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Big Gorgeous Jazz Machine
I recently discovered the pendulum wave. Much like Newton’s famous cradle, the pendulum wave involves...
$24.99Hypergraphia and Other Failed Attempts at Paradise
The late Dean Young resonates with insight into the human condition in writing, “. ....
$16A Minor Chorus
One of very few things that can be safely said about fiction is that stories...
$15.95I|I
Katherine Indermaur’s I|I, winner of the 2022 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize, is a...
$17.99Quaternity: Four Novellas from the Carpathians
Some years ago, I was invited to a small private theater to watch a horror...
$20.27Curing Season: Artifacts
Kristine Langley Mahler bookends her debut essay collection, Curing Season: Artifacts, with images of her...
$21.99A Thousand Curves
A man of a certain age greets the morning and considers ruefully the passing of...
$18Mongolian Horse
It is easy to see how the stories forming David E. Yee’s debut collection, Mongolian...
$21.95Blessing the Exoskeleton
Part individual plea, part millennial manifesto, Andrew Hemmert’s Blessing the Exoskeleton combines displacement, homesickness, and...
$18A Single Rose
Muriel Barbery’s A Single Rose follows a French botanist’s emotional tour through the Zen gardens...
$22Translation of the Lilies Back Into Lists
In Laynie Browne’s fourteenth book of poetry, Translation of the Lilies Back Into Lists, the...
$22In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful
In Abigail Chabitnoy’s second collection, In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful, the speaker pulls...
$15.95Wound Is the Origin of Wonder
Listening to Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land: Suite always makes me cry. Tears evoked by...
$26.95The New Gods
William O’Daly is known as one of the preeminent translators of the poetry of Pablo...
$20The Face of the Quartzes
The poems in Chus Pato’s The Face of the Quartzes, as translated from Galician into...
$19The Symmetry of Fish
In Su Cho’s moving debut, The Symmetry of Fish, language, culture, and family form a...
$18Book of the Cold
Given the social unrest that has occurred over the past few years, it seems, at...
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