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  • Heliopause

    Heliopause

    By Heather Christle

    The poems in Heliopause are nimble, intelligent, playful, and bold; there is wildness and surprise...

    $15.95
  • Evening Oracle

    Evening Oracle

    By Brandon Shimoda

    The poems of Evening Oracle began in ritual, as a taking down of the messages...

    $14.00
  • Seam

    Seam

    By Tarfia Faizullah

    Faizullah goes beyond the self to write about and translate tragedy, as well as explore...

    $15.95
  • Dog Run Moon

    Dog Run Moon

    By Callan Wink

    Moments of tenderness are rare in this collection, which sees lives ruined and cattle murdered...

    $26.00
  • The Inventors

    The Inventors

    By Peter Selgin

    To write a memoir is—on the surface—to undertake a contrasting examination of both the profound...

    $18.95
  • Post-

    Post-

    By Wayne Miller

    Miller’s task is to remove the fixed barrier that has separated public from private and...

    $16.00
  • Good Girl

    Good Girl

    By Sarah Tomlinson

    Tomlinson’s story tumbles forth with the rapid urgency of a young woman searching for meaning...

    $16.00
  • Upright Beasts

    Upright Beasts

    By Lincoln Michel

    In twenty-five stories (twenty-six if you count an unusually haunting Note on the Type), Michel...

    $16.95
  • Landscapes on a Train

    Landscapes on a Train

    By Cole Swensen

    Swensen’s poems, arranged on the page in windowlike, prose-shaped blocks, do what the best poems...

    $17.95
  • Changing the Subject

    Changing the Subject

    By Sven Birkerts

    Birkerts writes particularly insightful essays about the multiple ways ongoing technological changes in our culture...

    $16.00
  • Illocality

    Illocality

    By Joseph Massey

    Massey’s taut minimalism converts the things peopling these landscapes—trees, fog, parking lots, the feral subject...

    $18.00
  • Look

    Look

    By Solmaz Sharif

    On the cover of Look is a copy of the first photograph ever taken, which...

    $12.52
  • The Telling

    The Telling

    By Zoe Zolbrod

    There is a sense while reading that the simplicity of a rote recounting is exactly...

    $14.00
  • Dark Green

    Dark Green

    By Emily Hunt

    That’s the heartbreak that the poems in the collection can’t stop nibbling at. What if...

    $17.95
  • Time Down to Mind

    Time Down to Mind

    By Graham Foust

    For Graham Foust, the subject to which he has returned most often across the arc...

    $15.95