The return of celebrated poet Jon Woodward, and finalist for the Barclay Prize for Poetry. THE AMBER IN AMBROSE is a dumping over of our current cultural milieu through, in the words of poet Major Jackson, a "dizzying sweep of registers of language...
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The vagaries of faith and desire are transliterated into the philosophical and revelatory in this playful Winner of the Barclay Prize for Poetry. To create SONGS IN E—— , Dan Brady ran Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese and ...
Propulsive, keenly observed stories of young people at the intersection of excess and perseverance, kinship and identity.Ranging from Austin to New Orleans, Richmond to Philly, the interrelated stories of THE DESPERADO DAYS lay bare the gritty lives...
Fiction. Poetry. African & African American Studies. Detectives Michael and Daniel must try to solve a murder on planet Earth. The victim may or may not be named Jane from Yesterday. And the Man of One Thousand Years, cult leader of the Architects o...
Fiction. Women's Studies. Winner of the Holland Prize for Fiction. Weaving together fabulist invention and gritty realism, Rebecca Fishow's debut collection, THE TROUBLE WITH LANGUAGE, unearths stories of men and women whose traumatic experiences ma...
Poetry. Art. The case of Wagner recounted here collects fragments from handwritten notebooks kept in the years following his death. The result is a poem that tracks many generations of Wagners, including a young Wagner who accidentally severed part ...
Fiction. Together for the first time, the interlinked tales of Stephen Dixon's DEAR ABIGAIL AND LATE STORIES in a beautifully designed set. "Reveals Stephen Dixon as one of the two great American storytellers today. The other is George Saunders."—El...
Fiction. THE HYPOTHETICAL MAN is a darkly humorous collection of stories featuring an assortment of anonymous characters—A, B, and S—all with problems. They work undercover at an amusement park in Illinois or else they work at a secret government fa...
Fiction. Stephen Dixon has long been considered one of America's preeminent literary innovators. From the National Book Award nominated Frog and Interstate, to His Wife Leaves Him and Letters to Kevin, Dixon's "unpredictable, often haunting fiction ...