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...
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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. In these works based on his Bagley Wright lectures on the poet Etheridge Knight, Terrance Hayes offers not quite a biography but a compilation "as speculative, motley, and adrift as Kn...
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...
Poetry. With breathtaking fervor, Sandra Simonds delivers an extended address to Orlando, which stands as both a city marked by vibrant promises fallen into betrayals and abuses and the specter of a past lover. Developing a series of recurring episo...
Poetry. "That's how one human leaves us," ends the first poem of Dara Wier's startling new collection, a surprisingly raw and fluid exploration of grief. Wier records her thoughts with clarity and immediacy, showing us the unraveling and reconstruct...
Poetry. Cedar Sigo's fourth collection restlessly enacts the pleasures of writing. With a mix of condensed, syllabic poems and longer serial pieces, and with many poems addressed to other poets, Sigo explores the romance of being a poet while also d...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Edited by Cedar Sigo. The inaugural book of Wave's new interview series, THERE YOU ARE combines 40 years of interviews, letters, poems, and journals to present a narrative of the remarkable poet Joanne Kyger, who has int...