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“Memory has profound resonance in our time of relative truth, greed and indifference to history. This powerful book is more relevant than ever.”

Meredith Monk

"The book takes direct aim at the fantasies of some males, making them so extreme that their absurdity becomes crystal clear."

Jefferson Hansen at Rain Taxi

Delivered on the fine line between the ludic and the sublime, Sine Wave is ultimately concerned with a woman whose music ushers her through life and death...

For five decades, Quasha has fearlessly and lucidly in poetry, essays, anthologies and interviews built a poetics of radical utterance, a poetry of the word unleashed from melody, set free from number—into pure saying.

Robert Kelly

Shelter in Place is a warning, a slap in the face, a kick in the ass, a pre-apocalyptic prayer, a guide to action where “agency” equals “lullaby elegy power.”

Kara Dorris

Provocative, haunting, dreamlike, these poems model a suffusion of presences unlike anything else in contemporary poetry.

Elizabeth Robinson

Eva Skrande’s wonderful poems arise from a tradition which might be termed transpersonal or subpersonal.

Bill Knott

"Notes focuses on those energies in art that enact image spaces and spatiotemporal alterations in which life is never quite what it seems to be."

Brendan Moran

Riveting—and outraging—The Boy Who Listened to Paintings is a warmly brilliant memoir of adolescence and mental health to inspire all of us.

Molly Peacock

"...this breath of fresh air, this right to innocence, obtained of course through difficult struggle I have always appreciated in these immense transatlantic poets ... a similar “oxygenation” in the poems of Steve Light."

Mehdi Belhaj Kacem

"This masterpiece reads like a grand parable.”

Joachim Mols

"Doubiago writes of them, she tells the truth as she sees it, but there is no vindictiveness. There is rarely even anger, just sadness and pity for what could have been or even was..."

Rebecca Cuthbert, in ABR

"Martin is a master of connecting seemingly disparate ideas and imagery, drawing the illuminative conclusion that within all that connective tissue lies our freedom."

Karen Herceg in ABR

"In the recurring dream, Merton in mufti doesn’t expect me here, where the red sun is always diving into the Kentucky nob."

What the orphan finds is not perhaps his own people but a deep history, a telling and re-telling of bodies of water, trees and their shadows, ancestors around tables, earth light; these are the things that make the circling shape of voice.

Eleni Sikelianos

Brenna Womer breaks all the rules except the most important one: to tell your own truth unswervingly, in the best way you know how, no matter what.

Matt Bell

From one of Italy’s most widely read and deeply treasured poets: an essential collection of verse, selected from all five of his major works, bringing this unique, mesmerizing voice to an English-speaking audience for the first time.

Disoriented by culture shock, preyed upon by ghosts from a haunted past, Marty falsifies his résumé to become manager of a fleabag hotel.

"... based on true stories from Levitin’s own family. Soviet work camps, flights from the Nazis, massacres at the Ninth Fort – Levitin’s most powerful writing can be found in these horrific, elegiac historical episodes"

Hot Lit recommended, ExBerliner

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Dispatches Editions

Resist Much Anthology

Roots & Branches Series

Danish Literature in Translation

Investigative Poetry

A Curriculum of the Soul

Lori Anderson Moseman

Harriet Sohmers Zwerling

Lori Anderson Moseman

Norman Finkelstein

"...not only the complexity of the text made it a daunting task for a skilled translator to undertake but also the challenge of communicating in another language a deeply seeded trauma of Ukraine and its people, masterfully portrayed by Matios."

Natalia Cousineau, World Literature Today

But the need to find a home and something to sustain them is great: “So here we are digging, digging / until we’re wild, find water.”

Michael Quinn in The Gertrude

He is a man in the prime of his life, yet still everything seems to be falling apart. His problems begin when he has intercourse with a Russian student in the Muslim prayer room at the University.

