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  • Lunch Portraits

    Lunch Portraits

    By Debora Kuan

    Debora Kuan’s wonderful Lunch Portraits inverts and subverts this ideology of hunger, constructing poems that...

    $16.00
  • Caesura: Essays

    Caesura: Essays

    By Gary McDowell

    This is a book that wrestles with the expansive ideas of life and death as...

    $12.95
  • Rants from the Hill

    Rants from the Hill

    By Michael P. Branch

    Rants from the Hill, Michael P. Branch’s collection of humorous, sly essays is easy to...

    $14.95
  • Sleeping Dragons: Stories

    Sleeping Dragons: Stories

    By Magela Baudoin

    Largely ominous and somber in tone, the concise, intelligent fiction contained in Sleeping Dragons will...

    $16.95
  • Sonata in K

    Sonata in K

    By Karen An-hwei Lee

    At its most basic level, Sonata is a thought experiment. It asks: What if...

    $14.00
  • Evening

    Evening

    By Ethel Rackin

    Rackin’s language is rich with wordplay, double meanings and subtle cross-references that never distract us...

    $12.00
  • Losers Dream On

    Losers Dream On

    By Mark Halliday

    The entries shift wildly from the domestic to the cosmic (and back again), so that...

    $18.00
  • Christmas in July

    Christmas in July

    By Alan Michael Parker

    Parker ably brings us close to the beauty and meaning in ordinary people and simple...

    $16.95
  • Icon

    Icon

    By David Mutschlecner

    Across the book, Mutschlecner cradles his layered world “in words that are naked,” in a...

    $18.00
  • Daybed

    Daybed

    By Zach Savich

    Savich’s own crisis may be characterized as one of alienation from the human, or the...

    $14.95
  • Dropping Death

    Dropping Death

    By Duane Esposito and Ralph Nazareth

    The very privacy of these poems is charged with a sense of another’s presence. In...

    $10.00
  • Petites Suites

    Petites Suites

    By Robert Wexelblatt

    Each little piece in the suite also bears a pertinent musical title, written in French,...

    $18.00
  • Underground Fugue

    Underground Fugue

    By Margot Singer

    Readers will be captivated by the book’s details . . . the vivid portrayals of...

    $13.59
  • Buck Studies

    Buck Studies

    By Douglas Kearney

    Kearney keeps finding new ways to collage on the level of the sonic, semantic, visual,...

    $15.95
  • I will not kick my friends

    I will not kick my friends

    By Kathleen Winter

    Winter balances insight with compassion, and reaches for the ineffable with humility and courage, so...

    $17.00
  • Thirty-Seven

    Thirty-Seven

    By Peter Stenson

    To the cult, self-induced sickness generates a more harmonious, fulfilled life . . . sickness...

    $26.95
  • Surfing with Sartre

    Surfing with Sartre

    By Aaron James

    The philosophical attitude of existentialism so perfectly fits our time, you'd think it was invented...

    $15.95
  • Sleep Paralysis

    Sleep Paralysis

    By Kathy Goodkin

    Like the best ecopoetry of our age, Sleep Paralysis teaches us to pay attention to...

    $7.00