Poetry. A long poem that's an essay but not, a work of philosophy but not, a gently stated argument that seems to have multiple points heading in multiple directions; a text about nature but also about thinking, language, identity, consciousness, sc...
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Poetry. ARCH tracks the provisionality of shelters, bodies, and built American things by writing through one of the first Western attempts to legitimize architecture as a discipline: Vitruvius's Ten Books on Architecture. Inspired by Vitruvius's con...
Poetry. In a series of tattered sequences and oddly-angled lyrics, LATE ALONG THE EDGELANDS sketches an attenuated present. Remaining within a relatively circumscribed lexis and store of images—those of the littoral, the mid-sea, the edges of severa...
Poetry. TRACE ELEMENTS is a trio of serial poems—"Double Vision," "Four in One," and "Transient Graphs"—that make up the second movement of a work called "Analog Dreams," written over the past decade. If the tone of these poems is dark, and it is, a...
Poetry. A collection of work by innovative Australian poets whose work shares an interest in "a primary art of transformation in language" (from the introduction). All contributors traveled to the San Francisco Bay Area in April 2016 to participate ...
Poetry. Two points of reference may be useful for orienting readers to the sequence of short works that comprise Nick Hoff's first book of poetry: the poetry of Paul Celan and the cinematic long take—a prolonged perceptual image that's presented wit...
Literary Nonfiction. Cinema Studies.Revised 3rd Edition. This new edition includes additions and changes related to the author's understanding of Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc as well as other smaller clarifications. Dorsky has be...
Poetry. "Ann Simon's extraordinary writing moves deftly among genres of abbreviation: a diary of poignant impressions, the crystallization of nearly lost moments, aphorism, prose poem, and elegy. She writes, 'I collect loose approximations of forms,...
Poetry. "Written, designed and typeset by Travis Ortiz, VARIOUSLY, NOT THEN is a confoundingly complex cross-genre work touching upon meaning, loss, memory and return. Part-prose, part-poetry, part-essay, part-aphorism, part-philosophy, part-graphic...
Literary Nonfiction. Between 1977 and 1985, Bill Berkson and Bernadette Mayer interviewed each other on a range of topics. Collected here for the first time, the resulting documents, along with accompanying letters, are variously celebratory, flirta...
Literary Nonfiction. Why do a second edition of DISTRACTED? According to the author, "Because it is now starkly clear to me that there is a limited number of concepts, figures and postures that a writer is here to create and possibly elaborate (in m...
Poetry. Across several decades, Lyn Hejinian has been constructing an exemplary and profoundly influential body of exploratory work, work of a discrepant lucidity that undermines commonplace assumptions of the permissible and the possible. Her poetr...
Poetry. "I am very much interested in abstraction in language, in pushing language to the point that it becomes fact itself rather than some intermediary or condition."—Lyn HejinianWritten between November 20, 2000, and September 24, 2001, SLOWLY ex...
Poetry. Collom rejects the notion that a distinction exists between the quotidian and the poetic. His poems assert that poetry is everywhere. But to find poetry everywhere means that one incessantly engages the world at the poetic level. The result ...
Fiction. Subtitled "A Detective Novel Series," ORCHID JETSAM includes two closely related mysteries, "Orchid Jetsam" and "Clear Land." In the first, San Francisco homicide detective Grace Abe--inhabited by the ghost of a U.S. Marine who had been an ...