Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Juan J. Morales forthcoming book of poems, The Siren World, is a collection at once intensely personal and seemlessly universal. The poems delve into the wonders and hor
Fiction. THE BUTTERFLY first appeared in 1962 and drew on Rumaker's experiences as a patient in Rockland State Hospital and love affairs with Yoko Ono and Joyce Johnson. As Rumaker's protagonist puts
Fiction. In these eleven short stories by Gary Carr we follow a biblical-era weapons merchant with good taste in food, meet the author's self-portrait in "Chekhovian action scene." A
Poetry. Two points of reference may be useful for orienting readers to the sequence of short works that comprise Nick Hoff's first book of poetry: the poetry of Paul Celan and the cinematic long take—
Poetry. "Coming from a rogue scholar of the imagination in esoteric Islam, a book of poems should be of no surprise, but this one sure is. Tom Cheetham plunges us deep into the imaginative re
Poetry. "Not since Emily Dickinson, and William Bronk (Sherry Kearns' beloved friend and mentor) has a poet brought so much gnomic utterance and cognitive lyricism to the page. Through the gi
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Edited by Martha Collins, Kevin Prufer, and Martin Rock. "Catherine Breese Davis fills an important but unsung niche in the tradition of women's
Fiction. This collection of linked stories follows the curses of a father, visited upon the Nash family over the course of three generations, spanning the 1960's to the present. In rich, moving episod
Poetry. From summer's blonde height of swarming sunlight, through autumns gentle falling, and into the dark spell of winter of 2012, Emily Vogel both endured and reveled in the pregnancy which brought
Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Travel. This is an exploration into an obsession. THE ADULTEROUS CITIZEN contemplates the feeling of belonging, w
Poetry. Drama. Latino/Latina Studies. Native American Studies. Music. Comparative Literature. Performance Text. Translation. Set on the day that the Admiral of the Sea arrives in what would come to be
Poetry. Martin McGovern's BAD FAME muses on the perplexities and certainties of the human condition, often in soaring eulogies and searing elegies: as in "The Circle of Late Afternoon&quo
Literary Nonfiction. FURTHER CONFESSIONS OF A SMALL PRESS RACKETEER is a continuation of the columns and essays that comprised Stuart's 2005 release,Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer. Again, equa
Fiction. At times comic, tender, dark, compassionate, and arrestingly bizarre, Gary Barwin's latest fiction collection marvels at the strangeness, charm, and beauty that is contemporary life in the qu
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. LGBT Studies. OUR LADY OF THE CROSSWORD is a sexy new chapbook from award-winning author Rigoberto Gonzalez, who casts his poetic eye to such varied subjects as word puz
Poetry. "Wallen crafts a punk female poetics located in the weird slippery surface of tone. Compressed, smart and raucous, the poems shimmer as they turn language back on its strange self.&am
Poetry. Translation and translation studies. Poetry in translation is a trust exercise; reader must rely on translator to turn words into other words, while preserving the larger meaning of the origin
Poetry. Translated from the Italian by Steven Grieco. Bilingual Edition. Preface by Andrej Silkin. The title poem of the Chelsea edition,Tre fotogrammi dentro la cornice / Three Stills in a Frame, was
Poetry. Italian American Studies. "Joey Nicoletti's book, REVERSE GRAFFITI, is dotted with images from popular culture—Captain Marvel, Spider Man, the Yankees—and these images are part of the
Poetry. "Lewis Turco... appears to have combined the longevity of Utnapishtim with the energy and industry of Gilgamesh: once seized with inspiration, he wrote THE HERO ENKIDU at white heat i
Poetry. Letters. Translated from the Russian by Rawley Grau. Edited by Ilya Bernstein. It is only in the past quarter-century or so that Yevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (1800-1844) has gained wide recog
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Poised between myth and time, Philip Brady's TO BANQUET WITH THE ETHIOPIANS: A MEMOIR OF LIFE BEFORE THE ALPHABET is a sprawling, genre-defying verse epic, an auda
Poetry. "Rodger Moody's HISTORY is not just his own story. Yes, these poems tell the story of one man's life from the American mid- century on to the present moment. But they also chart the w
Fiction. Preface by Samuel R. Delany. "Deeply romantic (in the best sense) and darkly evocative, Czyz's lush style explores regions well beyond simple narrative, probing the constantly shifti
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Poised between myth and time, Philip Brady's TO BANQUET WITH THE ETHIOPIANS: A MEMOIR OF LIFE BEFORE THE ALPHABET is a sprawling, genre-defying verse epic, an auda
Poetry. "Lisa Rogal's remarkable and strikingly original poems play with form and narrative, spinning the daily quotidian of thoughts, random connections and events into gold."—Brend
Poetry. This collection of seventy poems moves through the physical and metaphysical vastness of desert canyons toward the memory of the small New England farm where the author spent his childhood, fo
Poetry. "In her astute new book, Valerie Witte investigates correspondence as both an act of communication and the prospect of communion; her poems are suffused with the necessary haunting of
Fiction. "Imagine a world where the people in it are the sum total of the big box stores they shop at, the products they buy there and whose warped world view is shaped by the televisions the
Fiction. "AFTER THE GAZEBO is a wonder: complex, compelling, beautifully told. Jen Knox writes with a deceptively quiet fierceness that will sneak up behind you and grab you by the throat, cl
Poetry. "What happens when two brilliant and sensitive minds unfettered by conventional categories brave the inter-and intra-personal depths of humanity and engage one another—and all of us—i
Poetry. The second book from Atlanta poet James Sanders, author of GOODBYE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE (BlazeVox, 2008). These are poems unlike anything you've ever seen before—visual, performative, hilarious,
Poetry. "The color, grace, music and energy that fill these pages ought to harken us (again) to Medina's mastery, for a master-poet he is."—Bill Zavatsky
Poetry. The spirits hovering around his new collection "include Philip Whalen and Erik Satie, Thelonious Monk and James Madison—maybe they have something to do with the astringent buoyancy an
Fiction. Though Joe Wilkins's new collection of short fiction set under the big Montana sky may have all the trappings of a traditional Western—long shots of sage flats and blue mountains, late nights
Poetry. African & African American Studies. WHERE I SEE THE SUN – CONTEMPORARY POETRY IN ANGUILLA gathers a bounteous bunch of voices, 43 poets intent on entering the choir that would intone a
Poetry. Film. Translated from the Russian by Philip Metres and Dimitri Psurtsev. "Tarkovsky now joins the ranks of Mandelstam, Akhmatova, and Brodksky. Philip Metres and Dimitri Psurtsev's tr
Poetry. "In THE SKY'S DUSTBIN, vibrant details lead us easily into something that's part magical realism, part magic for realists. Everyday events read like parables here, though, as in life,
Poetry. GOOD BEAST terrifies, its poems possess air-like clarity. They are vast and mostly invisible. Roberts turns away from narrative in search of the moment and the emotion, which he has the abilit
Poetry. From the opening poem, "…mumbling in the/attic 'roof' out there, mud beyond my head…", this revised and definitive 2nd edition of John M. Bennett's classic LA M AL confirms i
