California Interest. Art. Music. CROSSED PATHS: DESPERATION SQUAD AND THE AGE OF FORTUITISM is an exploration and documentation of a slice of the underground art and music scene in the Pomona Valley o
Poetry. "Jill Koren's poems beautifully explore how we come to know our deeper selves and 'a blood-and-lust music [that] refuses to be contained.' The desire to hear these deeper rhythms lies
Poetry. Art. KRAZY is a book of visual poems in the international avant-grade "concrete poetry" tradition, with radical re- arrangements of black words and letters on white pages, ac
Poetry. Michael Ives' witty, powerful and challenging poems have been anthologized in numerous American journals and magazines. His work has the unmistakable quality of a true poet at work; Wavetable
Poetry. The Red Dress is a series of deliciously poised, witty, often amorous poems by Billie Chernicoff, a poet who has received the highest praise from her fellow-poets and readers alike."T
Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. From multidisciplinary artist and author Jacob Wren comes a small book of big ideas. Originally produced as a 'Boondoggle Book' limited edition specifically for the first
Poetry. Art. Latino/Latina Studies. Dedicated and addressed to the poet's grandfather, A CROWN FOR GUMECINDO is a heroic crown of sonnets that chronicles the first year of grief experienced due to the
Poetry. In her compelling debut poetry collection, shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award, Melissa Bull explores the familial, romantic, and sexual ties that bind lives to cities. RUE takes us thro
Literary Nonfiction. Biography. History. Never before have as many outrageous and out-sized characters appeared in one place at the same time. Words like rogues, rascals, rapscallions, reprobates and
Fiction. Young Adult. In summer 2012, sonar scanning found a submerged vessel in the Canadian province of Labrador believed to be a WWII German U-boat. From this find grew Bill Bunn's teen adventure,
Poetry. ALIEN ABDUCTION is Lewis Warsh's first full-length collection of poems since INSEPARABLE (2008). Warsh extends his exploration of the way fragments of thought and feeling and experience come t
Fiction. Rose Dubois and Julie O'Brien find themselves on the roof of a Montreal apartment building on a scorching summer's day, and from that moment on their fates are intertwined. Worldwide climate
Fiction. Dwight Eliot was born on a baseball diamond, during a dugout- clearing brawl between his hometown team, The Seep Selects, and a team of barnstorming Cuban All Stars. Decades later, when he se
Fiction. FOREIGN PARK situates itself in an epoch where prior assurances of the natural world's solidity begin to slip. Poisons enter the Fraser River Basin. An oil slick approaches by night engulfing
Poetry. "It's as though his poetry takes us to the forest in Lars von Trier'sAnti-Christ, where it's filmed, but then suddenly we find ourselves standing in front of a vanished movie theatre
Fiction. Wallflower-turned-journalist Bryn Thompson has a dream job: she interviews rock stars. Bryn's professionalism keeps her on track, but also emotionally removed from the gritty world of back st
Poetry. "'What if I won't find what I expect when I open this?' is one of the first lines in Lee Upton's excellent new book, BOTTLE THE BOTTLES THE BOTTLES THE BOTTLES. It's the perfect salut
Poetry. With art by Aaron Cardella. "'The glass of water / on the table is / what's possible,' observes Broc Rossell, 'a little / flood / of elegance, / a recital.' The same could be said of
Fiction. Do we call TOUGHLAHOMA the satire we all deserve, a monstrously true fable of the late days of capitalism? We could say, for instance, that TOUGHLAHOMA crosses Vico's early sociological theor
Poetry. Art. THE GROUND I STAND ON IS NOT MY GROUND has been selected by Forrest Gander as the winner of Drunken Boat's 2014 poetry book contest. The book will be out in print and as an ebook in April
Poetry. "In my father's house are many mansions," Jesus promised. In her deftly-aimed, disarmingly poised debut, Nikki Wallschlaeger leads us phrase by phrase through the many dim an
Lay the pieces of languaged life of your, next to one another, they were moved from, they moved, me. If I don't misunderstand you, KLG, you are coding these pieces of languaged, life, as poetry. It is
Poetry. African American Studies. "I love these poems by Morgan Parker. They tell everything exactly like it is, and they don't let us off the hook—about how we run this country, about race,
Poetry. LIFE-LIST is a meditation on memory, love, and grief organized through the language of birding. From a fluttering first kiss to the frantic flapping of the last captive passenger pigeon on Ear
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "The poems of Kevin McLellan's highly accomplished first collection are haunting and elliptical but never oblique or encoded. Lightning flashes of insight, memory, elegy
Poetry. "Doug Anderson's HORSE MEDICINE has grit and laughter as its main ingredients. We follow the compass needle to wherever it points, and before we realize it, we have crossed numerous b
Poetry. "What does it mean to be a poet in the age of smartphones, big data, and microblogs? Sarah Mangold returns us to an earlier disorienting era—of gramophones, manual typewriters, and ha
Poetry. In ON HOURS, his second stunning collection, Marc Rahe reveals himself as an occasionally grave and often humorous master of observation whose poems note the natural in the mechanical and the
Poetry. "This is a masterful, stunning collection—sharp, lyrical, wise, tender—a testament to the transformative project of poetry."—Carol Potter"In Missy-Marie Montgomery's
Poetry. Carefully edited by his friends, Clark Coolidge and Craig Watson, the COLLECTED POEMS includes all of Michael Gizzi's books, and more than 100 pages of unpublished poetry covering the years 19
Poetry. Carefully edited by his friends, Clark Coolidge and Craig Watson, the COLLECTED POEMS includes all of Michael Gizzi's books, and more than 100 pages of unpublished poetry covering the years 19
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "VALLEY FEVER continues the strange, unsettling pilgrimage Julia Bloch began in her first full-length book, the Lambda finalist LETTERS TO KELLY CLARKSON. It's the Centr
Fiction. Poetry. Nick Ripatrazone writes the kind of stories that sneak up on you as they build quietly and relentlessly to their explosive ends. Moving with dark, deliberate energy, Ripatrazone's wor
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Bibliography. Small Press Publishing. Preface by Robert Bly. THE ODIN HOUSE HARVEST: AN ANALYTICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PUBLICATIONS OF ROBERT BLY'S FIFTIES, SIXTIES, SEVEN
Poetry. The poems in MODERN LOVE & OTHER MYTHS explore, as Elizabeth Bishop phrased it, "efforts of affection" in our contemporary world. Sutphen's appraisals—both personal a
Poetry. In SPEAK, MOTHER, Freya Manfred explores the mystery of dreams, love, and longing, as well as the power of loneliness, illness, fear, and death. In these lyrical, intuitive, and daring poems s
Poetry. "Thomas R. Smith's new collection, THE GLORY, serves many glories—those of the natural world, of the American democratic dream, and of various individuals who do us all credit. His st
Poetry. Without naming a specific loss, the poet invites her readers to participate in the shared experience of loss—the destabilization when grief overwhelms us, the struggle to express the inexpress
Poetry. With photography by Joan Scott. Claire Scott's great accomplishment is in knowing how to make poetry out of every part of her life. She's patient enough to hold opposites to the breaking point
Poetry. "Reading Barbara Henning's poems is always completely refreshing. Perhaps it has to do with that "swerve" between the bumpy pavement under the bicycle wheel and the
