Poetry. Ron Padgett's poems are remarkably clear, almost invisibly so, like a refreshing glass of cold water—poems in which he goes nit-picking with the OED, uses Tulsa plain-speak in the diction of B
Poetry. " What else is poetry for if it doesn't provide us with new ways of thinking? There is a social issue to Stephen Rodefer's poems, a comedy of manners. The result is a relentless critique of so
Poetry. "Amber Nelson's distinct and densely sounded lyrics seem at first to come from another age, to rhyme and pun with another language. But they shoot out 'bow and error' in surprising ways, and N
Magazine. Poetry. Art. Edited by E. Tracy Grinnell and erica kaufman, with guest editor Tyrone Williams, contributing editors Jen Hofer and Jamie Townsend, and art editor Ashley Lamb. Featuring poetry
Poetry. Translated from the Ukranian by Svitlana Bednazh, Gladys Evans, Michael M. Naydan, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Mary Skrypnyk, Aliona Sydorenko, Martha B. Trofimenko, and Walter May. Edited with an intro
Poetry. "'...[W]hat is this intervening / That passes for now but / A box with windows...' I am shaken by these poems, over and over lines so wise, so tender, they both weep and laugh as they tumble f
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Persian by Kazim Ali with Mohammad Jafar Mahallati. "There's modernism & then there's modernism—depending on where you are. Sohrab Sepehri was in Ira
Fiction. "Shipley demonstrates what can and ought to be done when even the most mundane subject phrasings are charged with meaningful expression. These densely crafted aphoristic vignettes are prose s
Poetry. "These poetic constellations are places to inhabit and shifting possibilities for meaning. Jessica Smith rounds every corner with another corner. ORGANIC FURNITURE CELLAR is the future in a no
Poetry. Sherman Souther first came to Hawaii in 1972 as a Stanford surgical resident. Six months later, he returned to the mainland, but with a persistent desire to live in the Hawaiian Islands. After
Poetry. Asian American Studies. In his first poetry collection, Paolo Javier overlaps life in New York with his childhood spent in Manila and Cairo and imagined senior years referred to as "The Lid To
Fiction. Leon de Winter is one of the Netherland's youngest writers and of his contemporaries the only one who can boast of an oeuvre: four novels and a collection of short stories. Born in 1954 of Je
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Environmental Studies. Noah Ross seeks to investigate a culture of media/news and its commodification of real-life tragedy, particularly as a vehicle for whiteness to main
Literary Nonfiction. The Brooklyn Rail is excited to present a two-part publication WORDS APART AND OTHERS / MESSAGE AHEAD, from Rail Editions, which celebrates the poetry and artistic legacy of pione
Poetry. African Studies. Edited by Guy Bennett. Translated by Guy Bennett, Pierre Joris, Addie Leak, and Teresa Villa-Ignacio. This bilingual edition of the selected poems of Mostafa Nissabouri brings
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Fiction. California Studies. Art. Activism. Performance Studies. "David Buuck works at the axis of performative and civic aims to make a narrative that is clarifi
Poetry. The second of David Jaffin's 2015 titles, another 400 pages-plus of minimalist lyrics. AsChicago Review said of his recent LIGHT SOURCES and LANDING RIGHTS: "Decidedly prolific bite-s
Michalis Pichler's appropriation/erasure of Max Stirner's 1844 manifesto of individual anarchism, THE EGO AND ITS OWN, explores issues of translatability/in-translatability of poetry. The chapter titl
Fiction. STORY BOOK envisions a new wave of storytelling through a series of canny narratives that swarm around the blurred edges of being. In a twisting of genres, STORY BOOK confronts the complexiti
Poetry. "If the creative task is to balance clarity and mystery, Samantha Reiser has done it. If the moral task is to weigh acts of creation against acts of destruction, Reiser knows: 'Nothin
Poetry. LOOMING by Jennifer Franklin is one of the winners of the 14th Annual Elixir Press Poetry Awards. It is a painful and beautiful book that promises redemption and light."Jennifer Frank
Fiction. California Interest. Humor. Science Fiction. Xtremus is a dystopian satire about the aftermath of a cataclysmic demise of technology that takes place in post-apocalyptic Southern California.
Fiction. Women's Studies. The terrain of east Tennessee hides many terrors: meth labs, moonshiners, and a series of brutal murders committed by a teenage girl. The law is too slow, the migrant workers
Fiction. The short stories of acclaimed playwright Madeline ffitch speak for themselves, loudly and clearly. ffitch is a fearless writer, and these eleven stories seem both magical and tethered to the
Poetry. "One way to think of OTHER ARCHER is as an expanded occasional poem. Besides gathering the elements of my own story, I hope to encourage readers to see their own life stories in poetr
Fiction. Native American Studies. Welcome to the United States of America in the 1880s: Settlers are moving west, as do the iron horses that bring them by rail…and somewhere in those vast regions of d
Poetry. Terry Phelan's second book, FIRES IN SONOMA tells the story of the dissolution of a marriage. In the famous words of William Carlos Williams, "Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time, div
Poetry. OTHER PEOPLE'S STORIES is a collection of poems in which the author describes telling moments in the lives of famous people and family members. The cast of characters ranges from American Civi
Poetry. In Bridgette Bates' WHAT IS NOT MISSING IS LIGHT, shards of history are sharpened against the imagined experience of various—crumbling, complex, disfigured, celebrated, striking—muses; some st
Fiction. An Italian soul-seeker in India encounters an antique racist toy-bank from 19th-Century America and believes it to be an incarnation of Krishna. A fertility-seeking single woman in New York's
Fiction. An Italian soul-seeker in India encounters an antique racist toy-bank from 19th-Century America and believes it to be an incarnation of Krishna. A fertility-seeking single woman in New York's
Poetry. "In THE HUNGER IN OUR EYES, Jared Demick presents poetry that traverses a rugged terrain of memory, history, agriculture, race, and culture to unearth narratives long or recently forg
Poetry. Native American Studies. Denise Low's MELANGE BLOCK maps a vivid landscape of Native American and settler lives. High Plains country, volcanic fields, wine country, and ghost towns are among t
Poetry. "The only way these poems could've existed without the glorious mind of Tim Earley is if Gertrude Stein, having found herself suddenly preaching in the deep south, punched Gerard Manley Hopkin
Fiction. Poetry. NICETIES is a subversive text of lingual dissonance in which vocality precedes sense-making operations. Its phonics disrupt narrative through syntactical atonalities."If you're weary
Poetry. Edited by Guy Bennett. Translated from the Italian by Guy Bennett, Faust Pauluzzi, and Giovanna Sandri. Bilingual Edition. This collection brings together writings that span the career of the
Poetry. The prose poems in HOW TO BE ANOTHER approach the exploration of empathy and its lack via a range of aesthetic and structural stances, from flash fiction and parable to more abstract and fragm
Poetry. WINTERWARD is the title of the 1954 creative dissertation that William Stafford wrote for his Ph.D. in English at the University of Iowa. This collection contains poems that would eventually b
