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
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. In his second full-length collection, poet Christopher Goodrich explores the intricacies and intimacies of sex, marriage, and fatherhood. At times, funny and endearing, dark and devastating, h
Poetry. "Victoria Anderson is a poet who searches for signs and portents, warnings and prophecies, harbingers and clues. The wry, deftly crafted poems in VORTICITY travel through time and across cultu
Literary Nonfiction. American History and Tourism. The selections discussed and reprinted here are drawn from travel books and commentaries on the Ottoman Empire written by Americans and published bet
Poetry. "THE MIDDLE is beautiful and powerful—Angela Hume's line breaks are beautiful and powerful—her pages are beautiful and powerful—and all that grace animates calm outrage, ghostlier awareness ('
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. Native American Studies. Oscillating between alienation and wholeness, OTHER SUNS carves a path between light and darkness, grief and continuance. From the edges of violence and doubt to "ridi
Poetry. Alan Gilbert's much anticipated debut threads desire and loss, image and consumption, memory and hope through a dystopian landscape of war, ecological disaster, and the ruins of empire. As in
Poetry. LIKE VAPOR reminds us how poetry transcends the individual and the common place with poems that are narrative and lyrical. Friedler's imagery and music show her tenderness and compassion. She
Poetry. "Allows observation, love, memory, confusion, and explanation to intermix and play"--Juliana Spahr. "Regions of cultural conflict and reconnection...the syntax that delves there is sincere and
Poetry. UNRAVEL addresses our universal experiences of time and place, and how those places shape who and what we are. UNRAVEL challenges our sometimes-complacent perceptions and justifies what we all
Poetry. Composed of poems, prose segments, and visual pieces, this remarkable first book is both formal and colloquial, fluid and hard-edge, with the diction riffing between Biblical and Dylanesque. A
Fiction. Etel Adnan's novel "PARIS, WHEN IT'S NAKED amazes our retinas, ears, lips, fingertips, and noses with sensing, talking, and envisioning the city of Baudelaire and Delacroix, Mallarme and Pica
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
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
