Fiction. "Chuck Richardson is a master craftsman whose magnificent, long, looping sentences, in their whipping and flitting about, present a world populated by obsessive characters whose absurd deeds
Poetry. "Never in American letters, before ALICE AGES AND AGES, have we seen a thigh at once so elegant and portentous. Upon its surface a filigree of web-like veins—empurpled, cerulean, blood-red, ac
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. "I am most happy to say that this book celebrates the poet Gerald Locklin. It is an homage to Gerald Locklin, a poet whose neck of the woods is the
Poetry. Highsmith writes: "I fly the reclamation run, my scope / an open channel, salvage outfit / irrigation in the shadow maw, a ditch / opposite cowl, vaporetto, motors astride / a lawless plain, p
Poetry. "From political change to pocket change, shipments to shipwrecks, quotations to digital code, Alejandro Crawford never met a morphosis he didn't like, and here in these pages neither will you.
Poetry. "Demcak continues to blossom as a poet of note with ZERO SUMMER, his newest collection of pieces of imagination married to craftsmanship. These poems define lust, desire, onanism, finding and
Poetry. "Janna Plant's mixed genre book (are these diary entries poems or are they stories? are they, in fact, diary entries?) is structured around two fields of metaphor: the refinery and the human b
Poetry. "In these visceral wanderings into Larissa Shmailo's narratives, we venture through the teeming back alleys of Brooklyn on through the poet's labyrinthine youth until we reach the trepidatious
Fiction. Thelonious Horowitz is the next big thing, the Bob Dylan of his times, and he's feeling uninspired. In the past, traveling to music festivals always lifted his spirits. With his band playing
Poetry. "With a winning mixture of verve and tenderness, the poems in THE SPIDER SERMONS confront the extreme significance of our daily lives. It's the most passionate of come-ons, but with the kindes
Poetry. "Gregory Lawless is a visionary of fallen satellites, making revelations of scrap and stray: exiles, astronauts, scarecrows, a gnome, a daughter who will not speak, a pet gryphon and pet rock
Fiction. "John Woods' THE COMPLETE COLLECTION brings the small-town America of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio into conversation with Italo Calvino's fake travelogue, Invisible Cities, and that bo
Langan expertly positions his poems right on the cusp between comprehension and confusion, in that wonderfully liminal state of discovery. Though the poems are often sad, as well as sly, funny, worris
Poetry. "A poetry of genuine ambition reaches as far into the past as it does into the future, creates its forward motion by radicalizing its relation to tradition. What is 'the news' remains always i
Poetry. "Part history, part aesthetic statement, part obsession, HENRI, SOPHIE, & THE HIERATIC HEAD OF EZRA POUND: POEMS BLASTED FROM THE VORTEX is, most of all, a lyrical exploration of life live
Charles Freeland dances under moonlight. The landscape for his delightfully curious insights is visual, symbolic, a work of art and an advanced warning dusted with allusion, playfulness and literary c
Fiction. "In a city that is a dream, or a frontier, or a dystopia, Nel Lowry is our pilgrim whose progress is a search for Bliss, which is a company and the promise of a lifetime position in a place t
"This is about what turns up," writes Sally Ashton in Some Odd Afternoon. What turns up may be the "dangedy-dang twang" of a banjo, a laptop hiding under a hoop skirt, or a living room that becomes a
"epic"—Christian Peet (Tarpaulin Sky, Big American Trip)"Intense and powerful in the way the language and images flow like a raging sea"—Sinan Antoon (author of Iljaam from City Lights)"amazing, such
