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  • The Deposition

    The Deposition

    By Pete Duval

    Duval is not afraid to leave the reader guessing about the ultimate fate of his...

    $19.95
  • Pilgrim Bell

    Pilgrim Bell

    By Kaveh Akbar

    Akbar invites his audience to read between the lines and find his shadow story—the truth...

    $16
  • Bone Rosary

    Bone Rosary

    By Thomas Lynch

    From his perch of eyewitness, Lynch presents to the literary canon his deeply considered treatise...

    $25.95
  • Art in Time

    Art in Time

    By Cole Swensen

    I stamp my foot in applause, write notes on the pages, distribute my thoughts; Swensen...

    $18.95
  • Shrapnel Maps

    Shrapnel Maps

    By Philip Metres

    I wasn’t raised to trust or believe in chance. I was raised to believe nothing...

    $20
  • The Perfect Nine

    The Perfect Nine

    By Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is, by both artistic and political measures, one of the most important...

    $23.99
  • Now It’s Dark

    Now It’s Dark

    By Peter Gizzi

    Written in a time of loss and disaffection, the fatigue in these poems is insidious....

    $15.95
  • Dunce

    Dunce

    By Mary Ruefle

    The poems of Mary Ruefle have often felt like delightful puzzles: slippery, full of surprise,...

    $18
  • Atomizer

    Atomizer

    By Elizabeth A. I. Powell

    Scent evokes memory. Such strong associations with smell have prompted perfumes, the pinnacle of scent,...

    $19.95
  • The Memory Eaters

    The Memory Eaters

    By Elizabeth Kadetsky

    Central to Elizabeth Kadetsky’s stellar collection of essays about the nature of memory and grief,...

    $19.95
  • Things That Go

    Things That Go

    By Laura Eve Engel

    When disasters fly by faster than billboards, how are we to bear witness to them?...

    $16.95
  • The Melancholy of Anatomy

    The Melancholy of Anatomy

    By Martin Corless-Smith

    There’s a sense in The Melancholy of Anatomy that the grave intellect monitoring the process...

    $18
  • Pine

    Pine

    By Julia Koets

    Koets’s robust emotional range and delicate intimacy are reminiscent of Anne Carson’s translations of Sappho....

    $16.95
  • Folklorn

    Folklorn

    By Angela Mi Young Hur

    Hur’s new novel offers a suspenseful search for family secrets, populated with ghosts and Korean...

    $26.95
  • Seven

    Seven

    By Farzana Doctor

    Not being able to go home again resembles the nature of trauma: it can be...

    $22.99
  • Dear Ms. Schubert

    Dear Ms. Schubert

    By Ewa Lipska, translated by Robin Davidson and Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska

    Listen to the bird song. As Lipska writes,” “It’s just an untreated case of chronic...

    $19.95
  • Abundance: A Novel

    Abundance: A Novel

    By Jakob Guanzon

    When Henry enters a Walmart to steal medicine for his sick child, he glances up...

    $16.00
  • Wild Swims: Stories

    Wild Swims: Stories

    By Dorthe Nors; translated from the Danish by Misha Hoekstra

    Nors achieves exquisite interiority in these narratives, burrowing so precisely into a character’s memory and...

    $15.00