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  • 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
  • Dear Darwish

    Dear Darwish

    By Morani Kornberg-Weiss

    As a whole, Kornberg-Weiss’s impulse is to emphasize the relation of one’s purview of histories...

    $16.00
  • Missing the Moon

    Missing the Moon

    By Bin Ramke

    This collection shows us how the poem’s purpose isn’t to contain or reflect or make...

    $17.95
  • Beyond the Chainlink

    Beyond the Chainlink

    By Rusty Morrison

    Morrison's Beyond the Chainlink is a beautifully written collection, as philosophical as it is concrete...

    $18
  • Ascension Theory

    Ascension Theory

    By Christopher Bolin

    Ascension Theory, Christopher Bolin’s debut collection, is a negotiation between the poetics of knowing and...

    $18
  • Practice on Mountains

    Practice on Mountains

    By David Bartone

    Bartone reveals the contemporary prose poem as inextricable from haiku, haibun, and the spare, image-driven...

    $18