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The prose poems in Carlo Matos’s second collection engage questions about the nature of free will: How does one discern fate from one’s choices?
Dean Young’s first book of criticism is a frenetic and subversive meditation on poetry and poetics seemingly inspired by Whitman’s exhortation to “unscrew the locks from the doors! / Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!"
This debut collection is packed with personae the way a forest is packed with trees.
A vibrant and incisive first collection.
In her follow-up to Orchidelirium (2004), Deborah Landau explores a new relationship between the poet and the urban night.
Brandon Shimoda’s O Bon charts the arc of abjection after the death of a grandfather.
Jeffrey Skinner, author of five books of poems, has penned a hilarious yet moving “self-help memoir.”
Poems unafraid to salute our democratic ideals.
A personal and cultural history fit together first as hearing and then as seeing.
Forrest Gander’s latest book injects ethical consequence into his daring sense of the permeability of structure and the instability of form.
After more than a dozen books, Dean Young has become the spokesperson for a certain kind of poetic abandon.
Niels Frank's latest collection is more like an inspired monologue than poems.
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