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  • The Tranquilized Tongue

    The Tranquilized Tongue

    By Eric Baus

    Presented as a series of compact, carefully crafted prose pieces, this magnificent sequence poses compelling...

    $13.95
  • Four Poetry Books

    Four Poetry Books

    By Moxley; Bouchard; Browne; Meyer

    For as much as poetry concerns itself with the various forms of eternity—Keats’s “A thing...

    $17.95
  • Barely Composed

    Barely Composed

    By Alice Fulton

    This collection travels the breadth of the universe and the human, leaving us searching our...

    $25.95
  • O, Heart

    O, Heart

    By Claudia Keelan

    I have called the book a poetic treatise, but in effect, it is more an...

    $16.95
  • To See the Queen

    To See the Queen

    By Allison Seay

    These are frightening, moving, deeply human poems—poems such as these are sorely needed....

    $15.95
  • Forgiveness Forgiveness

    Forgiveness Forgiveness

    By Shane McCrae

    With that in mind, McCrae's Forgiveness Forgiveness is a highly accomplished and moving collection of...

    $15
  • In a Landscape

    In a Landscape

    By John Gallaher

    Gallaher is a master of moving from punchlines to moments of real gravity. Cultural references...

    $16.00
  • My Lorenzo

    My Lorenzo

    By Sebastien Smirou, Translated by Andrew Zawacki

    Smirou takes the possessive pride of appropriation, or rather, personalization, of a historical figure: ...

    $14
  • The New Testament

    The New Testament

    By Jericho Brown

    However, The New Testament is not entirely a poetry of witness, either. Made all the...

    $17.00
  • Whelm

    Whelm

    By Dawn Lonsinger

    Within its catalogs of the miscellaneous world, the book finds a cataloging of an observer...

    $18
  • Peace

    Peace

    By Gillian Conoley

    While Conoley’s poetic virtuosity might accept the world and marvel at it, that’s not to...

    $17.95
  • Two Books by Joshua Corey

    Two Books by Joshua Corey

    By Joshua Corey

    While Beautiful Soul's oscillation between fiction and metafiction can seem somewhat slow footed, the rich...

    $17.95
  • Twine

    Twine

    By David Koehn

    Impressive in their range and arresting in their musicality, the poems are consistently successful....

    $16.50
  • You Good Thing

    You Good Thing

    By Dara Weir

    While Weir’s poems are full of loss and dissolution, they also insist on a presence...

    $16.00
  • You Are Not Dead

    You Are Not Dead

    By Wendy Xu

    Throughout the collection, Xu's speakers use non sequitur to test the limits of absurdity and...

    $15.15
  • Antidote

    Antidote

    By Corey Van Landingham

    One of the most striking features is Van Landingham’s ability to collapse massive distances within...

    $16.95