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  • Antidote

    Antidote

    By Corey Van Landingham

    One of the most striking features is Van Landingham’s ability to collapse massive distances within...

    $16.95
  • Dear Darwish

    Dear Darwish

    By Morani Kornberg-Weiss

    As a whole, Kornberg-Weiss’s impulse is to emphasize the relation of one’s purview of histories...

    $16.00
  • Missing the Moon

    Missing the Moon

    By Bin Ramke

    This collection shows us how the poem’s purpose isn’t to contain or reflect or make...

    $17.95
  • Beyond the Chainlink

    Beyond the Chainlink

    By Rusty Morrison

    Morrison's Beyond the Chainlink is a beautifully written collection, as philosophical as it is concrete...

    $18
  • Xylotheque: Essays

    Xylotheque: Essays

    By Yelizaveta Renfro

    Renfro’s essays are profoundly moving, written in a rich, deeply felt voice touched with...

    $19.95
  • Ascension Theory

    Ascension Theory

    By Christopher Bolin

    Ascension Theory, Christopher Bolin’s debut collection, is a negotiation between the poetics of knowing and...

    $18
  • The Clash of Images

    The Clash of Images

    By Abdelfattah Kilito, translated by Robyn Creswell

    Kilito’s style is that of a ponderous memoir with a capacity for drawing up and...

    $12.95
  • 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