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  • Lances All Alike

    Lances All Alike

    By Suzanne Zelazo

    Only a few pages in, it’s clear that this is not what one could reasonably...

    $19.95
  • Big Windows

    Big Windows

    By Lauren Moseley

    Moseley does not just consider the boundary between outside and inside. Her poems also explore...

    $15.95
  • Headline News

    Headline News

    By John Deming

    A crucial component of the book’s success involves the meticulous balance Deming constructs between disarray...

    $17.63
  • Three Poems

    Three Poems

    By Hannah Sullivan

    Her rhymes are multifarious and carry out wildly different operations. They have been compared to...

    $14.00
  • Lunch Portraits

    Lunch Portraits

    By Debora Kuan

    Debora Kuan’s wonderful Lunch Portraits inverts and subverts this ideology of hunger, constructing poems that...

    $16.00
  • Evening

    Evening

    By Ethel Rackin

    Rackin’s language is rich with wordplay, double meanings and subtle cross-references that never distract us...

    $12.00
  • Losers Dream On

    Losers Dream On

    By Mark Halliday

    The entries shift wildly from the domestic to the cosmic (and back again), so that...

    $18.00
  • Icon

    Icon

    By David Mutschlecner

    Across the book, Mutschlecner cradles his layered world “in words that are naked,” in a...

    $18.00
  • Daybed

    Daybed

    By Zach Savich

    Savich’s own crisis may be characterized as one of alienation from the human, or the...

    $14.95
  • 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