MENU

It's our favorite time of the year at SPD, and to celebrate we've got EVERY book on our site on sale at 20% off! Below you'll find some recent releases we love, but don't let that stop you: EVERYTHING is 20% off! Just use code SOLSTICE23



Sift
Add to Shopping Cart 9781737925835
PAPERBACK$24.009/5/2023

Sift

The 3rd Thing

An invocation, an elegy, a way to begin after the end.Two women set out through the haze of social and environmental collapse in search of fertile soil. As they travel through deserts, burned-over forests, and lightless mountain caverns, they learn ...

Learn More...

Mechanical Bull
Add to Shopping Cart 9781734816792
PAPERBACK$18.0010/10/2023

Mechanical Bull

Cleveland State University Poetry Center

Poetry.

Learn More...


Commentary on the Birds
Add to Shopping Cart 9781734831672
PAPERBACK$18.0010/22/2023

Commentary on the Birds

Rescue Press

Literary Nonfiction. Essay. Art. Film. Nature. Asian & Asian American Studies. In his debut collection of essays, Jed Munson excavates the geopolitical reality and symbolic weight of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Drawing on his time as a Fulbright...

Learn More...

Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection
Add to Shopping Cart 9781732066632
PAPERBACK$20.0011/30/2022

Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection

Thick Press

A roadmap for those who are ready to deepen their commitment to social justice from racial justice advocate, Deepa Iyer. To engage in social change at this moment in time requires consistent attention, deep reflection, and committed collective ac...

Learn More...

Dark Beds
Add to Shopping Cart 9781735678375
PAPERBACK$16.0010/10/2023

Dark Beds

June Road Press

Diana Whitney’s seductive second collection juxtaposes the conflicted emotions of motherhood and domesticity with the intoxicating promises of transgression. Fantasies fulfilled or imagined play out against the haunted backdrop of Vermont’s woods an...

Learn More...

Girlfriends
Add to Shopping Cart 9781736716847
PAPERBACK$19.9510/17/2023

Girlfriends

LittlePuss Press

Seven heartstoppingly gorgeous stories about young transgender life from from the Upper Midwest to New York City. In seven light-filled prisms of short stories, Emily Zhou chronicles modern queer life with uncompromising and hilarious lucidity. Att...

Learn More...

Hamlet's Children
Add to Shopping Cart 9781734531367
PAPERBACK$21.008/15/2023

Hamlet's Children

Scarlet Tanager Books

A riveting new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Kluger “ with "A literary treasure for all World War II buffs set in Denmark during the 5-year Nazi occupation, Hamlet's Children is a major new historical novel by Pulitzer Prize-winne...

Learn More...

Boomhouse
Add to Shopping Cart 9781737925842
PAPERBACK$24.009/12/2023

Boomhouse

The 3rd Thing

Boomhouse thrums with loss, with complicated love, with fortitude. The poems travel a chain of rivers and lakes from the great timber stands of Canada to the dying mill towns of Maine, bending and rippling through history, oral accounts, superstitio...

Learn More...

Here in the Night
Add to Shopping Cart 9781625570574
PAPERBACK$21.957/21/2023

Here in the Night

Black Lawrence Press

The thirteen stories in Rebecca Turkewitz’s debut collection, Here in the Night, are engrossing, strange, eerie, and emotionally nuanced. With psychological insight and finely crafted prose, HERE IN THE NIGHT investigates the joys and constraints o...

Learn More...

ASSIA
Add to Shopping Cart 9781934819920
PAPERBACK$18.003/15/2023

ASSIA

Noemi Press

A novel from award-winning poet Sandra Simonds. With the lyric beauty of the poet she is, Sandra Simonds gives us a fresh portrait of Assia Wevill, a woman previously conceived mostly as a consort, a homewrecker, or a femme fatale. Simonds' novel r...

Learn More...


u know how much i hate being alone in social situations//
Add to Shopping Cart 9781733038485
PAPERBACK$20.006/14/2023

u know how much i hate being alone in social situations//

Futurepoem Books

Lawrence writes, ‘I should've made this metal body out of steel or something opalescent,’ and then, ‘...everything is so heavy.’ U KNOW... illuminates a frictive space made of heavy (and multiplicitous) bodies, absorption, emanation, so much looking...

