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  • Burn Lyrics

    Burn Lyrics

    By Benjamin Landry

    Landry has approached the art of erasure in reverse, so that something of the timeless,...

    $15.00
  • May Day

    May Day

    By Gretchen Marquette

    Marquette’s collection makes a compelling claim for the importance of honest and deeply personal expressions...

    $16.00
  • Spiritual Grave Year

    Spiritual Grave Year

    By Dan Magers

    Through humor and sincerity, stitched together with painfully lurid moments, Dan Magers provides “a vision...

    $12.00
  • The Field

    The Field

    By Robert Andrew Perez

    The casual can seem lax: as praise, “casual” can sound like a euphemism for “underdressed,”...

    $11.95
  • Bardo or Not Bardo

    Bardo or Not Bardo

    By Antoine Volodine, translated by J.T. Mahany

    Volodine’s novel is energetic, offbeat, fast-paced, and shows an off-kilter sense of humor. He writes...

    $13.95
  • Children of the Country

    Children of the Country

    By Abigail R. Shaffer

    Set in a depressed blue-collar community in the isolated backcountry of Arkansas, the novel depicts...

    $15.29
  • Wedding Pulls

    Wedding Pulls

    By J. K. Daniels

    Brimming with characters, the poems are not narrative but tightly sprung lyrics whose wording reveals...

    $14.95
  • Receipt

    Receipt

    By Karen Leona Anderson

    Her pacing is subdued and infectious, and it will get under your skin. These poems’...

    $16.00
  • Scorpyn Odes

    Scorpyn Odes

    By Laynie Browne

    Browne’s challenge to how our world is and whether we should continue to stay in...

    $16.95
  • The White Swallow

    The White Swallow

    By Anna Kovatcheva

    The language is compressed, carefully wrought, every sentence doing the work of many....

    $10.00
  • Turning into Dwelling

    Turning into Dwelling

    By Christopher Gilbert

    Many of his poems don’t just push boundaries of time, place, race, and self, but...

    $16.00
  • Catechism: A Love Story

    Catechism: A Love Story

    By Julie Marie Wade

    Claiming one’s “hidden wholeness” is a life’s work, and this book demonstrates one person’s passionate...

    $14.00
  • Neon Green

    Neon Green

    By Margaret Wappler

    ...the presence of the alien ship never overwhelms the meat of the story, a heartfelt...

    $16.00
  • Viability

    Viability

    By Sarah Vap

    Vap layers and links words and contexts, highlighting how we are ultimately bound by the...

    $22.00
  • Solar Maximum

    Solar Maximum

    By Sueyeun Juliette Lee

    Reading these poems is to be gripped by the uncanny: they're strange and familiar....

    $18.00
  • The Gustav Sonata

    The Gustav Sonata

    By Rose Tremain

    Tremain paints her picture of post-war Switzerland with care and steadiness, and the reader can’t...

    $26.95
  • Certain Magical Acts

    Certain Magical Acts

    By Alice Notley

    Enchanted and incantatory, the poems of Certain Magical Acts resist convention and protocol, as Notley’s...

    $20.00
  • Receipt

    Receipt

    By Karen Leona Anderson

    These poems are spring-loaded: by turns quirky, tough, and always clear-sighted....

    $16.00
  • The Primitive Observatory

    The Primitive Observatory

    By Gregory Kimbrell

    Brutal seasons, natural disasters, plagues, class conflicts, and wars torment isolated survivors. What will come...

    $15.95
  • Seeing Red

    Seeing Red
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    By Lina Meruane, translated by Megan McDowell

    One evening in New York, Lina Meruane's body "seize[s] up" and leaves her "paralyzed, [her]...

    $14.95
  • Road Trip

    Road Trip

    By Lynette D'Amico

    In text segments set apart by eerie black and white photographs and simple headings, the...

    $7.05