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  • Rift Zone

    Rift Zone

    By Tess Taylor

    Evidence of rift is everywhere, and yet these poems look not just to ruin but...

    $16.95
  • Habitat Threshold

    Habitat Threshold

    By Craig Santos Perez

    As poets­­­­—non-journalists—we are frequently caught between conflicting expectations for our art. We are told not...

    $17.95
  • All the Great Territories

    All the Great Territories

    By Matthew Wimberley

    In the beginning, Wimberley struggles to mourn the loss of home, father, and country. And...

    $16.95
  • Cage of Lit Glass

    Cage of Lit Glass

    By Charles Kell

    These poems illuminate the seemingly endless cycles of violence that perpetuate government-sanctioned surveillance and incarceration,...

    $16.95
  • Repetition Nineteen

    Repetition Nineteen

    By Mónica de la Torre

    By presenting the reader with twenty-five different translations of the same poem—which deliberately raises questions...

    $18.95
  • Tracing the Horse

    Tracing the Horse

    By Diana Marie Delgado

    What does it mean to be herself in this Mexican-American culture? The last section moves...

    $17.00
  • Ravage & Snare

    Ravage & Snare

    By Matthew Carey Salyer

    The poems are muscular with allusion and wordplay, citing sources diverse as Old English poems...

    $16.00
  • We Fell into Weather

    We Fell into Weather

    By Alexandra Mattraw

    It’s no secret that the world is changing radically; from massive (and righteous) civil unrest...

    $20.00
  • The Blessing

    The Blessing

    By Gregory Orr

    Instead, he writes, “my beginning of trauma and violence led me on to a lifetime...

    $15.00
  • Miraculous Medal

    Miraculous Medal

    By Adrian Koesters

    However, this slim, powerful volume presents a world so viscerally haunting, readers are likely to...

    $15.99
  • Grief Sequence

    Grief Sequence

    By Prageeta Sharma

    In Prageeta Sharma’s collection of poems, her husband’s sudden death makes vivid their emotional and...

    $20.00
  • When the Whales Leave

    When the Whales Leave

    By Yuri Rytkheu, translated by Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse

    Early in the novella, Rytkheu writes that a “legend could be said to be a...

    $14.00
  • You Are Still Alive

    You Are Still Alive

    By William Stobb

    Rather than this dissipating energy, however, Stobb uses the material to perform serious, nearly Buddhist...

    $16.00
  • Ensō

    Ensō

    By Shin Yu Pai

    The book’s title, the Buddhist circle, is shaped by the first and last poems which...

    $25.00
  • The Clearing

    The Clearing

    By Allison Adair

    Despite being caught in the eddies of loss, returning in memory and emotion to past...

    $22.00
  • Paula Regossy

    Paula Regossy

    By Lynn Crawford

    Crawford, like her characters, is not fearful, but bold and courageous in molding a novel...

    $15.00