Both Sides Of The Niger

Andrew Kaufman

For many years I have admired the restless and generously spirited poems of Andrew Kaufman. He really does go to both sides of the Niger--both literally and metaphorically. This is not only a splendid book but it's also splendid journey!

                Thomas Lux

Ashes Rain Down

William Luvaas

Jaw-droppingly brilliant and downright transcendent. 

        Caroline Leavitt

The Ivory Hour

Laynie Browne

Laynie Browne channels the energy of Mirabai in a book that is both charred and luminous. Her writing is a gift of abrasion, making the body of the reader a portal too.

           Bhanu Kapil

Black Mountain Days

Michael Rumaker

Michael Rumaker’s finely detailed, evocative memoir puts personal flesh on Black Mountain College’s historical bones.

SOS

Song of Songs of Solomon:

A Queer Translation

j/j hastain

The narrative seems to operate simultaneously as a spiritual and physical pilgrimage.

    Marthe Reed

Up Fish Creek Road

& other stories

David Matlin

Exiled From The Womb

Tales of a Women's Doctor

Adrian Sangeorzan

Adrian Sangeorzan understands intuitively with his heart and talent—and that is what he tells his reader in every story. This is not a belle lettre but a real voice talking about real things.               

     Andrey Gritsman

Approximating Diapason

j/j hastain & t thilleman

Struggling to find a mythos to convey our early twenty-first-century malaise, hastain and thilleman approximate a “diapason,” a “fixed standard of pitch,” a “compass of a voice.”  

       The Brooklyn Rail

The Propaganda Factory,

or Speaking of Trees

Marc Vincenz

Blueprints for a Genocide

Rob Cook

Here comes a voice. Deal with it. 

    John Goode

My Last Century

Joanna Sit

Joanna Sit recognizes the poem as a journey, as a lived experience, as meditation.

           Brian Turner

Eroticizing the Nation:

Michael Rumaker's Fiction

Second Edition, New and Revised

Leverette T. Smith, jr.

Theaters of Skin

Gordon Osing &

Tom Carlson

The Prison Notebooks of Alan Krieger (Terrorist)

Marc Estrin

Pagan Days

Michael Rumaker

Mating in Captivity

Nava Renek

Pitch-perfect stories of men and women, lust and disappointment, intoxication and betrayal.

    Lynda Schor

Watch the Doors as They Close

SD Novella Series

Karen Lillis

What I love most about Karen Lillis’ writing is it makes me want to be a writer. We need more writers excited about the world than people who neuter it. 

          Scott McClanahan

Cloud Fire

Katherine Hastings

Katherine Hastings is a poet whose words embody light; she is the ambassador of luminescence to American poetry today. 

             Lee Slonimski

Gnostic Frequencies

Patrick Pritchett

One Romantic quest to make an infinite book.

Cadences

j/j hastain

cadences is a dissection of love and space and sex that will teach you the new gender-language while pulling your chest open.

          Sarah Rose Etter

Sketches in Norse & Forra

t thilleman

Kissing Nests

Werner Lutz

trans. from the German by

Marc Vincenz

Multifesto:

The Remix Edition

edited by Davis Schiedermann

& Phoenelia Yeer

A must read! 

    Jaques Fromage,

             Le Merde (Livres du Mort)

Remains to be Seen

Halvard Johnson

Probably everyone who reads poetry year after year knows of a favorite poet whose reputation should be larger than it is, and my candidate for that position is Halvard Johnson. 

     Charles Baxter

The Number of Missing

Adam Berlin

Berlin’s book is shattering, real, first-person history, made intimate by a narrator forced to stare at himself against the hole of Ground Zero. 

      James Frey,

           author of A Million Little Pieces