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  • The Best Prey

    The Best Prey

    By Paige Quiñones

    Quiñones situates desire as the fluxing heart of the collection and imbues its hunger with...

    $17.95
  • The Leave-Takers

    The Leave-Takers

    By Steven Wingate

    Laynie Jackman darts across the country “taking leave of the dead” by dispersing the belongings...

    $24.95
  • We the Jury

    We the Jury

    By Wayne Miller

    Creating sympathy is the poet’s role, and learning to sympathize is our only salvation....

    $16.00
  • wyrd] bird

    wyrd] bird

    By Claire Marie Stancek

    Stancek opens a dialectic between the speaker and mystic Hildegard of Bingen that will surface,...

    $17.95
  • The Earliest Witnesses

    The Earliest Witnesses

    By G.C. Waldrep

    These poems teach us about the sacrilege and sacraments of ingestion, the body our only...

    $18.95
  • Duplicity

    Duplicity

    By Peter Selgin

    Upon discovering his dead twin, Stewart decides to dispose of the body and appropriate Brock's...

    $17.95
  • Barn 8

    Barn 8

    By Deb Olin Unferth

    They aim to free chickens from imprisonment in factory farms, in order to give poultry...

    $16.00
  • original kink

    original kink

    By Jubi Arriola-Headley

    What is it to write according to a socially engaged poetics, to demand of one’s...

    $18.00
  • Rough Song

    Rough Song

    By Blanca Varela

    Rough Song represents the first English translation of Blanca Varela, a major figure in twentieth-century...

    $17.95
  • Sense Violence

    Sense Violence

    By Helena Boberg

    The Swedish title of Helena Boberg’s second collection, Sinnesvåld (translated as Sense Violence by Johannes...

    $16.00
  • Empire

    Empire

    By Tracy Zeman

    Empire is “a shattered sequence” that dismantles settler logic and the ideological underpinnings of manifest...

    $14.00
  • Scar

    Scar

    By Bruce Bond

    There is an artistic paradox here: wherever a scar forms, nothing else can grow....

    $18.00
  • Sisyphusina

    Sisyphusina

    By Shira Dentz

    Proximity is often a necessary discussion tool for intimacy. Not that there is a prerequisite...

    $16.00
  • Rain in Plural

    Rain in Plural

    By Fiona Sze-Lorrain

    Poetry is engaged to dreams or a dream-state, and the surprising word-choices shift us into...

    $17.95
  • Same Faces

    Same Faces

    By Albert Mobilio

    The twist of the shortest word in a line of the longest poem acts as...

    $$17.50
  • Hot with the Bad Things

    Hot with the Bad Things

    By Lucia LoTempio

    Grieving violence creates a kind of horrific palimpsest of how the public choruses events....

    $16.95
  • Paper Bells

    Paper Bells

    By Phan Nhiên Hạo

    Awash with wandering loneliness, Phan’s lines vacillate from contemplative to biting, economical to allegorical...

    $17.95
  • The Fire Eater

    The Fire Eater

    By Jose Hernandez Diaz

    Herein lies the beauty of Hernandez Diaz’s poetry: what is real is up for grabs,...

    $16.95