Intro to Poetry

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. GARMENTS AGAINST WOMEN is a book of mostly lyric prose about the conditions that make literature almost impossible. It holds a life story without a life, a lie spread across low-rent apartment complexes, dreamscapes, and information networks.... read more

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. African American Studies. Asian American Studies. LGBT Studies. FARTHER TRAVELER by Ronaldo Wilson is an expansive, complex hybrid of poetry, prose, and memoir that engages with contemporary culture, race and sexuality..... read more

Poetry. African & African American Studies. Douglas Kearney writes, "If my writing makes a mess of things, it's not to flee understanding, but to map (mis-)understanding as a verb." The map's guide is MESS AND MESS AND, in which Kearney defines the terms... read more

Poetry. Women's Studies. In TENDER DATA Monica McClure breaks down and breaks into various identities, each of them hashtagged in the discourses of their time and place, whether macha or chiflada, couture or fast fashion, acephale or technocrat: "I want to be so... read more

Poetry. First in a trilogy of texts, BETWEEN GRAMMARS is a book-length narrative poem composed of prose-fragments that investigates the boundaries between books and the bodies that read and write them. Within these pages, language becomes a living organism... read more

Poetry. Chosen by the Poetry Foundation as one of the best poetry books of 2009. Jennifer Moxley's CLAMPDOWN captures a time of political despair and self-doubt. Our "so-called common ground" erodes where liberal thought, implicated in the systems it critiques, finds no traction and becomes the site of new divisions... read more

Poetry. Edited by Lee Ann Brown. SONNETS, first published in 1989 as Tender Buttons Number 1 is widely considered to be one of the most generative and innovative works of contemporary American poetry, radically rethinking the traditional sonnet form. This expanded... read more

Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. A provocative new collection examining the power of language and race in contemporary culture by a leading American poet. Dawn Lundy Martin's LIFE IN A BOX IS A PRETTY LIFE investigates the ways in which language claims... read more

Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. LGBT Studies. CAConrad's ECODEVIANCE contains twenty-three new (Soma)tic writing exercises and rituals, plus their resulting poems. These exercises, unorthodox steps in the writing process, work to break the reader and writer out of the quotidian... read more

Poetry. A new edition of Ronald Johnson's masterpiece, edited by Peter O'Leary... read more

Poetry. "A reverie of tears & love & fears, an attempt to make sense of our core confusions while talking to the sun & the sea & Van Morrison, a book written to attempt the world into something real, Seth Landman's CONFIDENCE does for feelings... read more

Poetry. Cross-Genre. Asian American Studies. Bhanu Kapil's BAN EN BANLIEUE follows a brown (black) girl as she walks home from school in the first moments of a riot. An April night in London, in 1979, is the axis of this startling work of overlapping arcs and varying approaches. ... read more

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Lisa Rose Bradford. Bilingual Edition. "why beneath the glory of this sun / do i sorrow like an ox?" A bull awakes one day to the realization that he's a castrated, browbeaten ox but is then briefly abstracted from this sorrow... read more

Literary Nonfiction. Art. Fiction. Poetry. SELECTED TWEETS by Mira Gonzalez and Tao Lin, dating from 2008 to 2014, as well as extras such as illustrations of each other's tweets, short stories, essays, and a long poem... read more

Poetry. POEM WITHOUT SUFFERING is a book-length elegy, composed in slow motion alongside the path of a .224-inch, jacketed hollow point bullet-one that's been fired into the bodies of at least two children, maybe more. Combining Alice Notley with a ballistics report, Tobias Wolff with Antonin Artaud, Kaplan's relentless examination of grief evokes a poetics through which...read more