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  • 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
  • Try to Get Lost

    Try to Get Lost

    By Joan Frank

    Frank pays affecting tribute to the lives of her mother and sister, both now gone,...

    $19.95
  • 50 Miles

    50 Miles

    By Sheryl St. Germain

    It’s lyrical, textured, natural, and unexpected. While the form these essays take are varied in...

    $17.00
  • Stone Skimmers

    Stone Skimmers

    By Jennifer Wisner Kelly

    One might excuse oneself for reading it in a single sitting, as I did, finding...

    $15.95
  • Fur Not Light

    Fur Not Light

    By Jeff Alessandrelli

    The strength of these impossible-to-summarize poems and the disorder of any narrative is in the...

    $14.00
  • Quivira

    Quivira

    By Karen Kevorkian

    The collection is wonderfully complex in its work towards uncovering un-simplified truths within the near-constant...

    $25.00
  • The River Twice

    The River Twice

    By Kathleen Graber

    Kathleen Graber’s The River Twice troubles the distinction between past and present. Rather than eschew...

    $17.95
  • Earth

    Earth

    By Hannah Brooks-Motl

    In its contradictions and awareness of those contradictions, in its ability to project back a...

    $17.95
  • Stamford '76

    Stamford ’76

    By JoeAnn Hart

    If one remains open during the excavation process, it is possible to dredge up unexpected,...

    $19.95
  • Utopia Pipe Dream Memory

    Utopia Pipe Dream Memory

    By Anna Gurton-Wachter

    Refusing to be confined by the limits of narrative genre and form, she nevertheless exploits...

    $14.00
  • Hear Trains

    Hear Trains

    By Caroline Knox

    While these poems share approaches, their larger effect is to sketch the history of civilization...

    $25.00
  • Flourish

    Flourish

    By Dora Malech

    In a startling and invigorating way, each of the following poems is another party game...

    $15.95
  • Shimmer

    Shimmer

    By Mark Irwin

    The speaker mourns his mother while she lives and after she dies; he writes about...

    $22.00