Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. A rich array of materials coalesce here into a vibrant portrait, in text and image, of two extraordinary artists and collaborators. For nearly sixty years, the Waldrops have influenced multiple generations of writers thr...
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Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. LOVE THREE is a study of a seventeenth-century devotional poem by George Herbert; an essay on eroticizing power; and a memory palace of sexual experiences, fantasies, preferences, and limits—with Herbert's poem as the ke...
Poetry. In HEAR TRAINS, Caroline Knox seeks further contexts for her striking diction and syntax to establish new forms of understanding. With her signature wit and erudition, she plumbs the depths of etymology, reading, art, and nature, of comma sp...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Taking readers from suburban carports to wintry Russian novels, from summer tomato gardens to the sublime interiors of presleep thoughts, Magdalena Zurawski's poems anchor the complexities of our interconnected world in the ...
Poetry. With his fifth collection of poems, Michael Earl Craig delivers a fresh set of tableaux that have us squinting aslant at the ordinary. Dexterously constructed, the scenes, conversations, letters, instructions, stories, bios, and little fable...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. California Interest. PRESERVING FIRE recounts the life and thought of Surrealist, Beat Generation, and San Francisco Renaissance poet Philip Lamantia through his fugitive prose works. Ranging from poetry to politics to m...
Poetry. Anselm Berrigan's eighth collection of poems, SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY, is exactly as its title describes. Wide-ranging in forms, densities, and aesthetics—and written from numerous collaborations, prompts, and influences—these poems express ...
Poetry. Latinx Studies. What does a book want to be in anyone's hands but an infinite word object? XOETEOX is a dare into perception, traversing territories of language, sound, and the visual page. At the intersection of identity, performance, and t...
Poetry. Chelsey Minnis's new collection of poems follows the struggle of a flawed character in a cinematic world. Playing with old ideas of wealth and love from Hollywood's golden era, these poems flirt with nostalgia without ever succumbing to it, ...
Fiction. Poetry. Art. When Danielle Dutton's SPRAWL first broke upon the world in 2010, critics likened it to collage, a poetics of the suburbs, a literal unpacking of et cetera. This updated edition, with a new afterword by Renee Gladman, reopens t...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. African & African American Studies. Finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle award for Criticism. In these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. During 2014, Wave Books editor Joshua Beckman traveled around the country giving lectures on poetry. Collected here as two books in conversation—and inaugurating Wave's Bagley Wright Lecture Series publications—these tal...
Poetry. BODY & GLASS extends Rodney Koeneke's experimentations in Etruria with a tightly woven set of more compact poems that brighten and sharpen the lyric's usual corners. The "anonymous" forms of folk song and epitaph, parable and textual fragmen...
Poetry. EXPERIENCE IN GROUPS sings and thinks the forms of belonging that organize our lives, offering poems that move with honesty and formal intelligence between the individual and the collective. In a time of ascendant fascism and creative politi...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. In her latest collection, Dorothea Lasky brings her signature style—a deeply felt and uncanny word-music—to all matters of creativity, from poetry and the invention of new language to motherhood and the production of new...