Learn More...

Almost Obscene
Add to Shopping Cart 9781734816761
PAPERBACK$18.0010/4/2022

Almost Obscene

Cleveland State University Poetry Center

ALMOST OBSCENE is Gómez Jattin’s English-language debut. It includes work culled from his sporadic chapbooks, written from 1980-1997, showcasing a jaggedness of tone, approach, and mind space—precisely the unpredictability that made Gómez Jattin an...

Learn More...

Green Knife
Add to Shopping Cart 9781734831665
PAPERBACK$18.0010/24/2023

Green Knife

Rescue Press

Framed on the wall of our mordant modern living, Stella Corso’s evocative second collection, GREEN KNIFE, hangs firmly askew. In this annular and focused suite of poems, the flaneur’s gaze is provoked by—and attuned to—its caustic surroundings: a th...

Learn More...

Pinball Wizard
Add to Shopping Cart 9781733386487
PAPERBACK$15.008/15/2023

Pinball Wizard

IF SF Publishing

Michael D. Meloan’s new novella PINBALL WIZARD is a story of love, sex, jets, and Bukowski. Ralph is buffeted between a controlling father, international intrigue in the US defense industry, and a friendship with the writer Charles Bukowski. A wild ...

Learn More...

The Formation of Calcium
Add to Shopping Cart 9781943679157
PAPERBACK$20.003/29/2023

The Formation of Calcium

Spurl Editions

A horror story of one woman’s awful reinvention, M. S. Coe’s THE FORMATION OF CALCIUM is disturbingly funny and completely unexpected. Middle-aged Mary Ellen Washie has finally freed herself of her stultified past life in western New York state and...

Learn More...

The Hurricane Book: A Lyric History
Add to Shopping Cart 9781941628317
PAPERBACK$15.9510/24/2023

The Hurricane Book: A Lyric History

Rose Metal Press

In this powerful debut, Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones pieces together the story of her family and Puerto Rico using a captivating combination of historical facts, poems, maps, overheard conversations, and flash essays. Organized around six hurricanes tha...

Learn More...

The Forgotten Singer: The Exiled Sister of I.J. and Isaac Bashevis Singer
Add to Shopping Cart 9798987707807
PAPERBACK$18.957/18/2023

The Forgotten Singer: The Exiled Sister of I.J. and Isaac Bashevis Singer

White Goat Press

THE FORGOTTEN SINGER is a firsthand account of the tumultuous life of Esther Singer Kreitman - the forgotten sister of I.J. and Isaac Bashevis Singer. THE FORGOTTEN SINGER: THE EXILED SISTER OF I. J. AND ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER is made up of 46 evoca...

Learn More...

The Grid
Add to Shopping Cart 9798988904212
PAPERBACK$18.9911/1/2023

The Grid

Changes

Named Poetry Book of the Month by The Telegraph THE GRID is about the end of worlds, ancient and modern. In three sequences of poems interspersed with Mandel’s own translations from classical texts, figures of obsession and loneliness try to decryp...

Learn More...

Punks: New & Selected Poems
Add to Shopping Cart 9781737277521
PAPERBACK$20.0012/1/2021

Punks: New & Selected Poems

The Song Cave

Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry 2022. A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John Keene, PUNKS: NEW & SELECTED POEMS is a generous treasury in seven sections that spans decades and ...

Learn More...

The Speak Angel Series
Add to Shopping Cart 9781737803621
PAPERBACK$27.952/21/2023

The Speak Angel Series

Fonograf Editions

Composed of six interrelated full-length collections, THE SPEAK ANGEL SERIES is a work of stunning accomplishment and ambition by Alice Notley, winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation, among many other honors. THE SPEAK ANG...

Learn More...

What Just Happened
Add to Shopping Cart 9781959708001
PAPERBACK$20.008/14/2023

What Just Happened

Winter Editions

In WHAT JUST HAPPENED, Richard Hell’s new poems are interspersed with images created for the book by Christopher Wool. Hell’s 2019 valedictory of an essay, “Falling Asleep,” which asserts his dreamy conclusions regarding the nature of reality, and “...

Learn More...


SAVE 20% ON ALL THESE TITLES AND MORE WITH CODE SOLSTICE23






Sign up for SPD e-newsletters