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  • Dropping Death

    Dropping Death

    By Duane Esposito and Ralph Nazareth

    The very privacy of these poems is charged with a sense of another’s presence. In...

    $10.00
  • Buck Studies

    Buck Studies

    By Douglas Kearney

    Kearney keeps finding new ways to collage on the level of the sonic, semantic, visual,...

    $15.95
  • I will not kick my friends

    I will not kick my friends

    By Kathleen Winter

    Winter balances insight with compassion, and reaches for the ineffable with humility and courage, so...

    $17.00
  • Sleep Paralysis

    Sleep Paralysis

    By Kathy Goodkin

    Like the best ecopoetry of our age, Sleep Paralysis teaches us to pay attention to...

    $7.00
  • After We All Died

    After We All Died

    By Allison Cobb

    There’s no way around it, but there is a way. And that way is to...

    $18.00
  • Spleen Elegy

    Spleen Elegy

    By Jason Labbe

    Perhaps like all memories, particularly traumatic ones, the relationships between the lyric speaker and observable...

    $16.00
  • A Turkish Dictionary

    A Turkish Dictionary

    By Andrew Wessels

    Wessels continuously tries to overcome the problem of representation by projecting his images onto an...

    $17.00
  • I Know Your Kind

    I Know Your Kind

    By William Brewer

    Brewer investigates how drug use has ravaged a community and the lives of users, enablers,...

    $16.00
  • Service

    Service

    By Grant Souders

    Much of the difficulty in relating our perceptions of the world has to do with...

    $16.95
  • Phrasis

    Phrasis

    By Wendy Xu

    Xu’s politics are more apparent than those of some other poets, adding satisfying layers to...

    $15.95
  • Marvels of the Invisible

    Marvels of the Invisible

    By Jenny Molberg

    Molberg refuses to parse the usual polarities of religion and the natural world. She seeks...

    $16.95
  • Silencer

    Silencer

    By Marcus Wicker

    He seems afraid that the world has become inured to the sickeningly steady stream of...

    $15.99
  • Cyclorama

    Cyclorama

    By Daneen Wardrop

    In her stunning new collection Cyclorama, Daneen Wardrop applies the unique artistic resources of poetry...

    $19.00
  • Watchful

    Watchful

    By Molly Bendall

    Bendall’s aesthetic of incompletion asserts that conventions of language make us incapable of seeing the...

    $17.95
  • The Absolute Letter

    The Absolute Letter

    By Andrew Joron

    ...reading through Joron’s volume is, à la Tanning’s painting, to confront one’s fundamental notions, linguistic...

    $14.95
  • Overyellow

    Overyellow

    By Nicolas Pesquès, Trans. By Cole Swensen

    Overyellow describes itself as “a work about place —about the attempt to construct, through writing,...

    $14.00
  • Meadow Slasher

    Meadow Slasher

    By Joshua Marie Wilkinson

    Meadow Slasher begins as a book about a vagrant with questionable motives and turns into...

    $14.95