Literary Nonfiction. Photography. Southeast Asia Studies. "Radical" (L.A. Times), "poignant" (Boston Globe), "should not be missed (Time), "a notable underground author" (The Onion), and "brilliant" (
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Theory & Criticism. FIELD STATIC is a collection of essays that examine the object through a range of approaches including Object Oriented Philosophy, Semiotics and relig
Poetry. "Not nostalgia transports us here, but the sweet pulse of 'vanished ephemerae,' love of the Voyage, the illumination, and 'throbbing rituals' of a life lived always inside poetry. Tom Clark's
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry History & Criticism. Introduction by Dale Smith. Afterword by Ammiel Alcalay. Called by Andrei Codrescu, "one of the few and great readers of American poetry," Warren p
Poetry. THE PINK reads like a bio-centric futurist work of patterned effeminate lyricism and distortion whose themes are fatherhood, motherhood, and childhood, while playing heartily at inherited them
Poetry. Photography. MY THIN-SKINNED WANDERING embraces image, language and texture through poetry and photography. It is a powerful invitation for the reader to become more than a reader of poems—to
Fiction. When violence erupts on the streets of Paris in May 1968, a hapless international film crew finds itself stranded during the shooting of a preposterous low-budget blue movie about notorious 1
Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the German by David Young. Cover art by the author's wife, Gisele Celan-Lestrange. "Celan's English language readers, and readers to come, will be deeply gra
Poetry. Flarf. "PETROLEUM HAT is natural language for a country at war. Unlike the old model of protest poetry, Drew Gardner isn't interested in earnest appeals to reason and compassion. He'll match t
Drama. Flarf. Gary Sullivan's collection of short plays in PPL IN A DEPOT were first intended for the page and/or screen only, but somehow made their way onto the stage in various productions. This co
Fiction. By Blake Butler and Vanessa Place. Assembled by Christopher Higgs. From the room inside the room, from the house inside the house memories of a one-legged father and various acts of jurisprud
Poetry. Brandon Brown's FLOWERING MALL is not a translation of Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, but it does beautifully perform an alchemical revival of the punk spirit that is French Symbolism. The book r
Poetry. In A NORTH ATLANTIC WALL the poetry is drawn from fieldnotes, ragged prose, some passages displaying a resonant, if fragmentary, intensity. The elements of A NORTH ATLANTIC WALL may appear to
Poetry. African American Studies. PLURAL is an experiential immersion in the daily life of an artist, arts critic and poet who weaves and juxtaposes aesthetic ideas, personal circumstances, philosophi
Poetry. LGBT Studies. With a beauty purged of sweetness, the voices of BUTCHER'S SUGAR sing of the sublime in the debased, violence and desire, the truth of whatever is "rank with the carcass of myste
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Performance. Translated from the Russian by Yelena Kalinsky. Active in Moscow since 1976, the Collective Actions group played a key role in the development of performance art
Poetry. R.H.W. Dillard's long-awaited seventh collection consists of a sequence of fifty-two poems, each sixteen lines long, each addressed to a dead poet or several times to more than one dead poet.
Poetry. THE GOLD THREAD is the most recent book of poetry by Sarah Kennedy. It is an astonishing collection of female saints and holy women speaking to God in a landscape of violence and hope."Sarah K
Poetry. In LIVIDITY, poet Kim Rosenfield works within the outskirts of language, draining it of connotation and excess. Using words and phrases culled from linguistics textbooks and language-learning
Poetry. Fiction. Translated from the German by Rosmarie Waldrop. This volume contains almost all of Elfriede Czurda's first book and all of her second, Fast 1 Leben. Czurda comes out of the experiment