Poetry. Moving from suburban spaces to the chaos of New York City and back again, the speaker of A FOREST ALMOST delights and despairs in a feeling of instability and flux. Memories are stirred up and confronted by a weird and equivocal world of met...
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Poetry. California Interest. The poems in ANTI-FACE form an irked missive from the failing state of the autobiographical lyric. You may not be able to tell just by looking at them, though. You're not going to get a story out of it, and there's no co...
Poetry. CAMERA is both paean and lament for a world in flux. To render such a world with its unresolvable tensions between time's embodiment and erasure is the focus of the collection. What does it mean to hold many irreconcilable presences? The tas...
Poetry. Hybrid Genre. CONFESSIONAL SCI-FI: A PRIMER is a book of in-between spaces and times. No one is quite what or where or when they seem to be. Each of the five prosepoetic pieces in the book has a narrative although it would be more difficult ...
Fiction. A shape-shifting presence named Genevieve unites these nine surreal stories, haunting the characters as they transcend and escape the traps of the everyday. Visions carried over from childish desire and imagination start to manifest in adul...
Fiction. Flash Fiction. HE ALWAYS STILL TASTES LIKE DYNAMITE is a flash-fictional evisceration of toxic masculinity, a difficult yet tender exploration of the implicit and explicit violences men do to those they are afraid to love, those they preten...
Poetry. The small poems in Patrick Culliton's collection SAM'S TEETH use the things and diction of rural and suburban Ohio life to immerse the reader in the melancholic world the poems inhabit. From taxidermy and barbecue sauce to schoolyards and th...
Fiction. Art. A young pioneer woman wanders into an oilfield guarded by a temporary Goliath who used to date her mother. An aspiring artist/entrepreneur marries a machine filled with birds to himself and his wife. A masculinity cult seeks the advice...
Poetry. Music. "Kearney's collection of opera libretti explodes with verbal inge-nuity, graphically lunging out at us like Marvel Comics sound effects meets Italo-Futurist cut-up. Stuck in a domestic cell or a tenement, his characters bust out in so...
Poetry. "Sarah Bartlett's poems are like icicles: crystalline, delicious, and capable of taking you down. 'We practice keeping our distances intact,' she writes in the stunning title poem of this collection, & that practice is both a feint and a con...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Hybrid Genre. Women's Studies. The inventive and lyrical essays that comprise TO THINK OF HER WRITING AWASH IN LIGHT take up the work of four women writers—Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Hettie Jones, and Anne Wald...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. "Roland Barthes introduces us to this remarkable book: a 'corrected banality.' I can imagine no better spokesperson than the one who announced the death of the author, for AS WE KNOW is truly a work of 'destroyed origin,...
Poetry. "It is a shadow of the uncanny, which is also an outline of experience, outlandishly exact, one in which we recognize ourselves."—Rusty Morrison"I am fascinated, drawn in again and again to Hummel's restless mind finding form."—Julie Carr"Th...
Fiction. Music. "The stories in James Brubaker's LINER NOTES are extraordinary, with lines that recall Ben Marcus and Gabriel Blackwell. It's amazing what Brubaker's fiction does with language and the obsession with music, sound, and pop culture. An...
Poetry. Winner of the Subito Book Prize, selected by Ruth Ellen Kocher. In BECAUSE I AM THE SHORE I WANT TO BE THE SEA, Ashley's fifth full-length collection, her narrator, through highly compressed, lyrical prose poems, engages in what she calls th...