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Ampersand Revisited

Simeon Berry

• Paperback | Engels | National Poetry
• Berry's Ampersand Revisted is a lurid, lyrical trio of open prose poems marking up the blueprint of familial myth-making. Lees meer

Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast

Hannah Gamble

• Paperback | Engels | National Poetry
• "Like the favorite daughters of a Sufi master, these liberating poems love contradiction and whirling, and intimacy--their seriousness is droll, their... Lees meer

In the Laurels, Caught

Lee Ann Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Fence Modern Poets
• In the Laurels, Caught is a collection of lighthearted, deep-rooted poems written around the Appalachian region of North Carolina in Madison County. A... Lees meer

Cold Genius

Aaron Kunin

• Paperback | Engels
• The United Fruit Company during the Cold War; two myths about the discovery of laughter. Tender love lyrics in a domestic setting; vows of love are ex... Lees meer

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 2

Paul Legault

• Paperback | Engels
• In 1975 John Ashbery published Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror and the book won the three major American prizes--the Pulitzer, the National Book Awar... Lees meer

My Not-My Soldier

Jennifer MacKenzie

• Paperback | Engels | Fence Modern Poets
• Winner of the 2014 Fence Modern Poets Series. Jennifer Mackenzie's debut is an unfettered travelogue of embodied intellect and flights of gorgeous obs... Lees meer

Percussion Grenade: Poems & Plays

Joyelle McSweeney

• Paperback | Engels
• Music and drama as weapons of productive destruction. This collection by prize-winning, massively influential literary star Joyelle McSweeney explodes... Lees meer

The Racial Imaginary

• Paperback | Engels
• "To think of creativity in terms of transcendence is itself specific and partial--a lovely dream perhaps, but an inhuman one. "It is not only white wr... Lees meer

Zirconia

Chelsey Minnis

• Paperback | Engels
• Winner of the 2001 Alberta Prize, Chelsey Minnis' book represents a progressive yet individualized position in the galaxy of truly contemporary poetry... Lees meer

88 Sonnets

Clark Coolidge

• Paperback | Engels | Fence Modern Poets
• Coolidge's embrace of the sonnet form - a continuation of the project begun in On the Nameways and Alien Tatters - is a gemlike amalgam of narrative u... Lees meer

Prayer and Parable

Paul Maliszewski

• Paperback | Engels
• "You want me to tell you what sets Maliszewski apart? The answer is probity. The answer also is decency. Here's another answer: modesty, tact, exactit... Lees meer

The Network

Jena Osman

• Paperback | Engels
• "Jena Osman subjects American history to a rhizomatic genealogy. What she finds . . . are the foundational, intersecting forces of slavery, finance, a... Lees meer

Inter Arma

Lauren Shufran

• Paperback | Engels | Motherwell Prize
• This debut collection takes its title from a maxim of Cicero's that, translated loosely as "In times of war the law falls silent," has been effective ... Lees meer

The Lost Novel

James Shea

• Paperback | Engels
• James Shea's first book Star in the Eye won the Fence Modern Poets Series, and garnered widespread acclaim with rave reviews in the Times Literary Sup... Lees meer

Living Must Bury

Josie Sigler

• Paperback | Engels
• " Living Must Bury is a powerhouse, a slaughterhouse, a cathouse-oracle of a first book. Josie Sigler's incantatory poems build in yawps of collage th... Lees meer

June

Daniel Brenner

• Paperback | Engels
• June takes up the whirlpooling, epic project of Daniel Brenner's prizewinning The Stupefying Flashbulbs . Narrative emerges despite the "pleasurable o... Lees meer

Undergloom

Prageeta Sharma

• Paperback | Engels
• Taking its title from the descent into Hell in the opening passage of Homer's Iliad--"and crowded brave souls into the undergloom"--Prageeta Sharma's ... Lees meer

A Book Beginning What and Ending Away

Clark Coolidge

• Paperback | Engels
• "A modern-day Rosetta Stone, Book Beginning What and Ending Away bridges the wild conceptual experimentalism of the 1960s and the rigid, doctrine-driv... Lees meer

Colony Collapse Metaphor

Philip Jenks

• Paperback | Engels
• "Into the deeper shoals of syntax strolls Philip Jenks, sans machete, instead with a watering can filled to the brim with acto-juice precisely calcula... Lees meer

Dead Ahead

Ben Doller

• Paperback | Engels
• "In Dead Ahead Ben Doller mixes the propositional logic of analytical philosophy with the brightly festooned cultural logic of Marianne Moore or John ... Lees meer

Journal of Ugly Sites and Other Journals

Stacy Szymaszek

• Paperback | Engels | Ottoline Prize
• Stacy Szymaszek's free-range attention is fixed on what is just underfoot and just in the line of sight: the replete objects of homely desire, homely ... Lees meer

My God Is This a Man

Laura Sims

• Paperback | Engels
• "Laura Sims is a startlingly original poet whose work goes very deep, like a well made of animal and human bones mortared together with rubber tires, ... Lees meer

Coeur de Lion

Ariana Reines

• Paperback | Engels
• Now that I am not addressing you But the "you" of poetry I am probably doing something horrible and destructive. But this "I" is the I of poetry And i... Lees meer

A Map Predetermined and Chance

Laura Wetherington

• Paperback | Engels | National Poetry
• "Identified, pressed, touched 'repeatedly or restlessly, ' pleasured, hankered after, pointed at with the finger. Laura Wetherington means everything,... Lees meer