Poetry. "In this debut from a grownup poet, heartfelt scenes are filmed by a jittery cameraman, making for a moving read that will appeal to those who don't take their poetry quite straight,
Fiction. Iver Arnegard's debut short fiction collection takes us into the desolate landscape of the Northern Plains and Western states, where man is but another animal seeking sustenance. The hardscra
Poetry. The majority of the poems in HYMNS AND ESSAYS, Stuart Krimko's third collection, employ almost sickly sequences of rhyming couplets as they dance through theological meditations, rage-filled r
Literary Nonfiction. Ann Lauterbach considers the animated, elastic relation between what is given and what is chosen through the lens of art, critical thinking and her own experience as a poet. More
Poetry. "Michael Heller has one of the most distinctive voices to be found in contemporary poetry. WORDFLOW: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS showcases a major talent that will engage the readers mind
Poetry. Edited by Katy Bohinc, with contributions from: Bernadette Mayer, Shanna Compton, Brenda Coultas, Dodie Bellamy, Carole Wagner Greenwood, Jen Hofer, Sophie Seita, Hoa Nguyen, Julie Patton, Kyr
Poetry. THE INFATUATIONS AND INFIDELITIES OF PRONOUNS, a series of sonnets after Shakespeare, won Bright Hill Press's Poetry Chapbook competition. "Christopher Bursk is our supreme poet of adolescent
Poetry. These are two poems in one volume by one of the leading French poets of the new generation whose work is now becoming known in the U.S. This volume is translated by Ray DiPalma and Juliette Va
Nonfiction. Literary Criticism. For many years now theater directors have argued about how to present Shakespeare's The Tempest. Originally, the play was seen as Prospero's use of magic to reclaim his
Fiction. "...LOOK BUSY serves up a series of micro-stories that exist somewhere between the whimsical and the jaded—as though the plays of Sarah Ruhl had swallowed the stories of Lydia Davis.
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. "I appreciate Blazek's surprising sinuosities, both lyrical and thoughtful. They are voyages and romances, prestidigitations and orisons, providing all the transformative energy that I wo
Poetry. HALLELUJAH, GIANT SPACE WOLF offers both an irreverent and sincere exploration of desperation and hope. Bailey's poems pair the personal with the mythical and traverse many linguistic quadrant
Poetry. Cynthia Marie Hoffman's poetry chapbook explores memory, family history, loss, and selfhood through a hypnotic and airtight series of prose poems whose focus and singularity bloom from every p
These poems refigure both the "wolf" and the "cento" as they interrogate the possibilities, limits, and interplay of language, the human animal, and poetic homage. Trace looks fiercely into the darkne
Fiction. Fantastical and disquieting, yet utterly familiar and human in their strangeness, the six short tales in Blake Kimzey's FAMILIES AMONG US introduce us to the work of a wildly imaginative and
Poetry. Asian Studies. Translated from the Korean by Scott Swaner and Young-Jun Lee. Hwang Jiwoo's poems are built of odd juxtapositions and comparisons, like a mother's hospital crisis and "the Veron
Poetry. "Tim Atkins does for translation what Gertrude Stein did for nouns. He's turned Horace inside out, and booby-trapped the works with strategically explosive pregnant shock and awe. Pope and Dry
Fiction. The year is 2212, the weather is out of control, and Seattle is being rebuilt with electricity generated from negative human emotion. In a strange and turbulent world fueled by secrecy and vo
Sanketown tells of a ploace that captivates and holds hostage, a place hermitle and congoniral like the families that populare it. It tells the story of heredity and tragedy, how evil can magnerize as
Poetry. Deborah Flanagan's prizewinning new chapbook is populated by a menagerie of historic personages—celebrities and scientists, political and artistic luminaries, including George Washington, Houd
Poetry. Translated from the French by Brian Evenson and Joanna Howard. "A compendium of aphoristic passages, a flipbook of presences and absences, an exquisitely minimalist travelogue-cum-commonplace
Poetry. "Each of these poems attends the 'dimension in a street' and the variation found there, below the 'billboard's traffic stream' and otherwise ubiquitous capitalist referentiality"--Kristen Gall
Poetry. African American Studies. Gladman wields an idiosyncratic skill with description and characters that has drawn praise and attention from her contemporaries. JUICE describes a world where seemi
Native American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. Trilingual Edition in Nahuatl, Spanish and English. NAHUALLIANDOING DOS: AN ANTHLOGOY IN NAHUATL, ESPANOL AND ENGLISH includes 28 poems by 19 poets from
Poetry. In HEIRLOOM BULLDOG, animals seize their freedom and defend their homes. Pet-trade escapees thrive. Nile monitor lizards prowl public beaches and Burmese pythons feast on panthers in the Everg
Fiction. Translated from the French by Joanna Howard and Nicholas Bredie. "The cow is perhaps an unlikely hero (ine), but through a subtle blend of rumination, imagination, and compassion, Frédér
Nonfiction. Literary Criticism. In this 2010 Grand River Forum Lecture, Ted Chamberlin describes how stories give shape and substance to the things we believe in, from scientific theories and sacred t
Poetry. Matt Shears's new chapbook of poems, 10,000 WALLPAPERS, is a phenomenal hybrid that borrows from many genres and operates on many levels. It's fun, experimental, mythic, mealy-mouthed and unpr
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "In both the historical and popular imagination of outlaw culture, the pirate occupies a central place as a swashbuckling, rogue seafarer driven by banditry and greed for treasur
Poetry. "Gil Fagiani's muse is Italian American memory. These are poems of origins and belonging, of family, culture, politics. These are recollections, both elegiac and ironic, of a world Gil Fagiani
Poetry. "In these intensely female, lively luscious songs it's Colette meets Beyonce meets Lil Mama meets Cixous and in comes Kristeva meets Molly Bendall meets Gail Wronsky, and therefore streams con
Poetry. Michael McClure has published over thirty books, wrote Janis Joplin's hit song "Mercedes Benz," overcame censorship with his play THE BEARD, and performed and recorded his poetry with piano im
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. Revised and reissued in 2015, originally published by Belladonna* in 2006. In this book, which begins with a love poem and is encas
Poetry. Visual Art. "VIA DISSIMULATA is a hauntingly beautiful collection of deep truths and abstract emotions. Be prepared to feel feelings. Take your time. Meditate on every word and image.
