Poetry. "Marjorie Keyishian doesn't write about anything special. Just wind and water, trees and sky, birds and fish, family and friends, day and night, life and death. Just what matters most
Poetry. "One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and cliche-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and about to go to sleep, is because there aren't a thousand Tom Clarks. If I were wri
Poetry. Joe Hall and Chad Hardy's THE CONTAINER STORE explores the construction, implementation, and erosion of economic and social authority, commodity, and corporeality. As both found and original l
Poetry. African American Studies. BLACK PECULIAR sketches out power dynamics and faulty assumptions in terms of race and history, media and culture, and sex and gender in highly original lines of vers
Poetry. In TEXASES, his fifth collection of poems, John Poch offers readers a kaleidoscope through which to view his home state--its geography and people, its past and present. Here is a mix of forms
Fiction. Epistolary. Memoir. Disability Studies. THE BOOK OF SCAB is a lyrical, epistolary fiction/memoir written from the disabled artifact's perspective, unraveling the abjection of youth and its po
Poetry. Women's Studies. LONDON UNDERCURRENTS is a collaboration by two London-based female poets Joolz Sparkes and Hilaire. This poetry cycle gives a voice to women who often go unheard, or are self-
Poetry. "This book ripped me the hell open. I felt like these poems written with dirt, bones, blood, and rust were my own forgotten memories that came rushing back into my wound. Sometimes I was afrai
Poetry. Fiction. Drama. An anthology drawn from the feminist reading series of the same name, the I SCREAM SOCIAL anthology features poetry, prose, and drama by 45 visionary women writers that have be
Poetry. Women's Studies. Aja Moore's debut collection of poetry is awash in sincerity and the ways in which we simultaneously crave, doubt, avoid, and totally disparage it. HOTWHEEL, in turn, reveals
Poetry. "Personal, dark and really interesting poems, made in 'conceptual' framework--and there are words of others--turned into what happened to oneself. Very good ear here, and place, and descriptio
Literary Nonfiction. Translated from the German by James J. Conway. Where do we feel at home? What do our cities look like? How do we see? In 1908, architect and theorist August Endell set out to answ
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Laura Buccieri observes, confronts, and explores queer womanhood in her collection ON BEING MISTAKEN. Buccieri writes, "i am the only thing i will carry," but she manages to n
Poetry. African & African American Studies. "And, of course, a natural inquiry is made: whose children will you be mourning as you still love? How many can you mourn all at once and is there an en
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Jason Phoebe Rusch is a queer writer from the Chicago suburbs. His full-length debut DUALITIES explores gender and patriarchy from the perspective of a man who was socialized
Poetry. Native American Studies. "In ELECTRIC SNAKES, Adrian C. Louis's thirteenth poetry collection, no one is spared his critical eye, including himself. These powerful and often humorous poems cove
Poetry. Women's Studies. The poems in this collection move into the past with her mother and father and also explore the present both with family and culture. The poems range in quick flourishes of co
Poetry. Women's Studies. Art. Film. Music. A 400-page collection of poems in fours sections: Nicki Minaj Songs, Bob Dylan Songs, Elliott Smith Songs, and 90s Riot Grrrls Songs.
Fiction. Short Stories. A set of linked stories with some of the same characters from PERSO and a lot of new ones and the world is the same but different from the world in PERSO and the stories
Poetry. Women's Studies. In STUNT HEART, Mary Jo Thompson's debut collection, a female gaze locates the ironies inside the subjects of marriage and death, loneliness and love, speaking and silence. Th
Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. The original 2012 essay collection, redesigned and with four new essays by the author.LEGS GET LED ASTRAY is a provocative collection of essays t
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. "My desire is to erase boundaries,' says Wellman, and in many ways, this book is an exploration of how language can aid that project. Based in consideration of translation
Poetry. Fiction. "For close to 20 years I've been reading in manuscript and in small published batches Michael Franco's ongoing field of activity: A BOOK OF MEASURE. How wonderful to have VOLUME ONE i
Poetry. "VANISHING ACTS is an astounding, yet oddly casual and unselfconscious, achievement. In a dark land beyond death, a cast of characters—including a one- eyed boy, a mute girl, carnival performe
Poetry. Fiction. "KINGDOM COME is a big, imaginative feast for the senses, wry with humor and sizzling with sexuality. Liu's immersive style, each sentence a bracing plunge into a liquefied language,
Fiction. A novel/"autofiction" about the complexities of being a woman, an artist, a mother, and a wife; a novel about persona and obsession and loyalty and repression; an exorcism.Told in four volume
Fiction. Nikole Swensen has the drive and raw talent to compete in the rigorous sport of horse eventing—and win. But fear holds her back from realizing her full potential. So her husband, a wealthy Ve
Fiction. Women's Studies. LGBT Studies. "Very smart, very funny. Kathy Anderson's collection, BULL AND OTHER STORIES, reminds us that the essential story-telling element is voice, and hers scream
Literary Nonfiction. Architecture. Social History. Photography. Essays by Caroline Adderson, Eve Lazarus, Kerry Gold, John Atkin, John Mackie, and Elise and Stephen Partridge, with photographs by Trac
Fiction. Native American Studies. Jackalope in Denise Low's trickster stories is a 21st century figure as real as Bigfoot. Part antelope and part rabbit, this denizen of the grasslands has a Twitter a
Literary Nonfiction. The most brilliant writers occasionally stumble with grammar and punctuation, and the rest of us can learn from their missteps. THE GOTHAM GRAMMARIAN is a book of rules and guidel
Poetry. Swinging between examination and revelation, Hannah Brooks-Motl's second collection of poems, M, holds a unique place in contemporary poetry, written almost as a document to chart the act of a
Poetry. "Tony Iantosca's sentences sharpen all the senses at once; the heard world is as present as the seen and touched. There are rumors of Ted Greenwald and Joseph Ceravolo in these poems.
Fiction. By turns terrifying and humorous, clear-eyed and deep- hearted, TWISTER (Black Lawrence Press, 2015) brings us into the center of a storm as a small Midwestern town mourns the death of a youn
Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. HOOK: A MEMOIR is a gripping story of transformation. Without excuse or indulgence, author and educator Randall
Fiction. Ten Women is George Bowering's brand new collection of short fiction. Each of these stories offers us a portrait of a woman with whom he may or may not have had either an intimate and/or a me
Poetry. LGBT Studies. Navigating the subtle ways language (con)forms the body, LEVITATIONS spans childhood, community, and love to explore how we might break free from the cultural demands of normalcy
Poetry. Translated from the Spanish by Anthony Seidman and David Shook. Introduced by Jorge Ortega. Bilingual Edition. "I feel that poetry," Salvador Novo confesses in a poem fromEsp
Poetry. Brian Henry takes the blank, desolate canvas of snow and searches "for a river of color buried." With calm precision he sways from physical to abstract, from stasis to motion. The ba
Poetry. By means of a dissonant fluidity and form PARSIVAL conveys its readers along by now familiar trajectories: power, knowledge, absurdity, oppression, aporia, horror and uncertainty that comprise
