira has recently published a collection of poetry called A CAFE IN BOCA. "Reading Sam's poems is a little like falling down a magic rabbit hole: the world you thought you
Literary Nonfiction. Philosophy. Winner of the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Award. Translated from the German by Michael Eskin. In this penetrating, thought-provoking, and deeply personal philosoph
Poetry. Translated from the German by Rosmarie Waldrop. Pen Award for Poetry in Translation, 2008. LINGOS takes as its playground all the cultural baggage of our turn of the century and examines it wi
Cultural Writing. Poethical Criticism. Professor Howard Fergus' book is the first comprehensive study of the works of poet Lasana M. Sekou, one of the most innovative and refreshingly strong lyrical v
Poetry. Gay and Lesbian Studies. Translated from the Swedish by Fredrik Hertzberg. "To read Bjorling is to eat language"--Aase Berg. "Du gar de ord, the last collection of p
Poetry. Fiction. Cultural Writing. Art. Edited by Christine Wertheim and Matias Viegener. THE NOULIPIAN ANALECTS is a comprehensive, alphabetical survey of constraint-based writing in modern English,
Poetry. tI'me'S-pace is book 1, volume 2 of a wider, ongoing project known as "For Love Alone" Christina'S-tead, a poetic enquiry into the current state of the English tongue. "In a time when many are
Poetry. In the title sequence of this stunning debut, DEAR BODY: imagines the dialog between body and mind as a playful literary correspondence. One that begins whimsically: "We prayed to your effigy
Poetry. Asian Studies. Translated from the Korean by Scott Swaner and Young-Jun Lee. Hwang Jiwoo's poems are built of odd juxtapositions and comparisons, like a mother's hospital crisis and "the Veron
Poetry. Jasper Bernes's magnificent and multi-layered first book, STARSDOWN, emerges as a record of Los Angeles as its physical space collapses into specters and marks, where "the sky is a swimming po
Literary Nonfiction. African American Studies. THE ESSENCE OF REPARATIONS is Baraka's first published collection of essays in book form radically exploring what is sure to become a twenty-first centur
Nonfiction. Asian Studies. Tea. Tea drinking is now a global pastime and a delectable variety of teas are much sought after by connoisseurs worldwide. In this meditative volume to understanding, appre
Poetry. ON GOING is a collection of poems, sketches, and writings from a notebook between 2002-2005. During this time, Tom Morgan traveled extensively across the United States, back and forth across t
Fiction. "TRIBULATIONS OF A WESTERNER IN THE WESTERN WORLD is a grand tour of a bland realm, framed by a slideshow and narrated by a cranky viewer in a running-off-at-the-mind commentary that veers fr
Poetry. "In THAT ABRUPT HERE Joel Bettridge proposes an entirely tender yet radical new imagination of the elegy: i.e., a blessing underway; a ceremony in wandering search of its proper and b
Poetry. "Aaron Belz is a gravely hilarious poet. The poems from THE BIRD HOVERER are part Discovery Channel, party History Channel, part E!--his ferocious intelligence, his love of glitz, and his wry
Poetry. TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT, the first perfect-bound edition of this exciting Bay Area poet's work, features 48 poems titled TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT. In the Author's Note, Meng explains that the poems ins
Poetry. Distinct, clear, and free of flourishes, Max Winter's debut collection of poems, THE PICTURES, examines war, boredom, death, love, decay, happiness, and worship through a series of moving and
Poetry. "Allows observation, love, memory, confusion, and explanation to intermix and play"--Juliana Spahr. "Regions of cultural conflict and reconnection...the syntax that delves there is sincere and
Poetry. In DAILY SONNETS Laynie Browne charts new territory as she subtly investigates the daily influxes of the poetic moment. From longing for the family in the very midst of the family, to the play
Poetry. "Amy King's mercurial poems capture the instability of cultural, sexual, and poetic identity. In the circuitry of her illuminated, incongruous, but somehow perfectly apt details, 'the alien be
Fiction. The title character of THE REVISIONIST conducts covert surveillance on a city whose inhabitants are subject to uncanny transformations as a result of catastrophic weather, political corruptio
Poetry. "Stan Apps' INFO RATION collects many of this young talent's very best pieces...I have seen them all--quasi list poems, sonnets in distortion, telepathic TV contraptions, poems writte
Cultural Writing. Essays. Fiction. Jewish Studies. Writer Joshua Cohen and artist Michael Hafftka interpret the twenty-two letters of the "Aleph Bet," the Hebrew alphabet, in this collection of short
Poetry. Anthology. BLUE ARC WEST: An Anthology of California Poets, features work from Rich Yurman, Kim Young, Neil Aitken, Linda Brown, Sherman Pearl, Bruce Lader, Nita Donovan, ellen, Keven Bellows,
Fiction. Short stories. Lasana M. Sekou is the author of 11 books of poetry, monologues, and short stories. He is the leading writer of St. Martin and is considered one of the prolific Caribbean poets
Fiction. From the author of the novel Detour, for which he received the Ernest Hemingway Foundation Citation of the PEN American Center, comes LIMIT POINT, another volume of short fiction by the proli
Poetry. BONNEVILLE by Jenny Mueller is the winner of the Editors' Prize in the Elixir Press Sixth Annual Poetry Awards. Jenny Mueller grew up among the small towns north of Chicago--now a series of co
Poetry. "Brian Kim Stefans' KLUGE is cultural karaoke. It takes the last two decades, two centuries, of poetry making strategies and super-texts them under our live dramas of the original language. KL
Poetry. The new book by prolific L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poet Bruce Andrews, SWOON NOIR never fails to shake up linguistic expectations, without ridding itself of Andrews' characteristically wide ranging dict
Poetry. Translated from the German by James Mitchell. Readers of these carefully crafted translations by James Mitchell will profit not only by their economy and clarity of expression, but also by the
Lorri Neilsen Glenn?s poems welcome the reader into a place where the strange is made familiar and the familiar reveals its own magic. Here the combustible materials of childhood and old age are alway
Arriving by vessels that landed at Vera Cruz in the sixteenth-century, conquistadors proffered mirrors to natives of Mexico in exchange for gold. Five hundred years after the initial contact between E
The poems in Nathalie Anderson's Crawlers explore family, in its traditional sense and as a metaphor for the relationships of the world at large, mining dark and complicated truths. Anderson's imagery
Poetry. "Bradajo, one of the pioneers of local Hawai'i literature in Pidgin (Hawaiian Creole English), writes poems in an idiosyncratic and artful calligraphy. His is wisdom poetry, composed of runic
