After rubén

After Rubén is both trajectory and mosaic—a conversation around poetry in the Americas.

High skies

<p><em>High Skies</em> recounts the collision of devastating weather, Cold War suspicion, tense race relations, and the unintended consequences of good intentions in a small West Texas town.</p>

Bright stain

Unapologetically sensual and forthright, Bell explores desire, loss, faith, doubt, tenderness, and violence; and sex as experience, metaphor, and magnifying lens for relationships. Bright Stain may or may not become the Sex and the City of poetry, but this knock-your-socks-off debut will likely ...

Steller's orchid

A packet of letters discovered in the frame of an eighteenth-century Chinese painting starts a search in western Alaska for a remarkable orchid.

Toward antarctica

Toward Antarctica is an innovating lyric travelogue of photographs and writing by poet-naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield. A book that challenges, documents, and queries one of the most iconic wild corners of the world, any reader with a passion for poetry and worldly excursions will delight in Bradf...

Don't go crazy without me

Don’t Go Crazy Without Me tells the tragicomic coming of age story of a girl who grew up under the magnetic spell of her outrageously eccentric father.

Exuberance

These dazzling poems are set in the earliest years of American aviation when daredevil pilots—women and men—thrilled spectators who had never seen an airplane.

The likely world

Single mom Mellie has just emerged from a shattering addiction to the memory drug, cloud, when a stranger who may be her baby’s father appears with a dangerous agenda.

The rib joint

Exploring the hazy line that can exist between friendship and desire, this memoir-in-essays is a coming out story that chronicles the childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood of Julia Koets, who grows up entrenched in religion in a small town in the South.

In the key of new york city

In this lively and deeply affecting memoir, Rebecca McClanahan tracks the heartbeat of New York as only a stunned newcomer can: in overheard conversations on park benches, songs and cries sifted through apartment walls, and in encounters with street people dispensing unexpected wisdom. Having upr...

Patter

For a couple struggling with infertility, conception is a war against their bodies. Blood and death attend. But when the war is won, and life stares, hungry, in the parents’ faces, where does that violence, anxiety, and shame go? The poems in Patter re-imagine miscarriages as minstrel shows, magi...

Ghost orchid

Among the goddesses

Eat less water

The solution to worldwide water shortages is in our kitchens.

Pretzel, houdini & olive: essays on the dogs of my life

A young widow and her five dogs confront life.

We need to talk: a memoir about wealth

Peripheral vision

Called “grand and almost terrifying” by The New Yorker, poet Susan Kinsolving will show you why.

The way a line hallucinates its own linearity

Intimate and incantatory, The Way a Line Hallucinates its Own Linearity is a hypnotic and visceral experience.

Singer come from afar

Singer Come from Afar, by Kim Stafford, offers poems that challenge, sustain, and forgive.

Old guy: superhero

From former Missouri Poet Laureate William Trowbridge comes the full and final seriocomic saga of over-the-hill superhero Oldguy and his Quixotic misadventures, with comic book art by Tim Mayer.

Banjo grease

Intriguing, Interlocking Stories

Fire summer

Fire Summer, an interplay of the fantastic and philosophical, illuminates the interconnectedness of lives, following four characters and a cat as they journey through an enduring land, from their fortuitous first meetings to love’s final acts.

Like wings, your hands

Both a philosophical novel and a coming-of-age story, Like Wings, Your Hands explores a mother-son relationship in the context of disability and interdependence.

Living things

A kaleidoscopic portrait of a rural Southern town where tragedy is met with candles, hymns, and the urge to leave and never look back.

The diviners

A book-length poem that brilliantly reinvents narrative poetry, The Diviners is a single poem divided into five chapters, each a different decade. McDowell relates the most crucial developments in each decade spanning from the 1950s through 1990s, of the shared lives of Al, Eleanor, and their son...

Transatlantic connections

Theresa Welford's Trans-Atlantic Connections: The Movement and New Formalism is the first book to explore the important connections between the brash young British writers who coalesced into a controversial poetic and critical movement in the 1950s and the brash young American writers who coalesc...

Deciduous qween

Trees are queer magic; just look at those queens.

Wild honey, tough salt

Wild Honey, Tough Salt gathers citizen poems for tough times—with testaments for world community, spells for peace, earth blessings, and family consolations.

