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Tender Omnibus
Tender Buttons Press is most suitably named for/after a text by that great poetry momma...
$30.00Take This Stallion
Duplan continues to probe authenticity throughout the book, specifically what it means to be a...
$12.81Fireworks in the Graveyard
Joy Ladin faces the relentlessness of our most vexing riddles with grace, musicality, and wry...
$10.00American Anger
Over the book’s ten sections Hix employs a slew of voices to do his bidding:...
$15.39Skeleton Coast
Where the speaker exposes her vulnerabilities, the reader must connect and piece together. There is...
$15.95An Ecology of Elsewhere
Meek takes risks with these poems, testing the boundaries of her sympathy, whether for the...
$10.96Ghost / Landcape
The reader walks a labyrinth, searching for clues, each chapter relinquishing a few while simultaneously...
$16.00Divinity School
Rabins reveals that our gestures allow us to know our bodies, and the emotional associations...
$14.45The Opposite of Light
The Opposite of Light offers a momentary glimpse into the shards of a relationship that...
$9.91A Pillow Book
Awash in blunt humor and hazy renderings of the quotidian, A Pillow Book is a...
$14.00The Division of Labor
There is optimism in this book, but it is an optimism like none I’ve otherwise...
$16.00Burn Lyrics
Landry has approached the art of erasure in reverse, so that something of the timeless,...
$15.00Spiritual Grave Year
Through humor and sincerity, stitched together with painfully lurid moments, Dan Magers provides “a vision...
$12.00Wedding Pulls
Brimming with characters, the poems are not narrative but tightly sprung lyrics whose wording reveals...
$14.95Scorpyn Odes
Browne’s challenge to how our world is and whether we should continue to stay in...
$16.95Turning into Dwelling
Many of his poems don’t just push boundaries of time, place, race, and self, but...
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