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  • The Biology of Luck

    The Biology of Luck

    By Jacob M. Appel

    Writing is an act often defined by the conflict between faith and despair, and though...

    $16.00
  • Practice on Mountains

    Practice on Mountains

    By David Bartone

    Bartone reveals the contemporary prose poem as inextricable from haiku, haibun, and the spare, image-driven...

    $18
  • Byrd

    Byrd

    By Kim Church

    Kim Church’s debut novel, Byrd, tells the story of Addie Lockwood, a young bookseller in...

    $14.95
  • Everyone Here Has a Gun

    Everyone Here Has a Gun

    By Lucas Southworth

    Southworth creates surprising characters and unique narrative structures that stimulate intense thought and emotion. Everyone...

    $24.95
  • The Beauty and the Sorrow

    The Beauty and the Sorrow

    By Peter Englund, translated by Peter Graves

    Some events are so vast and complicated as to render them ultimately unknowable. ...

    $17.00
  • Mortar

    Mortar

    By Sara Mumolo

    Before getting too deep into Mortar, Sara Mumolo’s first poetry collection, you run into a...

    $17.95
  • 88 Sonnets

    88 Sonnets

    By Clark Coolidge

    Clark Coolidge is no stranger to crystalline poetic forms. But sonnets? Such a traditional structure...

    $15.95
  • Passage of Tears

    Passage of Tears

    By Abdourahman A. Waberi, translated by David and Nicole Ball

    “There is a painting by Paul Klee called Angelus Novus. It shows an angel who seems...

    $21.00
  • A Conjoined Book

    A Conjoined Book

    By Karla Kelsey

    Those who like to think of poetry as the purest expression of a unified self,...

    $17.95
  • The Next Monsters

    The Next Monsters

    By Julie Doxsee

    The Next Monsters is an accomplished volume, one that's as carefully crafted as it is...

    $14.95
  • The Monarchs

    The Monarchs

    By Melanie Noel

    Noel’s unwavering awareness is so keen and rapt that as it perceives it also exerts...

    $18
  • Debts & Lessons

    Debts & Lessons

    By Lynn Xu

    Loving engenders intimacy. The resulting proximity creates space for further loving. Lynn Xu’s song is...

    $17.95
  • Without a Net

    Without a Net

    By Ana Maria Shua, translated by Steven J. Stewart

    Trapeze artists and animals. Freaks and clowns. Crowds, high-wires and swallowed swords. In the same...

    $18.00
  • On Sal Mal Lane

    On Sal Mal Lane

    By Ru Freeman

    In this era saturated with polarization: political, religious and economic, where opposing forces take sides...

    $26.00
  • Ghost Moth

    Ghost Moth

    By Michèle Forbes

    Forbes is a master of creating high tension and drama in the simplest of movements...

    $14.95
  • The Ecopoetry Anthology

    The Ecopoetry Anthology

    By Eds. Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street

    The Ecopoetry Anthology is a beautifully constructed, carefully planned, and intelligently framed volume. Readers looking...

    $24.95
  • Lotería

    Lotería

    By Mario Alberto Zambrano

    After three years of diligent work, Mario Alberto Zambrano’s first novel, Lotería, provides readers with...

    $21.99