The world began with yes

Celebrating life

Quiet money

This book-length poem chronicles a family’s experience from the 1950s through the 1990s. The 1950s section was selected by Donald Hall for inclusion in the Best American Poetry series. The poet’s first full-length collection, Quiet Money's New Edition consists almost exclusively of longer narrat...

Against the wind

Against the Wind is a story of six characters’ second chances to make things right.

Letters written and not sent

Letters Written and Not Sent is the lifetime work of poet William Louis-Dreyfus, written over decades, culminating a passion for poetry, art and social justice. He passed away just days after the book was completed. Like paperweights, his lyrics are both small and hefty. His subjects range from ...

Flannelwood

How could a wintry heart possess so much summer?

Miraculum monstrum

Winner of the Clarissa Dalloway "Everything But Poetry" Book Prize from the AROHO Foundation, Miraculum Monstrum is a speculative hybrid narrative with vivid images, centering on the life and work of a female artist afflicted with wings.

Meatballs for the people

Meatballs for the People: Proverbs to Chew On is a collection of witty and digestible aphorisms for our times.

Another fine mess

We've gotten into another fine mess, destroying the planet and all. So where will we go next? Is it time to colonize outer space? Acclaimed essayist Pope Brock takes us on a vivid satirical journal to learn just what life might look like living on tomorrow's moon.

Lifesaving for beginners

When her mother suddenly drowns at age sixty-eight, Anne Edelstein, caring for two small children of her own, must grapple with her family’s history of tragic death and mental illness and her unresolved relationship with a distant and criticizing parent she could never really embrace.

Dante in china

In John Barr's poems, the ancient masters encounter the modern world. Dante on a beach in China beholds the Inferno: “Flaring well gas night and day, / towers rise as if to say, / Pollution can be beautiful.” Bach’s final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Ar...

Crosstown

In a place where all the roads that run through infinite possibility come together, a place where nearly anyone or anything can be found, a sorcerer’s search for his master’s killer could undermine the very foundation of reality.

Two-countries

An anthology of flash memoir, personal essays and poetry from sixty-five contributors whose writing illuminates the modern immigrant experience. With work by Richard Blanco, Tina Chang, Joseph Lagaspi, Li-Young Lee, Timothy Liu, Naomi Shihab Nye, Oliver de la Paz, Ira Sukrungruang, Ocean Vuong, a...

Beginner's guide to a head-on collision

In this memoir-in-poems, Sebastian Matthews offers a glimpse into his painful yet transcendental journey of healing a broken body, mending a shattered soul, and the utter zeal of making a layup when you thought that would never again be possible. With honesty and wit, this poetic memoir demonstra...

Southern tongues leave us shining

Winner of the 2016 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, Southern Tongues Leave Us Shining explores the South and its history through the eyes of the living, the dead, and the inbetween.

Bigfoots in paradise

Beauty and terror collide in Doug Lawson’s Bigfoots in Paradise, a wild new collection of stories set largely in and around Santa Cruz, California. Earthquakes rumble, meth labs explode, helicopters search overhead for drug farms while wildfires ravage the hillsides. Blimps crash, mushrooms dream...

Scissors, paper, stone

Winner of the 2016 Quill Prose Award, Scissors, Paper, Stone contemplates the meanings of family through twenty years in the lives of a Korean-American lesbian, her adoptive mother, and her boy-crazy best friend.

The perpetual motion machine

The perpetual motion machine was his experiment; these essays are hers.

Sugar land

Sugar Land is the southern story of Nana Dara, a prison cook at the Imperial State Prison Farm for men in 1923, who—with the help of the blues singer Lead Belly—discovers how to break out of her own physical and emotional prison to become the feisty, lesbian matriarch to a family of Texas misfits...

Another phase

These five-line poems written about Eloise Klein Healy's experience with aphasia awaken the senses with a mind fully engaged with the creative. If we divorce ourselves from the cognitive intellectual process and immerse in the imagination, these are the poems we engender.

Bad stories

If you’re one of the millions of Americans lying awake at night, asking yourself, How did we get here? you need to read Bad Stories. In a short, sharp lamentation, New York Times bestselling author Steve Almond explains why the election of a cruel con artist was not only possible, but inevitable.