Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. "THE DIARY OF A K-DRAMA VILLAIN questions, 'what's in between?' to plumb the self and selfie as vernacular subject—as vernacular object—as vernacular space as in '/…our flops on perf English/'. Kang's poems th...
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Poetry. The second book from Atlanta poet James Sanders, author of GOODBYE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE (BlazeVox, 2008). These are poems unlike anything you've ever seen before—visual, performative, hilarious, and absolutely brilliant.
Poetry. "Arielle Greenberg's SLICE is a challenging and turbulent collection that captures the havoc of motherhood and sexuality. In sprawling, omnivorous verse and prose that seem to be written in a fury, Greenberg reveals the terrifying anxieties ...
Poetry. "These poems by Alexis Pope make the stars fall out of my ears. Her words are the 'pale flight of fire' that connect the dying self to the living self. What do we want, anyway, but to 'kill you so you will feel / only me forever?' We want to...
Poetry. "Like Frank O'Hara, Gobble wears work-shirts to the opera and his feet are bare—these poems aren't just one thing, or another, they are instead stuffed with so much energy that they are spilling all over the pages. Like industrious, tiny hum...
Poetry. This is Carina Finn's second full-length collection of poetry.
Poetry. "Natasha Kessler's DISMANTLING THE RABBIT ALTAR resides deep in the uncanny forest of the unconscious—among the decaying vestiges of a crumbling industrialization, in which myth is rebirthed as a burning paper bird. In these uneasily unravel...
Poetry. "Emily Toder's BEACHY HEAD brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear the currents of Alice Notley, of Bernadette Mayer, of Eileen Myles, and Sylvia P...
Poetry. "Shelly Taylor's LIONS, REMONSTRANCE is full of lovely, lilting surprises, tragic transformations, words that explode and strike. There are watercolor mothers, the I as slippage, radical home-makings and unmakings, dizzied memories that tigh...
Poetry. Asian American Studies. "'I wanted to be a priori but I was processed meat.' In Ji Yoon Lee's evisceral-guidebook-cum-cautionary-tale, roadkill reassembles itself into a zombie-dolly, her head screwed to the mouth of a gun, and through this ...
Poetry." It took almost a lifetime's worth of emotions to read Lauren Ireland's THE ARROW. She says Time eats at the edges of things so we hear her say other things, too, I am hating you from very far away and I am a grownup/flying right into the mo...
Poetry. "DORK SWAGGER is like that time I was wearing men's pants and met Mike Watt. Or when I had sex on the lawn across the street from a yardsale. It always feels good before it doesn't. Friends, this book could be your life. Your problems that a...
Poetry. Winner of the 2013 Elizabeth P. Braddock Prize for Poetry. "In DUST JACKET, Alexis Orgera sits down in the middle of the earth, and watches it revolve around her and all of us—any way the wind blows, sunny Alexis! Then she writes some senten...
Poetry. "Amber Nelson's distinct and densely sounded lyrics seem at first to come from another age, to rhyme and pun with another language. But they shoot out 'bow and error' in surprising ways, and Nelson finds life aplenty in her 'wild conservatio...
Poetry. "Gina Myers' aptly-named HOLD IT DOWN chronicles the endless effort to keep a lid on hope, that feathered thing that must be denied so the rent can be paid. Everything else Pandora's box let loose has hung around—boredom, sickness, lonelines...