Book Reviews
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Not for Luck
Sheffield is emotionally present without sentimentality or clever guile. He offers us a gift of...
$15.95
The Best Prey
Quiñones situates desire as the fluxing heart of the collection and imbues its hunger with...
$17.95
We the Jury
Creating sympathy is the poet’s role, and learning to sympathize is our only salvation....
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wyrd] bird
Stancek opens a dialectic between the speaker and mystic Hildegard of Bingen that will surface,...
$17.95
The Earliest Witnesses
These poems teach us about the sacrilege and sacraments of ingestion, the body our only...
$18.95
Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader
Avant Desire offers an introduction to Brossard’s erotic lyricism and the span of her queer...
$26.95
Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
Through this story of disobedient femininity, of a body turned against itself, of beginning with...
$16.00
original kink
What is it to write according to a socially engaged poetics, to demand of one’s...
$18.00
Rough Song
Rough Song represents the first English translation of Blanca Varela, a major figure in twentieth-century...
$17.95
Sense Violence
The Swedish title of Helena Boberg’s second collection, Sinnesvåld (translated as Sense Violence by Johannes...
$16.00
Sisyphusina
Proximity is often a necessary discussion tool for intimacy. Not that there is a prerequisite...
$16.00
Rain in Plural
Poetry is engaged to dreams or a dream-state, and the surprising word-choices shift us into...
$17.95
La Chica’s Field Guide to Banzai Living
Through imperial violence we are made alien in our own land. “This belongs to you....
$17.95
Hot with the Bad Things
Grieving violence creates a kind of horrific palimpsest of how the public choruses events....
$16.95
Paper Bells
Awash with wandering loneliness, Phan’s lines vacillate from contemplative to biting, economical to allegorical...
$17.95
The Fire Eater
Herein lies the beauty of Hernandez Diaz’s poetry: what is real is up for grabs,...
$16.95
A Princess Magic Presto Spell
Jarnot’s poetry can serve as a model for a mother’s creativity and nurturing—a way to...
$16.95
The Voice of Sheila Chandra
Ali strives to throw words out to the cosmos with the velocity of an electron....
$17.95
Ajar To The Night
The book ajar, we witness ourselves becoming somewhat else. Ajar To The Night, we slip...
$4.99
Thrown in the Throat
Garcia’s “throat is [a] throne,” a poetics of reclamation and sensual pleasure. Yield to and...
$16.00