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  • Peaches Goes It Alone

    Peaches Goes It Alone

    By Frederick Seidel

    Frederick Seidel has long taken pleasure in the absurdities of everyday American life. Under his...

    $24.00
  • Ma Bo'le's Second Life

    Ma Bo’le’s Second Life

    By Xiao Hong, translated by Howard Goldblatt

    In addition to the detailed life of Ma Bo’le during the occupation, the novel is...

    $15.95
  • This Must Be the Place

    This Must Be the Place

    By Susan Jackson Rodgers

    As I read this novel during the fall of 2018, the nation collectively returned to...

    $16.95
  • Babette

    Babette

    By Sara Deniz Akant

    Akant troubles the borders between life and death, between consciousness and the unconscious, through a...

    $16.00
  • how do i net thee

    how do i net thee

    By Shira Dentz

    Who, or what, can be captured in such open forms is this book’s question, and...

    $14.22
  • Carry You

    Carry You

    By Glori Simmons

    The war has continued for so long now that an entire generation has never known...

    $17.95
  • Jaws of Life

    Jaws of Life

    By Laura Leigh Morris

    Laura Leigh Morris’s tales from the fictional town of Brickton, West Virginia give readers a...

    $18.99
  • Indian Horse

    Indian Horse

    By Richard Wagamese

    With his 220-page story of Saul Indian Horse, Wagamese delivers a near-perfect analogy to the...

    $16.95
  • Yield Architecture

    Yield Architecture

    By Jake Syersak

    Throughout this collection, Syersak reconfigures and responds to art, philosophy, poetry, and history by directly...

    $13.00
  • Silk Road

    Silk Road

    By Daneen Wardrop

    In these poems, delicately and profusely braided together in a loose narrative of nine sections,...

    $16.00
  • Anatomic

    Anatomic

    By Adam Dickinson

    After having an impressive series of tests run on his body, Dickinson uses poetry as...

    $20.95
  • Holy Moly Carry Me

    Holy Moly Carry Me

    By Erika Meitner

    And while many of Meitner’s meditations are brutal and anxiety-laced, what’s also clear is this...

    $17.00
  • Indictus

    Indictus

    By Natalie Eilbert

    How indeed can we know any better than to pretend in our cultural discourse that...

    $15.00
  • Extra Hidden Life, among the Days

    Extra Hidden Life, among the Days

    By Brenda Hillman

    Hillman plays with the post-human—a hypothetical, ecological state following the extinction of humanity—but never abandons...

    $24.95
  • Rocket Fantastic

    Rocket Fantastic

    By Gabrielle Calvocoressi

    There is magic in the poetry of Rocket Fantastic. Bodies are gendered and more-than-gendered. Humans...

    $25.95
  • Baby, I Don't Care

    Baby, I Don’t Care

    By Chelsey Minnis

    Minnis notes that the “book was inspired by classic movies and couldn’t have been written...

    $18.00
  • North American Stadiums

    North American Stadiums

    By Grady Chambers

    In many ways, this is a nostalgic book—looking back and recalling old friends and scenes...

    $22.00
  • Of Sphere

    Of Sphere

    By Karla Kelsey

    Even at the level of syntax, words and concepts flow into one another. The poems...

    $12.95
  • You Are the Phenomenology

    You Are the Phenomenology

    By Timothy O'Keefe

    In the precision and beauty of its varied form, Timothy O’Keefe’s You Are the Phenomenology...

    $16.95
  • Mademoiselle Bambù

    Mademoiselle Bambù

    By Pierre Mac Orlan

    Merging crime, espionage, and absurdist fiction, French author Pierre Mac Orlan (born Pierre Dumarchey in...

    $22.95
  • Lances All Alike

    Lances All Alike

    By Suzanne Zelazo

    Only a few pages in, it’s clear that this is not what one could reasonably...

    $19.95