Poetry. Latinx Studies. YAVIZA, the title of Roberto Harrison's new book, is also the name of a small Panamanian jungle town with a declining population and a colonized history. YAVIZA marks the end of the Panamerican Highway and hence, perhaps, of ...
Learn More...
Poetry. A collection twenty years in the making, THE BRIGHT RED HORSE—AND THE BLUE— is a meditation on longing, love, and heart break as they manifest in lyric form. A series of thirty-one unusually sculptural pieces, the poems are, by turns, seduct...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Art. Photography. Hybrid Genre. Performance Studies. Includes 32 pages of full–color textscapes, 25 half–tone documentary photos, and cover art by the author.THE REPUBLIC OF EXIT 43 is a verbal/visual archaeology of the ...
Poetry. In MERRY HELL, Helen of Troy exposes the "misogynist spell" of the traditional (patriarchal) narrative that condemns her for the horrors of the Trojan War and insists "LET ME TELL YOU ALL THE TRUTH OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO ME".As it happened,...
Poetry. Music. THE COFFIN NAIL BLUES is Ted Pearson's latest work, comprising sixty-four poems in eight movements. In these poems, the spirit of the blues suffuses a formally concise blend of epigram and epitaph, verse and prose, to produce "a time-...
Poetry. The poems in this book are attempts at keeping time. A sonnet sequence constructed by writing one line a day with a month passing in between every line of each sonnet, and each of the lines tweeted immediately after being written, NOTCHED SU...
Poetry. The subtitle to JOURNEY TO THE SUN offers this exacting summary: "Wherein the Author recounts his travels, at the tender age of Thirteen, to the Source of All Life, accompanyied by his father's employer, Mister George Westinghouse, and not n...
Poetry. African American Studies. "I began writing HOWELL about fifteen years ago in the wake of the Oklahoma bombing and subsequent trials of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols (Michael Fortier was given partial immunity in exchange for his testimon...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. PREDICTIONARY is about blank spaces in language and culture and their formative role in conceptual and artistic creativity. It is a dictionary of would-be words that are designed to fill gaps in language and generate new...
Poetry. LGBT Studies. Erik JM Schneider says that he was professionally trained to draw connections between things which have absolutely nothing in common. In ONE LAST DITCH, he makes this education concrete, mixing prose with lyricism while entwini...
Fiction. LGBT Studies. African American Studies. A true account of a fictional work. "I see the sentence as this thing you are moving through. You encounter words and punctuation the same way you would see a building or turn onto a street."
Poetry. Patrick Durgin and Jen Hofer met in a supermarket in Iowa City in 1998. They have not lived in the same city since 1999. Jen currently lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches poetics in the MFA Writing Program at CalArts and works as a court...
Poetry. PARSE is a translation of Edwin A. Abbott's How to Parse: An Attempt to Apply the Principles of Scholarship to English Grammar. First published in 1874, the book played a leading role in the pedagogic debate over whether English should be an...
Literary Nonfiction. Juliana Spahr has lived in many places, including Chillicothe (Ohio), Buffalo (New York), Honolulu (Hawaii), and Brooklyn (New York). She has absorbed, participated in, and been transformed by the politics and ecologies of each....
Poetry. Using "ambient language"-fragments, excerpts, stage directions, echoes, conversation snippets, syntactic undulation, and rigorous sonic chaos-Edwin Torres creates an alchemy of language, what he calls "electrobabble" and "algorithmictotem." ...