Poetry. THE COLLECTED POEMS OF JARED SMITH: 1971-2011 brings together almost 300 poems from 9 books along with over 60 poems that were previously uncollected. After earning degrees in poetry and liter
Poetry. Translated from the Swedish by John F. Deane. John F. Deane's translation of Tomas Transtromer's 1989 collection FOR THE LIVING AND THE DEAD (For levande och doda) originally appeared with The
Poetry. Drawings by Paul Blake. Originally published in 1977 by Good Gay Poets of Boston. "A book whose page has come. ruth weiss has been sounding these poems, alone or with jazz accompaniment, for m
Poetry. "Mac Wellman's new collection of poetry is so singular, so original that there is no one writing poetry today quite like him. His fanciful, satirical world is filled with addresses to magical
Poetry. The poems in Judy Halebsky's SPACE/GAP/INTERVAL/DISTANCE, winner of the Sixteen Rivers Press 2011 Poets-Under-Forty Chapbook Contest, combine memory and depth of feeling with luminous observat
Poetry. In Samuel Amadon's intense, second collection, a sequence of meditative and darkly comic postmodern narratives about what it is like to be from Hartford, Connecticut, we stagger with the speak
Poetry. Written in the first years of the poet's marriage, inspired by a magical yard belonging to her and her husband's first apartment, the poems in Barbara Blatner's new book, LIVING WITH YOU, expl
Poetry. "With PLUNGE, Alice Jones brilliantly and with beautiful tact revives the art of menippean satire. In our disfigured state, she finds somehow surviving vivid emblems of our moral nature and br
Poetry. HALLELUJAH, GIANT SPACE WOLF offers both an irreverent and sincere exploration of desperation and hope. Bailey's poems pair the personal with the mythical and traverse many linguistic quadrant
Poetry. As one of the most exciting new voices in American poetry, Zachary Schomburg's previous books have enthralled thousands of readers with surreal landscapes populated by gorillas in people cloth
Poetry. "What does it mean to be a used white wife, a mother, a tragic girl writing poems? Sandra Simonds gets into these messy words and then tears them apart. Sometimes with the words of others. And
Poetry. "Thomas Patrick Levy's poems evoke a darkly lit American otherworld filled with withering cornstalks, rusted tractors and pulsating shadows. The narrator of these poems is an amorphous Nowhere
Fiction. With THE BARCLAY FAMILY THEATRE, his second collection of short stories, Jack Hodgins introduces us to a cast of characters who transform the everyday world of Vancouver Island into a wondrou
Poetry. Jewish Studies. "In his Foreword to this astonishing book, Henry Weinfield calls the prophet Elijah 'one of the most daemonic and uncanny figures in literature.' And with these poems, Weinfiel
Poetry. "Drastic Dislocations" is the title poem of the section of new poems in DRASTIC DISLOCATIONS, and this title is consistent with many of his concerns registered in the poetry he began writing i
Poetry. Lily Ladewig's THE SILHOUETTES explores autonomy, bodies, femininity, romance and vulnerability with humor and an acute sensitivity to a world constructed by image and text. In the world of TH
Fiction. Edited with an Afterword by Michael Boughn. Primarily known as a poet, H.D. was also a prolific prose writer. In fact her writing career began with the publication of children's stories in Su
Fiction. Art. SISTER STOP BREATHING is Chiara Barzini's debut collection of short fictions (with color art by Cal A. Mari). Gary Shteyngart described it as: "The best thing to come out of Italy since
Poetry. Pamela Porter's poems celebrate a world awaiting discovery. She opens this new collection with a poem entitled "An Offering" in which she brings to the ceremony "poems / for every season—of dr
Poetry. The dark and bright of what it means to be human: McCabe examines this remorselessly, tenderly, and with a grain of "Sel," a thread of humor. PERPETUAL MOTION investigates who we are in a voic
Poetry. "These rich, fluent poems tell the story of a writer's pilgrimage. They are filled with the colors and vibrancy of her world, a world that includes Key West, England, Paris and, of course, lit
Poetry. Equine anatomy fills the room, a muzzle at the edge of the rug.Julia Johnson's THE FALLING HORSE is concerned with what is missing, misplaced, lost, fallen, and found.
Poetry. "A triple play. Brian Lucas—painter, poet, musician—eye, heart, mind. Written with a sense of unfolding mystery, his voice on the page is sure in its tone, the ongoing quest and questioning is
Fiction. Fortieth anniversary edition with a new preface by the author. A best-selling book and award-winning film and television series, THE PAPER CHASE is at its heart the story of a young Midwester
Iceberg is the definitive apocalyptic feel-good novel from Paul Kavanagh, the mind that bludgeoned readers with The Killing of a Bank Manager. Iceberg centres around Don and Phoebe, a na ve yet loveab
Poetry. THE GNAT'S WINDOW consists of textual-visual poems, based on the form of a window with words in it hovering over a mantric text-block. Highly innovative poetry that can be read in many directi
Poetry. "Picasso said that whenever he painted there might not be an object, but there was the fragrance of an object. In DISSOLVES, Joseph Donahue combines something like an object with something lik
Poetry. Translated from the Romanian by many hands. Edited by Paul Doru Mugar with Adam J. Sorkin and Claudia Serea. "The poetry included in this volume reflects the alienation and the crisis of commu
Poetry. "Madeline Tiger explores the powerlessness and the strength of girlhood with scrupulous attention to detail. In FROM THE VIEWING STAND she is the child observer, bewildered and sometimes hurt
Poetry. LGBT Studies. Asian American Studies. "R. Zamora Linmark's extraordinary DRIVE-BY VIGILS takes readers on a high-speed chase to the heart of 'today's madness,' where Manila intersects with Hol
Fiction. LGBT Studies. Jewish Studies. How does a straight American soldier with a girl back home return from a tour of duty in Iceland with The Works of Oscar Wilde as his most cherished souvenir? Th
Poetry. THE BOUNTY: FOUR ADDRESSES begins with the assumption that each human has a price on their head—the same price. Rushes and crystallizations of language probe our potential to do harm, or to lo
Poetry. Susan M. Schultz's MEMORY CARDS—prose poems composed to fit on an index card, each beginning with a randomly chosen line from a book by the poet for whom each of the nine sections is named—gen
Fiction. Asian American Studies. THE LONG ROAD HOME is the story of three generations of women, beginning with a grandmother who as a young woman went to China as a Canadian missionary nurse and fell
Poetry. Translated from the German by Nicholas Grindell. With linguistic sophistication and a great deal of self-irony and humor, Rinck sets in tension the most disparate ideas "along with their margi
Poetry. This winner of the 2011 Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Contest will delight everyone who enjoys poetry. Written with a flair for language, a unique way of looking at the natural world, and a compa
Poetry. GRACE SILVER is a multivocal meditation on violence, trauma, loss and renewal, which wrestles with the seeming incommunicability of extreme experiences and the possibility that, as Heidegger s
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "In both the historical and popular imagination of outlaw culture, the pirate occupies a central place as a swashbuckling, rogue seafarer driven by banditry and greed for treasur
Drama. Music. Opera. This innovative opera was developed and performed in the 1980s, widely praised internationally, and reviewed. This book is the first publication of the entire libretto, with an af
JRGEN LETH is one of Denmarks foremost modern poets and a leading international filmmaker. Poems and films: two sides of his extensive ouevre, intricately interwoven. Films like The Perfect Human, pla
