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Solar Maximum
Reading these poems is to be gripped by the uncanny: they're strange and familiar....
$18.00Certain Magical Acts
Enchanted and incantatory, the poems of Certain Magical Acts resist convention and protocol, as Notley’s...
$20.00The Primitive Observatory
Brutal seasons, natural disasters, plagues, class conflicts, and wars torment isolated survivors. What will come...
$15.95To Think of Her Writing Awash in Light
To Think of Her Writing Awash in Light then is partly a quest to find...
$18.00The Performance of Becoming Human
Borzutzky’s poetic vision is vertiginous, a mash-up of images and phrases reflecting the absurdity of...
$18.00Selected Poems
This is a poetics of careful deliberation, aware that language is a container that experience...
$19.95Four Weathercocks
If a work of art can be considered a solar system, it’s then governed by...
$15.00Her Faithfulness
Liz Waldner’s masterful new collection of poems, Her Faithfulness, explores the possibilities of a feminist...
$16.00Literature for Nonhumans
Gabriel Gudding appeals to humans’ intellectual, artistic, and political selves by braiding fact, lyricism, and...
$22.00What the Lyric Is
Nicholson’s writing, which is by turns clever, jokey, and devestatingly ironic, seems to be so...
$17.95Heliopause
The poems in Heliopause are nimble, intelligent, playful, and bold; there is wildness and surprise...
$15.95Evening Oracle
The poems of Evening Oracle began in ritual, as a taking down of the messages...
$14.00Landscapes on a Train
Swensen’s poems, arranged on the page in windowlike, prose-shaped blocks, do what the best poems...
$17.95Illocality
Massey’s taut minimalism converts the things peopling these landscapes—trees, fog, parking lots, the feral subject...
$18.00The Book of Joshua
Sympathetically surreal, funny and tragic, The Book of Joshua is an unusual book, and an...
$19.95Dark Green
That’s the heartbreak that the poems in the collection can’t stop nibbling at. What if...
$17.95Time Down to Mind
For Graham Foust, the subject to which he has returned most often across the arc...
$15.95We Who Saw Everything
We Who Saw Everything is a vast mnemonic for the event of our speaking of...
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