Echo tree

African futurism, gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner-space fiction—Dumas’s stories form a vivid, expansive portrait of Black life in America.Henry Dumas’s fabulist fiction is a masterful synthesis of myth and religion, culture and nature, mask and identity, the pr...

Leaving the atocha station

From a National Book Award finalist, this hilarious and profound first novel captures the angst of the young American abroad.

A complex sentence

In A Complex Sentence, Marjorie Welish builds immersive intertextual environments as she questions the canon of modernist poetry and the ways we talk about poetics.In her sixth collection with Coffee House, Welish continues to explore rhetorical practices such as diagramming, inscription, and quo...

Blood dazzler

A storm's-eye view of the devastation that forever changed New Orleans and America.

Homes

Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior HOMES. Moheb Soliman traces the coast of the Great Lakes with postmodern poems, exploring the natural world, the experience of belonging, and the formation of identity along borders.Moheb Soliman’s HOMES maps the shoreline of the Great Lakes from the rocky...

Tell me how it ends

A damning confrontation between the American dream and the reality of undocumented children seeking a new life in the US.

The breaks

A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world.In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh writes toward a tender vision of the world, offering children’s radical embrace of possibility as a model for how we might live. In order to survive loo...

Comemadre

Literary Latin American Flatliners: a smart, engrossing, and darkly funny novel experimenting with where life and love begin and end.On the outskirts of Buenos Aires in 1907, Doctor Quintana pines for head nurse Menéndez while he and his colleagues embark on a grisly series of experiments to inve...

Written after a massacre in the year 2018

National Book Award winner Daniel Borzutzky pens an incandescent indictment of capitalism’s moral decay.In Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018, Daniel Borzutzky rages against the military industrial complex that profits from violence, against the unjust policing of certain bodies, against x...

Reel bay

Equal parts memoir, mystery, reclaimed screenplay, and travelogue, Reel Bay charts Jana Larson’s unusual journey toward understanding another woman's life.What was Takako Konishi really doing in North Dakota, and why did she end up dead? Did she get lost and freeze to death, as some locals conclu...

Glass houses

If you can laugh at--or with--Minnesotans, this is your book.

Catch light

Delicately rhapsodic meditations on light, photography, and perception.

The cosmopolitan

Ornate miniature travelogues full of adventure and philosophical intrigue.These poems spin tales of traveling in a world both romantic and politicized, a world miniaturized by globalization and haunted by the figure of the cosmopolitan, who is aware of its saturated history, yet inspired by the k...

Voice-over

Synthesizing twenty years of influences, Equi constructs a collage of voices—undoubtedly American, exquisitely her own.“Nothing needs usbut we needa lot of reassurancebefore we can reassurethose things we thoughtwe needed that they exist too.”

Niagara

Watson's sparkling, delightful new novel--about a French tightrope walker and a widowed Nebraska schoolteacher who meet in Niagara Falls, N.Y., become lovers, perform daredevil stunts and go their separate ways--is a witty meditation on miscommunication between the sexes.--Publishers Weekly [star...

Wise fish

A lyrical dance of English, Spanish, and African dialects infuses these poems of myth and migration.Laced with Afro-Caribbean history and myth and interspersed with Spanish, Yoruba, and Lukumi dialects, these poems create a poetic atlas of cultures as they document the centuries-long, open-sea mi...

Sarah - of fragments and lines

Set to the music of rain, these shattered elegies seek communion in the ethereal place between birth and death.

Twelve branches

Four writers gather stories from the people of St. Paul and weave them into this beautiful collection.What happens when a city gets together, not to read a book, but to write one? Twelve Branches: Stories from St. Paul began as an innovative, artistic project meant to bring together city resident...

Mark ford: selected poems

An exuberant, versatile, and complex debut US collection from one of the United Kingdom's most respected poets.

House of coates

The life and photographs of Lester B. Morrison, legendary recluse. Can a man living in the shadows find redemption?

Bleed through

The best of Davidson’s forty-year career, these poems grapple with larger philosophical questions through the sieve of language and form.

Dance

DANCE is poetry as performance, precarious and joyful, a three-part journey through hell, earth, and paradise.

