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Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit
Goldbach’s conservative childhood was mine, and even if it's not yours, it provides a lesson...
$14.99The Blessing
Instead, he writes, “my beginning of trauma and violence led me on to a lifetime...
$15.00Try to Get Lost
Frank pays affecting tribute to the lives of her mother and sister, both now gone,...
$19.9550 Miles
It’s lyrical, textured, natural, and unexpected. While the form these essays take are varied in...
$17.00A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World
Over the course of ten essays, Rember delivers a withering, if darkly humorous, diagnosis of...
$24.95Stamford ’76
If one remains open during the excavation process, it is possible to dredge up unexpected,...
$19.95Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
The softness with which Renkl delivers the atrocities of life makes the joys of life...
$24.00The Unnamable Present
Central to the current crisis is a sense of instability and fragmentation inaugurated by mass...
$26.00Hearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place
Take a moment to consider the word “hearth.” Does it make you think of the...
$18.00Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship
This quietly devastating “book of friendship,” as the text is subtitled, both flies and lives...
$16.00Lyric Multiples: Aspiration, Practice, Immanence, Migration
Of course, Albon is not building cities. He is writing poems. The same physics don’t...
$19.95Running Home
What Arnold’s memoir is really about, however, is family. The running is secondary, an access...
$27.00Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
She marshals scientific, intellectual, literary, and journalistic resources to document how climate change has impacted...
$16.00The Darkness Call: Essays
As a collagist, Fincke's medium is the paragraph, each seldom exceeding a dozen lines, demarcated...
$20.00Adiós to My Parents
Aguilar Camín varnishes his sentences with great perceptiveness and lyrical grace, and there is an...
$16.99All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer
These sixty-four brief, carefully wrought essays center on the writer’s mother’s battle with cancer and...
$16.00On Contemporary Art
On Contemporary Art isn’t a critique of its subject but a discussion of its situation....
$12.95Homing Instincts
Morales is able to string these eclectic stories together into a larger narrative, making the...
$19.95Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light
The poems and prose in Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light thus delve into...
$25.00Why Indigenous Literatures Matter
Even within the Indigenous community, identity is a contentious topic, with reasons rooted in a...
$15.99This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton
The scale by which Sexton extends the territory she covers as a poet, practicing her...
$24.95Caesura: Essays
This is a book that wrestles with the expansive ideas of life and death as...
$12.95Rants from the Hill
Rants from the Hill, Michael P. Branch’s collection of humorous, sly essays is easy to...
$14.95Diving Makes the Water Deep
For Savich, there is no difference between that which is learned in the world and...
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