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  • 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
  • After We All Died

    After We All Died

    By Allison Cobb

    There’s no way around it, but there is a way. And that way is to...

    $18.00
  • Wild Horse

    Wild Horse

    By Eric Neuenfeldt

    "These men are tough guy know-it-alls with me-against-the-world mentalities. Men who see themselves as superior...

    $24.95
  • The Singing Ship

    The Singing Ship

    By Rebecca Winterer

    In this beautifully written novel, Winterer takes us on an expedition into the Australian bush...

    $10.95
  • The Mannequin Makers

    The Mannequin Makers

    By Craig Cliff

    Readers finish the novel having learned that beauty invariably comes at a price: physical and...

    $16.00
  • Spleen Elegy

    Spleen Elegy

    By Jason Labbe

    Perhaps like all memories, particularly traumatic ones, the relationships between the lyric speaker and observable...

    $16.00
  • Glory Days

    Glory Days

    By Melissa Fraterrigo

    The landscape of the novel is ghost-haunted. The dead crouch around these characters, blighting them....

    $19.95
  • Everyone Was There

    Everyone Was There

    By Anthony Varallo

    Indeed, we are all composites of contradictions, mysteries unto ourselves, forever zinging between obstacles like...

    $17.00
  • A Turkish Dictionary

    A Turkish Dictionary

    By Andrew Wessels

    Wessels continuously tries to overcome the problem of representation by projecting his images onto an...

    $17.00
  • I Know Your Kind

    I Know Your Kind

    By William Brewer

    Brewer investigates how drug use has ravaged a community and the lives of users, enablers,...

    $16.00
  • Fen

    Fen

    By Daisy Johnson

    This is a collection about sexuality, belonging, the unexplainable compulsion and magnetism toward chosen lovers....

    $16.00
  • Service

    Service

    By Grant Souders

    Much of the difficulty in relating our perceptions of the world has to do with...

    $16.95
  • Deep Salt Water

    Deep Salt Water

    By Marianne Apostolides

    Deep Salt Water is neither political nor didactic; rather, it is a text that transcends...

    $20.00