Poetry. As a bird learns to sing first by listening, Andy Stallings's PARADISE is attuned and attentive to surrounding song. Stallings's second collection's interests are as various as the paradises that scaffold a life: paradises lost in memory's m...
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Poetry. "Everybody / should be throwing up all of the time," insists Philip Sorenson's incendiary and tender second collection SOLAR TRAUMA, a book that defies category in deference to the "uncontainableness of things." Sorensen writes to expose cla...
Fiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a r...
Poetry. Like the most formidable silver-screen comediennes, Stella Corso's debut collection TANTRUM is at once incisive and generous, candid and performative, full of coos and barbed truths. "I like that I can be a little dumb with you," one poem mu...
Poetry. In her debut collection WHAT WAS IT FOR, Adrienne Raphel revitalizes the topsy-turvy lyric and its evergreen sagacity. Through playground doggerel, charm, and riddle, these poems cry fair and foul to a world where pâté geese dabble in fields...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. DIVING MAKES THE WATER DEEP is a memoir about cancer, teaching, and poetic friendship. Alternately wise and wild, humorous and moving, Savich writes of illness and illness narratives, the present moment, pain, memory, de...
Poetry. "I need a safe house everywhere I go. / The invasions are every day," writes Vanessa Jimenez Gabb in her dazzling debut collection of poetry, IMAGES FOR RADICAL POLITICS. Gabb's book begins with an economic update and moves through scenes of...
Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. Hilary Plum's WATCHFIRES is an intimate account of public and private life during the long years of the "war on terror." This remarkable essay begins in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing and illuminates the r...
Poetry. Melissa Dickey's rending and sparely lyric second collection, DRAGONS, moves in five exacting suites. Or should we call them acts? These long poems are cobbled between self and selves, in the fleshed halo of space that separates even the clo...
Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. Hybrid Genre. ESTRANGER begins with a memoirist's problem—the suppressed story of a grandfather's death on the south side of Chicago in 1984—but ESTRANGER is no memoir. ESTRANGER reexamines and reinvents genre, as one ...
Poetry. Sara Deniz Akant's BABETTE, selected by Maggie Nelson for Rescue Press' Black Box Poetry Prize, mixes motor-thrum with incantation, promising to "make no pattern / known again." Perpetually on the move, BABETTE's populous—from Penny "turned ...
Poetry. Dot Devota's THE DIVISION OF LABOR, selected as the Editor's Choice for Rescue Press' Black Box Poetry Prize, tethers the eerie echoes of political and cultural rhetoric to a stunning and documentary peripatetic prophecy; "topic sentences" d...
Poetry. In ON HOURS, his second stunning collection, Marc Rahe reveals himself as an occasionally grave and often humorous master of observation whose poems note the natural in the mechanical and the wild in the wonder. Rahe's lines track such gestu...
Fiction. Do we call TOUGHLAHOMA the satire we all deserve, a monstrously true fable of the late days of capitalism? We could say, for instance, that TOUGHLAHOMA crosses Vico's early sociological theories with Hobbes's and Locke's conflicting notions...
Poetry. Lauren Haldeman's inventive debut, CALENDAY, plays and challenges with equal force: "Up from my heart / I thought of my head, / and my heart came true." These poems travel the sleep-deprived, hallucinogenic landscape of parenting a newborn—f...