Seley’s extremely stylistic lyricism and command of language will make readers feel as though they are in the hands of someone with immense wisdom.

from the review in Luna Luna

Koenegracht’s verses are unpredictable and that is exactly his strength.

Rudy Kousboek

Partly is a wonderland greenhouse that Jack built and then allowed us to enter and it glows like a signal that means human beings can be great observers and creators of beauty and fun, all because of what exists.

Bernadette Mayer

Kelly is the best and necessary kind of poetic voice—incandescent, powerful, genuine, and brilliantly funny.

Richard Martin

Money stuns and delights in its sampling and juxtaposition. Imagine Yoko Ono’s Grapefruit upgraded to the era of #FakeNews.

William Lessard

"A riveting story that is at once shattering and wildly engaging."

Lisa Lutz

"In a world that often feels hopeless, Panepinto makes you want to believe."

Robert Walicki

"The body politic is sick, and the mad military leader narrating these poems is its demented head of state."

Brian Henry

"...but can they not also see my enormous bulk? Butch heart pumping opus dragging tankard legs along the roads on which I walk?"

El Misterio Nadal is weird, funny, thoroughly documented, and ‘gets’ Bolaño perfectly.

Chris Andrews

It’s about false endings and true beginnings and all the jagged mysteries that attend the human journey.

Laird Hunt

"...That’s why sometimes it pays to be crazy.”

“unflinching and heartfelt . . . . Then, there gives us Newark, if Newark were home.”

Annie Liontas

"Michael Keenan is a reborn troubadour…I always thought his poems silvery and charitable…I admire their lateral drift, their intimate evocation of names, their evanescence."

C.D. Wright

"Beth Benedix is a professor of religious studies, world literature and community engagement and in her book Ghost Writer (A Story about Telling a Story), she explores the ethics of narrative."

examiningethics.org

"A compelling mix of critical theory and personal remembrances..."

Lambda Literary

"What appear to be loosely woven pieces of philosophy and bits of untold historical drama have a way of revealing something elemental about human perception and the art of storytelling itself."

Zone3

It’s rare to be so enmeshed in reading a novel, and rarer still in one whose sentences you covet, whose words are like precious stones.

Vincent Katz

Jordan Blum speaks with Spryszak about Edju, Thrice Fiction, the debate over paying/non-paying journals, the world of surrealist writing, music, and much more.

Cover to Cover podcast

“...these beautifully constructed stories—profound, humane, dark, and yet illuminated by love and belief in humanity—bring us into the heart of the global catastrophes facing our species and our planet today.”

Amy Wilentz

"This is a treasure, a caravanserai of a book, erudite, personal, enlightening."

Anne Waldman

“...reminded of the haunts of an older world, of a world that is far less abstracted, far less buried, far more present, far more accessible. The elusive image, the Sugar Factory itself, a nothing-place filled with the nothing that is life, experience, and contentment.”

Yellow Rabbits

“So rich, so plentiful in terms of its rhythms, emotions, images, transitions, its subtlety. A very giving novel, a lot for the reader, this reader to think on.”

Norma Cole

“While many of the situations described here seem familiar — a trip to CVS, a young daughter who explodes when told it's time for dinner — they're presented with an edginess and sharp intelligence that makes the poems pop.”

Washington Post Book World

"I need data, information—but that is not what I want from poetry or any art form. Yes, poetry has its crafty elements. But you shouldn’t see the machinations of craft right off. As for syntax? Syntax is a kind of music, is it not? And some music comes from a far country . . ."

Karen Garthe interviewed in Rain Taxi

"Kuppers transforms prose stories into lyric meditations in ways that are convincing and disarming in their beauty."

PANK

"Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light is a testament to how poetry can take us where no other written work dares to tread."

—San Francisco Book Review

"Along with viewing illuminated manuscripts and explorations of dazzling manifestations of light, Babbitt extols the joy of reading with a poet’s enthusiasm."

—Colorado Review