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  • Whereas

    Whereas

    By Stephen Dunn

    Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn’s new book of poetry, Whereas, comes out of a life...

    $17.07
  • The Phantom of Thomas Hardy

    The Phantom of Thomas Hardy

    By Floyd Skloot

    Part travelogue, part memoir, part novel, this semi-autobiographical and semi-biographical endeavor is multifaceted and blends...

    $22.45
  • The Girls in My Town

    The Girls in My Town

    By Angela Morales

    With humor and compassion, Morales vividly captures the quirky imagery of growing up in 1970s...

    $16.45
  • Skeleton Coast

    Skeleton Coast

    By Elizabeth Arnold

    Where the speaker exposes her vulnerabilities, the reader must connect and piece together. There is...

    $15.95
  • Heirlooms

    Heirlooms

    By Rachel Hall

    This book is ultimately about the numerous hard ways humans survive horrors, not just during...

    $15.95
  • Of This New World

    Of This New World

    By Allegra Hyde

    Many of the stories involve disillusionment and self-discovery of the type we often find in...

    $10.66
  • Before the Feast

    Before the Feast

    By Saša Stanišić, translated by Anthea Bell

    From the opening lines of Saša Stanišić’s Before the Feast, the reader sits as if...

    $8.67
  • An Ecology of Elsewhere

    An Ecology of Elsewhere

    By Sandra Meek

    Meek takes risks with these poems, testing the boundaries of her sympathy, whether for the...

    $10.96
  • Ghost / Landcape

    Ghost / Landcape

    By Kristina Marie Darling and John Gallaher

    The reader walks a labyrinth, searching for clues, each chapter relinquishing a few while simultaneously...

    $16.00
  • Scarecrow

    Scarecrow

    By Robert Fernandez

    Fernandez poses an intellectual, referential voice that is continually confounding a consistent line of thought....

    $23.34
  • A Garden Fed by Lightning

    A Garden Fed by Lightning

    By Marshall Moore

    Infused with an element of the fantastical, many of the stories, initially appearing straightforward and...

    $15.42
  • Divinity School

    Divinity School

    By Alicia Jo Rabins

    Rabins reveals that our gestures allow us to know our bodies, and the emotional associations...

    $14.45
  • The Opposite of Light

    The Opposite of Light

    By Kimberly Grey

    The Opposite of Light offers a momentary glimpse into the shards of a relationship that...

    $9.91
  • The Rope Swing

    The Rope Swing

    By Jonathan Corcoran

    Nowhere is the tension between the “gift” and “test” of West Virginia more deftly drawn...

    $11.53
  • A Pillow Book

    A Pillow Book

    By Suzanne Buffam

    Awash in blunt humor and hazy renderings of the quotidian, A Pillow Book is a...

    $14.00
  • Him, Me, Muhammad Ali

    Him, Me, Muhammad Ali

    By Randa Jarrar

    Jarrar's characters are Muslims, mainly women, usually not living their lives in lockstep with the...

    $10.29
  • Archeophonics

    Archeophonics

    By Peter Gizzi

    Gizzi is always exacting with his line breaks and in this case uses them to...

    $24.95
  • Potted Meat

    Potted Meat

    By Steven Dunn

    Steven Dunn’s award-winning debut novel is a formally innovative, sonically distinctive work of art that...

    $14.00