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  • Heliotropes
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    Heliotropes

    Ryoko Sekiguchi, Sarah O'Brien

    Set in a Portuguese garden, with attention to proper names and their power, these poems reconstruct plant and animal worlds.

    $14.00
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  • Collapsible Poetics Theater
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    Collapsible poetics theater

    Rodrigo Toscano

    "Rodgrigo Toscano's Collapsible Poetics Theater is a genre-expanding force to be reckoned with."--Marjorie Welish

    $19.00
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  • The Orphan & Its Relations
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    The orphan & its relations

    Elizabeth Robinson

    "This book knows the state of us, and that we can, sometimes, make beauty, even meaning out of grief."--Rebecca Brown

    $15.00
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  • Unspoiled Air
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    Unspoiled air

    Kaisa Ullsvik Miller

    Ullsvik Miller's debut collection affirms the reader's need for a daily massaging of profanely innocuous, even corporate language into meaning.

    $15.00
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  • Rogue Hemlocks
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    Rogue hemlocks

    Carl Martin

    "Each of his poems is a singular disturbance in the matrix of contemporary poetry."

    $16.00
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  • 19 Names for Our Band
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    19 names for our band

    Jibade-Khalil Huffman

    "With their syntactic sleight-of-hand, these poems trouble the space between history and nostalgia. A seriously playful and arresting new voice."

    $15.00
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  • The Mandarin
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    The mandarin

    Aaron Kunin

    "The Mandarin requires the strictest attention; its pace is quick, odd and askew but careful not to exhaust."

    $19.95
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  • Infamous Landscapes
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    Infamous landscapes

    Prageeta Sharma

    Sharma turns away from Romanticism with a certain disconcerted, feminine shame, one that finds her peering through a gendered lens.

    $15.00
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  • The Cow
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    The cow

    Ariana Reines

    "Beyond brilliant, The Cow is a manifesto of the paradoxical girl-state in which disappearance beckons through presence."—Chris Kraus This text is filthy and fertilized, filling and emptying, filling and emptying, atrocious and politic with meaning. The Cow is a mother, a lover, and a murdered l...

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    $15.95
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  • Eyelid Lick
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    Eyelid lick

    Donald Dunbar

    Winner of the 2012 Fence Modern Poets Series, this book is charged with ecstatic yet gritty humor and hyperkinetic desire.

    $15.95
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  • Your Invitation to a Modest Breakfast
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    Your invitation to a modest breakfast

    Hannah Gamble

    Fables of selfhood in the form of whirling yet intimate poems, from the latest winner of the National Poetry Series.

    $15.95
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  • 88 Sonnets
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    88 sonnets

    Clark Coolidge

    One of America's most idiosyncratic and quixotic poets returns to form with this collection of relentless, hilarious, and visionary sonnets.

    $15.95
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  • Mercury
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    Mercury

    Ariana Reines

    Ariana Reines returns with more of her elegant, blisteringly direct attention to culture, lovers, and the deep image.

    $16.95
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  • Prayer and Parable
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    Prayer and parable

    Paul Maliszewski

    Paul Maliszewski assembles a world of searchers, worriers, and talkers kept at the brink of prayer by dilemma and hope.

    $15.95
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  • The Sore Throat & Other Poems
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    The sore throat & other poems

    Aaron Kunin

    "How about someone from another planet?"--Peter Gizzi"This would make a great chorus for 'Nosferatu.'"--Marjorie Welish

    $16.00
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  • A Best of Fence, The First Nine Years, Volumes I & II
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    A best of fence, the first nine years, volumes i & ii

    Rebecca Wolff

    This is a compilation of writing from the first nine years of Fence magazine that presents a stunningly eclectic compendium.

    $45.00
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  • Duties of an English Foreign Secretary
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    Duties of an english foreign secretary

    Macgregor Card

    "Card's strange embattled voice works upon the ear long after the book is shut."--Publishers Weekly

    $16.00
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  • The Black Automaton
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    The black automaton

    Douglas Kearney

    "Kearney's innovative new collection makes me tremble like a 'mouth and mind full of fish hooks.'"--Terrance Hayes

    $17.00
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