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Dropping Death
The very privacy of these poems is charged with a sense of another’s presence. In...
$10.00Because Everything Is Terrible
These are urgent poems, made all the more urgent by the apocalyptic-feeling political landscape we’ve...
$18.00Buck Studies
Kearney keeps finding new ways to collage on the level of the sonic, semantic, visual,...
$15.95I will not kick my friends
Winter balances insight with compassion, and reaches for the ineffable with humility and courage, so...
$17.00Bright Raft in the Afterweather
Make no mistake; these are ecological poems, but not of an idyllic moment void of...
$13.86Sleep Paralysis
Like the best ecopoetry of our age, Sleep Paralysis teaches us to pay attention to...
$7.00Spleen Elegy
Perhaps like all memories, particularly traumatic ones, the relationships between the lyric speaker and observable...
$16.00A Turkish Dictionary
Wessels continuously tries to overcome the problem of representation by projecting his images onto an...
$17.00Wherever We Mean to Be: Selected Poems 1975–2015
The most solitary poems, the ones that take the speaker for a walk through a...
$19.95I Know Your Kind
Brewer investigates how drug use has ravaged a community and the lives of users, enablers,...
$16.00The Happy End / All Welcome
No matter how many hours we may be chained to our office chair, no matter...
$17Playing Monster :: Seiche
Narratives of trauma seem especially marked by the uncanny or unreal. The traumatized self is...
$17Marvels of the Invisible
Molberg refuses to parse the usual polarities of religion and the natural world. She seeks...
$16.95Late in the Empire of Men
“Before I was a man I was a man / made of pixels,” Christopher Kempf...
$15.95In the Language of My Captor
The shifting meaning, line by line and poem by poem, attests to McCrae’s excellent care...
$24.95The Absolute Letter
...reading through Joron’s volume is, à la Tanning’s painting, to confront one’s fundamental notions, linguistic...
$14.95Overyellow
Overyellow describes itself as “a work about place —about the attempt to construct, through writing,...
$14.00Meadow Slasher
Meadow Slasher begins as a book about a vagrant with questionable motives and turns into...
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