Five Reviews: The Sobbing School; Not on the Last Day, but on the Very Last; The Wug Test; Scriptorium; and Trébuchet

By Joshua Bennett, Justin Boening, Jennifer Kronovet, Melissa Range, and Danniel Schoonebeek

All these collections, however, share an intellectual restlessness, a capacity for rendering the associative leaps...

$ Various

Illusion of an Overwhelm

By John Amen

Resisting single interpretation and clear narrative, John Amen pushes against the conventional through poems that...

$15.81

Partisan of Things

By Francis Ponge, translated by Joshua Corey and Jean-Luc Garneau

A necessary new translation of a book that looks deeply and astutely at the nonhuman...

$13.95

Four Reincarnations

By Max Ritvo

Along with tough images from someone facing the end of life, there are generosity and...

$14.95

Cold Pastoral

By Rebecca Dunham

These poems take careful note of the methods by which humans are destroying the Earth,...

$10.87

Surge

By Opal C. McCarthy

Men, the poems argue, want a goddess to sleep with, but in doing so may...

$15.00

Rayfish

By Mary Hickman

Hickman often sets out to compose her poems with the kind of sobriety that a...

$17.95

Tender Omnibus

By Katy Bohinc, Editor

Tender Buttons Press is most suitably named for/after a text by that great poetry momma...

$30.00

Take This Stallion

By Anaïs Duplan

Duplan continues to probe authenticity throughout the book, specifically what it means to be a...

$12.81

Fireworks in the Graveyard

By Joy Ladin

Joy Ladin faces the relentlessness of our most vexing riddles with grace, musicality, and wry...

$10.00

American Anger

By H. L. Hix

Over the book’s ten sections Hix employs a slew of voices to do his bidding:...

$15.39

Whereas

By Stephen Dunn

Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn’s new book of poetry, Whereas, comes out of a life...

$17.07

Skeleton Coast

By Elizabeth Arnold

Where the speaker exposes her vulnerabilities, the reader must connect and piece together. There is...

$15.95

An Ecology of Elsewhere

By Sandra Meek

Meek takes risks with these poems, testing the boundaries of her sympathy, whether for the...

$10.96

Ghost / Landcape

By Kristina Marie Darling and John Gallaher

The reader walks a labyrinth, searching for clues, each chapter relinquishing a few while simultaneously...

$16.00

Scarecrow

By Robert Fernandez

Fernandez poses an intellectual, referential voice that is continually confounding a consistent line of thought....

$23.34

Divinity School

By Alicia Jo Rabins

Rabins reveals that our gestures allow us to know our bodies, and the emotional associations...

$14.45

The Opposite of Light

By Kimberly Grey

The Opposite of Light offers a momentary glimpse into the shards of a relationship that...

$9.91

A Pillow Book

By Suzanne Buffam

Awash in blunt humor and hazy renderings of the quotidian, A Pillow Book is a...

$14.00

Archeophonics

By Peter Gizzi

Gizzi is always exacting with his line breaks and in this case uses them to...

$24.95

My Fault

By Leora Fridman

Rather than search for absolution, Fridman writes into the complicity, into the fault....

$16.00

The Division of Labor

By Dot Devota

There is optimism in this book, but it is an optimism like none I’ve otherwise...

$16.00

Bestiary

By Donika Kelly

Kelly’s sentimentality is distorted through trauma, but it is that distortion that draws us in...

$16.00

Burn Lyrics

By Benjamin Landry

Landry has approached the art of erasure in reverse, so that something of the timeless,...

$15.00