Beautiful Soul: An American Elegy

Joshua Corey

The push-pull between stunning language and inventive narrative is pure pleasure.

               Laird Hunt

One Foot Out The Door: The Collected Stories of Lewis Warsh

He Knows

What A Stick Is

Russell Brickey

"He kid, kid, are you a fairy?"

To Kill A Cardinal

Michael Rumaker

Fictional Classic telling of the ACT-UP protest staged at St. Patrick's Cathedral in 1989.

Venice Is For Cats

Nava Renek

Ethel Renek

Libretto for the Exhausted World

Michael Fisher

An invigorating book—and a cause for gratitude.

                Peter Campion

The Day He's Gone

Poems 1990-2013

Paweł Marcinkiewicz

trans. by Piotr Florczyk

...love letters to the act of living.

                     Mary Jo Bang

Gadsden

Rich Blevins

Poem sequence inspired by Roberto Bolano.

Silence of Memory

Serge Gavronsky

     ...dialogues on the two fronts of the war between terror and authority.

    Harold Bloom "On Gavronsky"

Wandering Electron

Lee Slonimsky

Naked Noah

Rich Blevins

Poem sequence inspired by the painter James Ensor.

Semi-Sleep

Ken Baron

With Semi-Sleep, Baron decodes the American everyday.

       Liesl Schillinger

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

Lawfully Wedded Wives

ed. Nona Caspers &

Joell Hallowell

20 tales of love, sex, and commitment in the 21st Century—spiritual and scandalous, philosophical and trivial, heartbreaking and hilarious.

State of the Union

Susan Lewis

Lewis’s impeccable attention to the “song of the illusive spheres” will leave you stunned and in stitches.

             MICHAEL BOUGHN

Modern Adventures

Bill Evans

These are the heartbeats of an ancient man looking at history from left to right and now staring us right in the eye. We are not alone.

         Eileen Myles

Abroad: An Expatriate's Diaries 1950-1959

Harriet Sohmers Zwerling

A well-observed account of the texture of life for those resistant spirits who actively held out against the cultural norms of 1950’s America.

                        Moe Angeles

Elsa

Tsipi Keller

Elsa is the final psychological portrait in Keller’s trilogy (after Maggie in Jackpot, and Sally in Retelling).

Nighthawks

Katherine Hastings

She becomes in effect a soothsayer of stars and taps into the music of their stillness as they witness the coincidental paths we take in our lives.

              Colleen McElroy

Wandering On Course

Robert Podgurski

Sufi-dancing at the center of an elemental hora ...

          Andrei Codrescu

The Tommy Plans

Cooper Renner

Wreckage of Reason II: Back to the Drawing Board

ed. Nava Renek & Natalie Nuzzo

Identity Collages

j/j hastain

The Artaud Variations

Peter Valente

Proof

Elizabeth J. Coleman

She is in love with life and relishes the gifts—even including mortality—in plain, but cunning, speech.

             Gerald Stern

But They, Um:

A Play in One Act

Jennie Neighbors

A devastating tableau to stand as monument to the language of law surrounding and issuing from the Bybee memo on torture and detainees at Guatanamo Airforce Base.

Grass Grows Inward

Andreas Neeser

trans. Marc Vincenz

Neeser plays his concentrated language game with finesse. He is a man of soft-spoken nuances.

             Basler Zeitung

Out of the Dust

Klaus Merz

trans. Marc Vincenz

A master of the precise aperçu, of distillation and insinuation...

      Neue Züricher Zeitung am Sonntag