Rounding the human corners

"Linda Hogan's vision is breathtaking."--Barbara Kingsolver

Teahouse of the almighty

A National Poetry Series winner, chosen by Edward Sanders.From Lollapalooza to Carnegie Hall, Patricia Smith has taken the stage as this nation’s premier performance poet. Featured in the film Slamnation and on the HBO series Def Poetry Jam, Smith is back with her first book in over a decade—a Na...

An impenetrable screen of purest sky

Tree of Life meets In Search of Lost Time in this contemporary tale of loss and the power of story.

How a mother weaned her girl from fairy tales

Elegantly simple fairy tales where nonsense is as commonplace as violence from a master of the form.

Off we go into the wild blue yonder

A picturesque story of modern love, old flames, and the long shadow of history.

Skirt full of black

A remarkable debut exploring the Korean adoptee experience and expanding linguistic boundaries through lyric collage.

The baltimore atrocities

A whodunit without the who, this illustrated compendium of mayhem and misfortune spirals out from an investigation into two disappearances.The Baltimore Atrocities is a mordant, deadpan collection of more than one hundred murders, betrayals, heartbreaks, suicides, and bureaucratic snafus—each wit...

Cranial guitar

Shoulda been jimi savannah

National Book Award finalist Patricia Smith chronicles the Great Migration through Motown music and Chicago streets.

The play and other stories

These tough urban tales present characters beset by bizarre bureaucracies, real and imagined city violence, and private hells of their own making. A man who witnesses a baby falling to its death from an apartment building begins to hallucinate his own child tumbling from his apartment window—he f...

Entrepôt

Missives from the entrepôt--or port city--where civilization trades in art, love, and war.

Open line

A roller-coaster ride through mass hysteria, media exploitation, and dirty politics.

You and three others are approaching a lake

A sharp-witted investigation of love, work, and human responsibility in the age of consumption and hyperexposure.In a world where we find “everything helping itself / to everything else,” Anna Moschovakis incorporates Craigslist ads, technobabble, twentieth-century ethics texts, scientific resear...

In the futurity lounge / asylum for indeterminacy

Welish fuses poetry with visual art and architecture.

Glory goes and gets some

An ironic, streetwise journey through disease, despair, sex, and addiction.

Drawing the line

Inada hip hops from Buddhism to Soul, the mountains to jazz, concentration camps to Charlie Parker.

Things i must have known

An exuberant, generous collection touching on creativity and fatherhood, racism and workplace politics, A.B. Spellman’s poems address the most important personal and public events of the last seventy years—of how it felt to grow up Black in a segregated America, of the transformational experience...

Four incarnations

From street-gang punk, to navy recruit, to rent-a-Santa, a collection of poems celebrating the possibilities of the individual.

Garner

A haunting tale of morality, murder, and the undertow of secrets in a small New Hampshire town.

A .38 special and a broken heart

Critically acclaimed novelist Jonis Agee continues the popular Coffee-To-Go Series with stories grappling with heartbreak, anger, betrayal, and survival.Honest, biting, and bittersweet, A .38 Special and a Broken Heart is a rich collection of stories told by critically acclaimed author Jonis Agee...

Because why

Immersed in botanical insight, Fox's experimentations with language and life illuminate this accomplished debut.

How we speak to one another

The best of Essay Daily—each a writer in conversation with and about an essay, whatever its variety, contemporary and classic.

The last warner woman

The American debut of a Caribbean literary talent often compared to Orange Prize winner Andrea Levy and Alexander McCall Smith.Adamine Bustamante is born in one of Jamaica’s last leper colonies. When Adamine grows up, she discovers she has the gift of “warning”: the power to protect, inspire, and...

Ray of the star

An atmospherically intense love story and a thrilling, fantastical tale of lost souls in peril.

The architecture of language

Full of rhythm and big-breath lines, Troupe’s poetry explodes from the page, capturing the spirit of America.Inspired by contemporary art, music, literature, and sports, Troupe dismantles the dangerously clichéd, wooden rhetoric saturating our national discourse and rebuilds the language in poems...

You never know

Ron Padgett’s playful, nonchalant poetry is all delightful circumstance without the pomp.Ron Padgett’s playful work is all circumstance without the pomp. You Never Know captures the joy and curiosity of a writer whose easy, nonchalant style displays the unfeigned fascination of the forever young....

In the shadow of al-andalus

"[Victor Hernández Cruz's work] is a testament to [his] singular genius."—Griffin Poetry Prize citation

How to be perfect

Required reading for humans.