Poetry. "The inspiration for ROMAN EXERCISES stems from my reading of Bertolt Brecht'sManual of Piety. It is an ancient impulse. His work may be thought of as a set of 'exercises' for respons
Poetry. Art. BINDLE collects several series of text-image works by artist Dianne Kornberg and poet Elisabeth Frost, created over a six-year period of intensive collaboration. BINDLE explores the natur
Fiction. Robert's two protagonists flawlessly portray the immutable bonds of friendship, relationships that survive decades, and the collapse of families and societies. Robert captures the silent help
Poetry. Jacob Smullyan's DRIBBLE, a cycle of 144 poems written in 1983, sets itself the task of exploring a peculiar, seemingly unpromising corner of poetic space. Its apparent subject matter is the g
Poetry. "Preverbs are not so much assertions as events. Read on the page or, better yet, spoken, each of Quasha's lines is an occasion for becoming aware of meaning in the making. Releasing words
Poetry. "'Isn't intimacy the thin ice / of address?,' asks Stephen Miller's endlessly jaunty and energetic narrator. And he adds, 'I mean if we become one another.' Throughout this irrepressible
Poetry. "This is a poet unafraid of being understood, who will not hide behind decorativeness or the oblique. Read these poems aloud and you will hear an authentic and quintessentially Americ
Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Turning seventy, Thomas Farber appraises the writing life, aging, love, his own fate, and ours. In this spare, elegant volume he takes the measure of both his vocation and
Fiction. Twenty-one new authors evoke the painful and beautiful realities of life. Whether the struggles of a recent immigrant to support his family, a young daughter dealing with her mother's mental
Poetry. The poems in AMERICAN GRAMOPHONE are menacing—spiked with hazards, threats, warnings and spells—yet the contained lines and composed forms temper the peril with delicacy: a pin curl in the pal
Poetry. Travel Writing. Taking cues from a myriad of short forms—haiku, epigram, bon mot, aphorism, senryu—the poems in Joe Pan's HICCUPS search out unexpected ways to document events in transition. H
Poetry. "With unflinching stanzas threaded through with grief's relentless lyric, THE DAUGHTER'S ALMANAC is a masterwork, a deftly crafted illustration of the myriad ways beauty collides with
Poetry. The voice of poet John Tynan in these VOICE LESSONS has a natural beauty all its own that is both an innate gift and a moral, as well as technical, achievement: fresh, unspoiled, casual and ye
Fiction. Translated from the Ukrainian by Vitaly Chernetsky. In the 1990s, Karl-Joseph Zumbrunnen, an Austrian photographer with Galician roots, travels repeatedly through Ukraine. The chaos of the tr
Poetry. Translated from the Italian, edited, and introduced by Sean Mark. Bilingual Edition. Selected poems from 1969-2014. In his introduction to the experimental Italian poet Antonio Sagredo, transl
Fiction. Jewish Studies. Winegarden recounts episodes in the life of Jacob Winegarden, an agnostic Jewish professor of theoretical physics whose speciality is 'thought experimentation.'A burly, vague,
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Art. Aesthetics. From 2005-2013, the TrenchArt book series was the cornerstone of Les Figues Press. The series took its name from "trench art"—artistic c
Poetry. Fiction. With collages by the author. Doren Robbins' unique voice of existential disgust and cynicism comes through in a relentless damning of our culture, politics and state of being. And yet
Fiction. Music. Science Fiction. Winner of the 37th Annual 3-Day Novel Contest! Paul is a young physics professor at a major university. Paul is drawn to Leonard Zavitsky, a once- promising but now wa
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. In EVENING ORACLE, Brandon Shimoda encounters shadows, specters, and women—young and old, living and undead—and finds himself standing in a graveyard in the middle of a ri
Poetry. "Matvei Yankelevich is a fabulist. In his excellent new book he is singing 'a world in a flash of contours.' The voice is dynamic, and performs in a syncretic register: lyric, narrati
Poetry. Translated from the Dutch by Jacquelyn Pope. The first major collection of Hester Knibbe's work to be published in English, HUNGERPOTS brings together a selection of poems displaying the range
Fiction. Women's Studies. "Joanna Walsh's haunting and unforgettable stories enact a literal vertigo—the feeling that if I fall I will fall not toward the earth but into space—by probing the
Fiction. Women's Studies. Translated from the German by Adrian Nathan West. THE WEIGHT OF THINGS is the first book, and the first translated book, and possibly the only translatable book by Austrian w
Poetry. THE LOCUST DIAGRAMS is based on a month-long sequence of dreams.--I would be in some mesmerizing place like Times Square, or an Old World manor house, or a library of famous authors, and then
Poetry. "Danielle Deulen borrows the title of Montaigne's essay for her extraordinary poetry book OUR EMOTIONS GET CARRIED AWAY BEYOND US. Both philosophical and anecdotal, Deulen's poems are sli
Poetry. "Lesley Wheeler's new volume of poems, RADIOLAND, spellbinds with the gorgeous sounds of its poetry: 'Drag belly over gravel on a cave-lip / into the TV and sleep in it,' one poem opens.
Drama. It's Labor Day weekend at the Trailerville Mobile Home Park in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. Merdelle Harris's husband of forty-one years is rapidly deteriorating with Alzheimer's. She is determi
DEEP CITY renders the city and the body as architectures in crisis. The poems explore the city and suburbs as container and contents of collective memory and investigate how space shapes the body/ how
Poetry. "BECOMING AN ANCESTOR carries us from the very beginning of this great clock-universe through human migrations to the bitter end, where however a horned lark is singing beside a field of
Poetry. "'Remember this,' the poet tells himself as he races his 'little girl': 'what is a memory that anticipates itself / a recollection / that becomes / the ground on which the present plays.'
Poetry. Gutsy, irreverent, and tender, Nicole Santalucia is a poet of risk. In BECAUSE I DID NOT DIE, she peels away the protective layers behind which she could hide, and, instead, shows us the vulne
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. THE REVOLVING CITY: 51 POEMS AND THE STORIES BEHIND THEM is a vibrant and diverse collection from a who's who of the west coast poetry scene.The poems assembled here range
Literary Nonfiction. Literary Criticism. Essays. Poetry. Winner of the 2015 Poetry Foundation's Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. THIS DIALOGUE OF ONE collects thirteen essays on English, French and
Poetry. Keeping vigil through the night in the realm of the Terra Lucida, which, according to Islamic scholar Henry Corbin, is "the land that secretes its own light," Joseph Donahue'
In LET THE GAMES BEGIN, Peter Valente has borrowed, sampled, excised, and rearranged the canon of Greek and Latin letters to consolidate the extremes which that literature is famous for. Life was just
Poetry. Tangling the language of social-scientific investigations of rape, media constructions of perpetrators and victims, and autobiographical memory, DISTANCE DECAY moves through that linguistic (a
Fiction. Flash Fiction. GIRL POWER traces the lives of women from growing pains to achy joints, creating a collage of stories that speak to the challenges, heartbreaks, joys, fears, and wonders of the
